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Murakami, Haruki. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1997.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Advanced excerpt of the first edition of Murakami's heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, "To Stephen, Haruki Murakami 10/19/97" and additionally signed three times by the jacket illustrator Chip Kidd; once on the front panel, on the title page and on the back panel. In fine condition. Cover design by Chip Kidd. Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin. A unique example. "A beguiling sense of mystery suffuses The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and draws us irresistibly and ever deeper into the phantasmagoria of pain and memory. . . . Compelling [and] convincing" (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Haruki Murakami. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
Price: US$3876.52 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: MURAKAMI, Haruki. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1997. First American edition. Trans. Jay Rubin. An excellent example of this exceptional, perfect novel, considered by most Murakami collectors as his finest novel. This copy signed without dedication by the author in English. Bound in the publishers stunning blue decorated boards with the dust jacket by Chip Kidd. Housed in a fabulous custom wooden slipcase by Oklahoma artist, Lewis Durdin. The slipcase exceptionally hand-painted with motifs of the novel, of wells and a missing cat. The book about fine with a small split to second endpaper, in a fine unclipped dust jacket. A very attractive volume.
Seller: Deep Neutral Books, York, ENGLA, United Kingdom
Murakami, Haruki. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1997.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Murakami's heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by Haruki Murakami in English and in Japanese and additionally signed three times by the jacket illustrator Chip Kidd; once on the front panel, on the half-title page and on the rear jacket flap. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin. A unique example. "A beguiling sense of mystery suffuses The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and draws us irresistibly and ever deeper into the phantasmagoria of pain and memory. . . . Compelling [and] convincing" (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.