Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Uncorrected galley proofs advance reading copy softcover, is in G+ condition, having an almost invisible small crease on front cover; some light surface rubbing/scuffing; slight turn-up at corners, with laminate promising to separate; pages show some age-toning. A novel by Japanese author Murakami is translated into English by Alfred Birnbaum. This novel was Murakami's first American appearance. Fiction. Novel. Japanese. Classics.
Seller: Counterpane Books, Frazier Park, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth-backed boards. Advance reading copy of the first edition in English. The author's third novel, first published in 1982, and his first to be translated into English. Corner tips a bit rubbed, a very good or better copy. (#160279)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Murakami, Haruki. A WILD SHEEP CHASE. Kodansha International, Tokyo and New York, 1989.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Translated by Alfred Birnbaum. 299 pages in excellent, clean, white condition. Endpapers clean. Quarter bound with green cloth over blue boards. Fading on the edges of both boards. Some light wear at the head of the spine. Corners not bumped. Illustrated DJ with grey titles. Edges and spine faded. Yellowing on the top edges of the fold-overs and inner dust jacket. Price clipped. VG/VG-
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Murakami, Haruki. A WILD SHEEP CHASE. Kodansha International, Tokyo, Japan, 1989.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book is in VG condition with light rubbing to edges & covers, light bumping to spine ends else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in VG condition with light rubbing to edges & covers, light bumping to spine ends else bright, intact and whole. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: JB's Book Vault, Buffalo, WY, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: ADVANCE READING COPY. First American edition. Close to fine in pictorial printed wrappers. (Mild crease at bottom tip of front cover. ) Author's first U. S. Publication.
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Murakami, Haruki. A WILD SHEEP CHASE. Kodansha International, Tokyo and New York, 1989.
Price: US$143.75 + shipping
Description: 299 pages in near fine condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Page edges are lightly smudged. Quarterbound in green cloth and blue paper with silver titles on the spine. Lightly worna round the edges. Blue dustjacket in near fine condition. Lightly worn around the edges. 1ST ENGLISH EDITION. NF-/NF-
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo (23.75cm); royal blue paper-covered boards and green cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [iv],[3],4-299,[1]pp. Scattered foxing to text edges, else Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $18.95), without the usual sunning to the spine panel. The publisher's pictorial postcard reproducing the jacket art is laid in. The author's first novel published in English, and the concluding volume in his "Trilogy of the Rat" a magical realist quasi-detective novel inspired by the works of Raymond Chandler. Rubin 3.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition in English. The author's third novel, first published in 1982, and his first to be translated into English. Mild foxing to edges of text block, a nearly fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with light surface rubbing, but no loss of color. The jacket is priced $18.95 on the front flap. (#138757)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Haruki Murakami. A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel. Kodansha, New York / Tokyo, 1989.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: ADVANCE READING COPY. First edition/printing of the Japanese author's first book to be translated into English. A FINE( tiny corner crease to bottom of front panel). appears unread. Becoming uncommon in nice condition !
Seller: THE USUAL SUSPECTS (IOBA), St. Catharines, ON, Canada
Murakami, Haruki.. A WILD SHEEP CHASE.. Tokyo and New York: Kodansha International, (1989) dj, 1989.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover first edition - First US printing. The author's third novel, a literary thriller first published in 1982, and his first book to be translated into English. "It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance companys advertisement. What he doesnt realize is that included in the pastoral scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man in black who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. Thus begins a surreal and elaborate quest that takes our hero from the urban haunts of Tokyo to the remote and snowy mountains of northern Japan, where he confronts not only the mythological sheep, but the confines of tradition and the demons deep within himself." Winner of the 1982 Noma Literary Newcomer's Prize. Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum. 299 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket (lamination flaw at bottom of front cover of dj. some rubbing to the dj)
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$172.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover; 8vo; 299 pages. FIRST EDITION in English. Quarter bound in green cloth with blue sidepapers. Silver titles on spine. Lightly rubbed edges. Bright and clean pages. In an illustrated jacket with silver and white titles. NPC. Sunned spine and top-edge. Light shelfwear to back. NF/VG
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Murakami, Haruki. A Wild Sheep Chase. Kodansha Internationall, Tokyo; New York, 1989.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine in price-clipped else fine dustjacket. Japanese author's English-language debut. Translated by Alfred Birnbaum. Originally published Japan, 1982. An attractive, collectible copy.
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Price: US$230.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 299 pp. Very slight touch of sunning to edges of boards and faint tanning to jacket flaps, but a lovely copy.
Seller: Passages Bookshop, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Haruki Murakami. A Wild Sheep Chase. Kodansha International, Tokyo And New York, 1989.
Price: US$240.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine first US edition of this great book by Japan's leading novelist. Book is clean throughout with no interior marks. Jacket is clean and fresh and is not price clipped. Very light soiling to page edges is the only flaw. Protected in Brodart cover for shipping.
Seller: BDC Books, Stratford, ON, Canada
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth-backed boards. Advance reading copy of the first edition in English. The author's third novel, first published in 1982, and his first to be translated into English. A fine copy. (#138232)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Advance reading copy of the first edition in English. The author's third novel, first published in 1982, and his first to be translated into English. A fine copy. (#128600)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Murakami, Haruki.. A WILD SHEEP CHASE.. KODANSHA., TOKYO/NY, 1989.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (Barely discernable hint of foxing at top edge. Tiny damp spot at base of spine on interior of dust jacket. No affect on book. ) ; 6 1/4" X 9 1/2"; 299 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Murakami, Haruki. A Wild Sheep Chase. Kodansha Internationall, Tokyo; New York, 1989.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine in unclipped, very lightly rubbed but still fine dustjacket (mylar-protected) with one tiny closed edgetear at top tip (with dj protector in place not noticeable). Japanese author's English-language debut. Translated by Alfred Birnbaum. Originally published Japan, 1982. An attractive, collectible copy.
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Murakami, Haruki.. A Wild Sheep Chase.. Kodansha International, Tokyo and New York, 1989.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First American Edition, First printing. Originally published first in Japanese in 1982. A Very Fine copy in a Very Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with promotional post card and publisher's list leaflet laid in. 299pp. Translated by Alfred Birnbaum. A likely candidate for the Nobel Prize. Q17268
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Haruki Murakami. A WILD SHEEP CHASE A Novel. Kodansha International, Tokyo, 1989.
Price: US$449.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Foxing on text block edges ; 9.1 X 6.1 X 1.1 inches; 299 pages.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.89 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First impression of the first American edition. Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum. Stated First American Edition. ***The American edition is the first edition in English, originally published in Japan by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo in 1982 as "Hitsuji o meguru boken [literally "An Adventure Surrounding Sheep"]. Published as an independent sequel to "Pinball, 1973", and the third book in the so-called "Trilogy of the Rat". Winner of the 1982 Noma Literary Newcomer's Prize. ***Near fine in purple paper-covered boards with a bright-green cloth-covered spine, with silver titles. The titles are still nice and bright. Head and tail of spine just very slightly creased. Boards clean and unmarked, with just a little fading to the purple colour at the extremities. Page block edges also nice and clean, including the fore-edge. Internally near fine, with no tears or creases, and the paper still white. No inscriptions. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***In a near fine illustrated dustwrapper, that has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of $18.95. The top and tail of the dustwrapper are slightly creased. The dustwrapper would be fine except for some fading to the dark-blue colour on the spine and at the top edge of the front panel. Dustwrapper nevertheless bright. ***In addition, the dustwrapper retains the Japanese wraparound band which was included for publicity purposes when the book was first published in the USA. The book also comes with the original Kodansha Fiction Pamphlet and Wild Sheep Chase Postcard. There are also a couple of photocopied newspaper articles from the period when the book was published in 1989. [Please see scans] ***235 mm x 160 mm. 299 pages. ***'While the original story of "A Wild Sheep Chase" was set in the 1970s, translator Alfred Birnbaum and Kodansha editor Elmer Luke wanted a story that was more contemporary and also appealed to American readers. In the novel, Murakami blends elements of American and English literature with Japanese contexts, exploring post-WWII Japanese cultural identity. The book is part mystery and part magical realism with a postmodern twist. The book is the third in Murakami's '"The Rat" Trilogy', preceded by "Hear the Wind Sing" and "Pinball, 1973". All three books follow the sometimes surreal adventures of an unnamed first-person narrator and his friend, nicknamed 'The Rat'. All three novels begin from or refer back to November 25, 1970, the day on which Japanese author, poet, playwright and right-wing activist Yukio Mishima committed seppuku following a failed coup attempt at the headquarters of Japan's Self Defense Forces. Some Japanese critics have speculated that "A Wild Sheep Chase" is a rewriting or parody of Mishima's The Adventure of Natsuko. "A Wild Sheep Chase" has been described as "a postmodern detective novel in which dreams, hallucinations and a wild imagination are more important than actual clues.' [Wiki] ***First impression of the first American edition - the first edition in English translation, in the original dustwrapper. With the additional benefit of having the original (and uncommon) Japanese wraparound band, and the publisher's inserts, as well as a couple of loosely inserted photocopies of period newspaper articles. Of interest to collectors of the work of Haruki Murakami. Uncommon in first edition, and particularly hard to find with these additional attributes. A real collector's copy. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom