Murakami, Haruki. 1Q84.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2011.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this work by the award-winning author. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Signed three times by legendary jacket designer Chip Kidd, once on the front jacket panel, once on the title page and again on the rear jacket panel. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design and illustration by Chip Kidd. "Murakami is like a magician who explains what hes doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers . . . But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it's the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves" (The New York Times Book Review).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1850.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition, first printing. Signed by Haruki Murakami in Japanese above his rubber-stamped name on a tipped in sheet. Near Fine with light rubbing to boards, faint reading creases to spine, light bumping to corners, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. A fantastic copy.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.