first edition
2005 · New York
by Haruki Murakami
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First American Edition, stated. Octavo. 436 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Beige and blue boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges with an abrasion to rear panel. Boards show light shelfwear; slight lean to boards and binding sound; pages unmarked. A Very Good or Better copy of Murakami's widely lauded tenth novel, following Kafka Tamura and Nakata on a mysterious odyssey as they encounter a conversational cat and a Hegel-quoting sex worker on their journey, peppered throughout with, of course, musings on music, dreams, and fate. (Inventory (truncated)