The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
“Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade": First Edition of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles; Signed three times by Illustrator Chip Kidd
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
$650.00
Item Number: 125609
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
First edition of Murakami’s 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. Octavo, original boards. Signed three times by the jacket illustrator Chip Kidd; once on the front panel, on the half-title page and on the rear jacket flap. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin.
"A beguiling sense of mystery suffuses The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and draws us irresistibly and ever deeper into the phantasmagoria of pain and memory. . . . Compelling [and] convincing" (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
