Trans Ted Goossen (5 results)

Paperback. Condition: New. This celebrated work of the 'I-Novel' genre - a Japanese type of confessional literature - is a poignant reflection on the author's hard-fought reconciliation with his father, and his own struggles with the inevitability of ageing, loss and death.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. gray cloth, white lettering, dust jacket, 227 pp.

Hardcover, in dust jacket. Condition: Near Fine. dj. First edition, first printing. Slight lean, spot of soiling top edge, light shelf wear, else near fine in near fine dust jacket, in mylar cover.

Boards. 1st UK Edition. 1st UK edition, octavo, illustrated boards, many colour and b&w illus, 'marbled' endpapers, pp 80. Near fine condition. A novella for children, which has appeared in various versions in Japan: this is the first edition in English. Fantastical encounters in a mysterious, nightmarish library. Author of 'Norwegian Wood'. …

Boards in d.j. 1st US Edition. 1st edition in English, octavo, original red cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 234. Near fine condition in like dustjacket. The first two novels by Murakami, translated here into English outside Japan for the first time. They are the first two books in the "Trilogy of the Rat" series, the third being "A Wild Sheep Chase". The books were first published in Japanese in 1979 and 1980 and for a long time they were difficult to find even in Japan. This first US edition also includes an introduction by Murakami, "The Birth of My Kitchen-Table Fiction", in which he describes his life at the time and the writing of the novels. Author of 'Norwegian Wood'.…