Kafka Shore by Murakami Haruki, Signed (8 results)

Condition: Very Good. ** Number 473 from a Signed Limited Edition of 1000 Copies, Signed by Haruki Murakami **; Very Good++ in a Very Good slipcase; Hardcover; Very light wear to the covers with "straight" edge-corners; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and text pages are all clean and unmarked; The binding is tight with a straight spine; Light wear to the slipcase with minor scuffing to the corners This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 2.1 lbs; White cloth covers with title in black lettering along the spine, housed in a black cloth-covered slipcase with title in silver lettering; 2005, Harvill Press; 656 pages; "Kafka on the Shore," by Haruki Murakami.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. author signed (title page) nf/nf first print, first US edition. very nice copy; no marks, not remaindered, not exlib, dj price intact, first edition stated, nap. fiction hardcover. Signed by Author(s).

Hardback. Condition: As new. No jacket. Limited first edition in English. Limited first edition in English. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 505, [1]. Cream cloth, lettered in black to spine; decorated endpapers. Housed in a black cloth slipcase. Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel, winner of the 2006 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for this effort. Originally published as Umibe no Kafuka in 2002, in a two-volume set by Shinchosha Publishing Co. Ltd, Tokyo. #242/1000 copies signed in English by the author on a tipped-in bookplate. Author's tenth novel. Winner of the 2006 Franz Kafka Prize as well as a 2006 World Fantasy Award. Named as one of the Best Five Fiction Books of the Year in 2005 by the New York Times. Incorporating musical motifs, metaphysics, and the subconscious, an exploration of mythic and contemporary taboos in which a teenage boy's flight from his Oedipal curse crosses paths with an ageing simpleton bearing a wartime affliction. According to Murakami, the secret to understanding this complex novel lies in reading it several times: "Kafka on the Shore contains several riddles, but there aren't any solutions provided. Instead, several of these riddles combine, and through their interaction the possibility of a solution takes shape." "[A] real page-turner, as well as an insistently metaphysical mind-bender." -John Updike, The New Yorker. 1018. signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover first UK printing. Fine in like Dust Jacket with some mild age toning along outer text edge, other wise a very lovely copy. Signed in Japanese by the author on the title page. Dust jacket in protective cover and securely shipped in a box. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. McMurray, Jacob (illustrator). First Edition Thus, Limited, Signed. First edition thus, two volume hardcover set in capped slipcase, signed by Murakami and McMurray, and marked as no. 180/200 on the limitation page, which appears at the end of the second volume. Both books have a very minor lean to their binding, and a hint of wear to their cover corners, but overall, this is a solid, tight, clean and sharp, Near Fine copy of this luxuriously produced two volume set, which is housed in a Very Good+ two-piece slipcase, as issued. The slicpase has some faint rubbing to the cloth, and a touch of lifting starting at the upper right seam of the front piece, additional images are available by request, and higher shipping fees may apply.

8vo, 505pp. A very good hardback copy with some slight yellowing and marking in some places. In a very good slipcase with a small tear to bottom corner. . Limited edition. No. 28 of 1000, signed and numbered by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. 1st edition / 1st printing. Signed slipcased limited edition numbered 385/1000. Some discolouration to spine of book and minor scuffing to slip case. Signed by Author(s).

First edition in English, signed limited issue, number 377 of 1,000 copies specially bound copies signed by the author on the publisher's bookplate. The translation received the 2006 World Fantasy Award and was one of the New York Times's ten best books of 2005. John Updike has compared Murakami's "dreamlike" narratives to the works of Kobo Abe, likening the dream sequences in Kafka on the Shore to those found in The Tale of Genji, in which Lady Rokujo travels "down the tunnel of her subconscious". Kafka on the Shore was published in Japanese by Shinchosha in 2002. John Updike, "Subconscious Tunnels", New Yorker, 24 January 2005. Octavo. Original white boards, spine lettered in black, patterned endpapers. With the publisher's black card slipcase with lettering and cat device in silver. A fine copy.