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Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
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AbeBooks Seller since July 26, 1999
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. Seller Inventory # 179109
Title: Kafka on the Shore. Translated from the ...
Publisher: London: The Harvill Press, 2005
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
Octavo hardback with color illustrated boards in pale green wrap-around, 510 pages, a fine copy. First Vintage Classics edition, with a new introduction by the author. Seller Inventory # 34520
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Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Hard Cover. Condition: F-. Dust Jacket Condition: F. Fifth Printing. F-/F. 8vo. original black boards gilt (prev. owner's name to title page) in dustwrapper priced £12.99; pp. [vi (last blank)], 506 (last blank), with decorated endpapers. A near fine copy. Seller Inventory # 029309
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Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
8vo., First Edition thus, text in blue and black, with frontispiece, coloured plates and 3 double-page spreads; blue patterned cloth, backstrip lettered in blue and orange, printed endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. Seller Inventory # 46292
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