Description
For sale: an extremely rare Signed first hardcover edition, first printing of First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami in a new archival wrap. First Edition stated, 2021 Knopf. First Printing without any subsequent printing. Jacket and book 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. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with the author’s handwritten signature in Japanese characters above his printed name in English on the publisher’s special page without any other marks, inscriptions, or signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
The dust jacket is also in Fine condition, with the complete price on the front flap and no signs of wear that l
The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator may or may not be Murakami himself. Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides.
Philosophical and mysterious, the stories in First Person Singular all touch beautifully on love and solitude, childhood and memory. . . all with a signature Murakami twist.
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