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Haruki Murakami [Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum]. DANCE DANCE DANCE [First UK edition PBO]. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1994.

Price: US$58.51 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First impression of the first UK edition with number-string sequence including the no. "1" on the publisher's copyright prelims-page: 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Published in the UK as a paperback original. The book was published in hardback in the USA by Kodansha International, also in 1994. ***Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum. ***Very good in matt black card covers with white titles to the spine and the front cover. The covers are unmarked - however, there are reading creases to the spine which is also rolled from reading. There is also a crease to the lower corner of the front cover, and another to the top corner of the back cover. With some lighter creasing to the edges also. No inscriptions. No foxing. Pages clean and bright. There is a publisher's 'Damaged' stamp to the bottom edge of the page block. ***In a very good illustrated dustwrapper which has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's price of £9.99. No tears. Very slight fading to the spine of the dustwrapper. Very slight creasing at the edges of the dustwrapper. Dustwrapper clean, crisp and bright. ***393 pages. 215 mm x 135 mm. ***'Haruki Murakami was hailed as "a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wise man" on publication of "A Wild Sheep Chase" in 1988, establishing him as Japan's bestselling novelist and a writer of international repute. Here in "Dance Dance Dance" Murakami continues the tale of an ordinary man on an extraordinary journey. Now in his mid-thirties, our hero lives in a world glittering with technology and success. Yet in his dreams his ex-lover Kiki calls to him. So from the urban haunts of Tokyo he returns to northern Hokkaido to the Dolphin Hotel, where the girl with the most beautiful ears in the world mysteriously vanished, only to find it unaccountably transformed. And some things just don't ring true. ***Bizarre, surreal and totally unpredictable, "Dance Dance Dance" is also a witty satire on the loss of the individual's identity, and will reaffirm Murakami's reputation as an extraordinary writer.' Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper. ***'Murakami emerges as a wholly original talent'. [Publishers Weekly] Review quote taken from back panel of dustwrapper. ***First impression of the first UK edition, published as a paperback original. Uncommon to find now in first printing. ***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

Murakami, Haruki (novel); Birnbaum, Alfred (translation). DANCE DANCE DANCE: A NOVEL. Kodansha International, Tokyo & New York, 1994.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); black paper and cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in yellow on spine; dustjacket; [vi],393,[1]pp. Scattered foxing to text edges, else Near Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $22.00). The author's fourth book and third novel to be translated into English, originally published as Dansu Dansu Dansu by Kodansha in 1988. Rubin 11.

Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.