A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel by Haruki Murakami; Alfred Birnbaum [Translator] - 1989

Kodansha Amer Inc, 1989-10. Hardcover. Used: Good.

New York, NY: Kodansha International, 1989. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. American First. First Edition stated on verso of title page; minimal wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; 299 pages; dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Kodansha International. Used - Very Good.

Kodansha International, 1989-10-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

New York: Kodansha International, 1989. First edition thus. 263 pp., 8vo, perfect-bound in wrappers. Advance reading copy, using uncorrected galley proofs, of Murakami's first book to be published in the United States. Lower forecorner very slightly bumped, otherwise fine.

Kodansha, 1989. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. No fading to jacket but slight bleeding of green cloth at top of spine onto back of jacket (one-inch by one-inch). Price-clipped. Promotional postcard laid in. .

Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha International, 1989. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is in VG condition with light rubbing to edges & covers, light bumping to spine ends else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in VG condition with light rubbing to edges & covers, light bumping to spine ends else bright, intact and whole.

Tokyo and New York: Kodansha International, 1989. Translated by Alfred Birnbaum. 299 pages in excellent, clean, white condition. Endpapers clean. Quarter bound with green cloth over blue boards. Fading on the edges of both boards. Some light wear at the head of the spine. Corners not bumped. Illustrated DJ with grey titles. Edges and spine faded. Yellowing on the top edges of the fold-overs and inner dust jacket. Price clipped. VG/VG-. First U. S.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-.

Tokyo and New York:: Kodansha International, , (1989). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket (lamination flaw at bottom of front cover of dj. some rubbing to the dj). First US printing. The author's third novel, a literary thriller first published in 1982, and his first book to be translated into English. "It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance companys advertisement. What he doesnt realize is that included in the pastoral scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man in black who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. Thus begins a surreal and elaborate quest that takes our hero from the urban haunts of Tokyo to the remote and snowy mountains of northern Japan, where he confronts not only the mythological sheep, but the confines of tradition and the… Read More

First American edition/first printing. Square spine, no writing or marks, no folded page corners. Dust jacket has no rips or creases. Not a remainder or book club printing.