THE ELEPHANT VANISHES: STORIES - SIGNED

Murakami, Haruki (stories); Birnbaum, Alfred and Jay Rubin (translation)

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1993

About this Item

First Printing. Octavo (22cm); pale grey paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [viii],[4],5-327,[1]pp. Signed by the author on the front endpaper in a contemporary hand, in English and Japanese, dated about a month after publication. Faint foxing to upper edge of textblock, with a hint of sunning to upper board edges; very Near Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $21.00). Murakami's third English-language publication and his first collection of short fiction, gathering 17 stories, including "The Wind-Up Bird and Tuesday's Women," "Sleep," "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning," and "TV People." Murakami has always been a reluctant signer who does very few publicity events; contemporary signatures in early titles are uncommon. Rubin 16.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE ELEPHANT VANISHES: STORIES - SIGNED
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 1993
• Edition: First American Edition.
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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