Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. First Edition stated, 1997 Knopf. First Printing with 1997 on both copyright and title pages and no subsequent printing on the copyright page.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on a straight spine, some smudges on page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, rolled and lightly rubbed spine ends, moderate edge wear, . The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with the ghost of an erased price on the first free end paper. No other 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 Near Fine condition with mild surface wear, moderate edge wear, and a small crease on each flap. First state jacket with striking Chip Kidd design, and the $25.95 price on the front flap. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
Japan’s most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this 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.
In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a malevolent yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan’s forgotten campaign in Manchuria.
Gripping, prophetic, suffused with comedy and menace, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force equal in scope to the masterpieces of Mishima and Pynchon.
Ships promptly in corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
