""A Pale View of Hills"" by Kazuo Ishiguro. Faber & Faber, London. 1982 first UK edition first printing. Inscribed by author on title page. Book and first issue dust jacket in good condition, ownership name to first free end paper, very light foxing and dusting to edges, slight discolouration to spine of dust jacket. A Pale View of Hills (1982) is the first novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Kazuo Ishiguro. It won the 1982 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. He received a £1000 advance from publishers Faber and Faber for the novel after a meeting with Robert McCrum, the fiction editor. The elusive first edition that was released in a very small initial printing, and rarely comes along signed.