Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of Wind/Pinball by Haruki Murakami in a new archival wrap. First Edition stated, 2015 Knopf. First Printing without subsequent printing. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
The book is in Fine hardcover with clean, bright boards, clean page blocks, no spine tilt, strong spine ends, no edge wear and strong corners. No marks or inscriptions inside. Pages clean and bright.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with the price on the front flap and mild edge wear looks great in a new archival wrap.
In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two remarkable short novels—Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973—that launched the career of one of the most acclaimed authors of our time.These powerful, at times surreal, works about two young men coming of age—the unnamed narrator and his friend the Rat—are stories of loneliness, obsession, and eroticism. They bear all the hallmarks of Murakami’s later books, and form the first two-thirds, with A Wild Sheep Chase, of the trilogy of the Rat.
Widely available in English for the first time ever, newly translated, and featuring a new introduction by Murakami himself, Wind/Pinball gives us a fascinating insight into a great writer’s beginnings.
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