Description
For sale is a Rare and exceptional First Edition First Printing hardcover copy of Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami in a new archival wrap.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, illustrated boards, strong title ink on a straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, strong spine ends, mild edge wear, and rounded and bumped corners. The interior of the book is also in Fine condition with marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
The dust jacket is in Very Good condition with mild surface and heavy edge wear and two 1″ tears repaired with acid-free tape. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the valley, a precocious thirteen-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt during World War II in Vienna, a pit in the woods behind the artist’s home, and an underworld haunted by Double Metaphors. A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art—as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby—Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers.
Ships promptly in a corrugated mailer with the book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
