A PALE VIEW OF HILLS

New York: Putnam, 1982. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Putnam, New York, First American Edition, First Printing 1982. Ships from Hawaii well packaged with free Priority Mail upgrade.

Hardcover with dust jacket, 183 pp, 8+ x 5+ inches, white boards with teal spine featuring gold titling, jacket (designed by Joel Avirom) has a Japanese illustration within a extra-large "H". Condition is Near Fine in very god dust jacket, the dust jacket has minimal wear at spine top and bottom and some light scratches to dust jacket, otherwise very clean. There is a super small tiny, tiny closed tear on the upper top of the dust jacket on the flap fold and a small fold at the $11.95 jacket price. Unclipped, no remainder marks. 8204 is the code on the bottom of the front jacket flap.
Author's first novel! Stated first American edition, 1982, with no later printings stated,

Fine condition with ex-owner Scott Underwood's name written on the reverse of cover as pictured.

Included as a bonus is a Signed title page of Ishiguro's novel The Unconsoled. It's a bit larger than A Pale View of Hills, but you could easily trim it to your preference and insert into Hills to make it a signed copy.

Very solid book, as pictured. A nice copy of Ishiguro's first book with a bonus signature sheet included. The book won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and the author has subsequently won the Nobel Prize for Literature.