Kafka on the Shore, Signed (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Two Volume HARDBACKS, fully cloth bound, CAPPED in two-part SLIPCASE. FACTORY SEALED in Shrinkwrap. 1st Ed. THUS. Limited to 200 signed and numbered copies. Out of Print. Artwork by JACOB McMURRAY. Signed by both the artist & HARUKI MURAKAMI. "Winner of the World Fantasy Award. In an interview posted on his English language website, Murakami says that the secret to understanding this complex novel lies in reading it several times: 'Kafka on the Shore contains several riddles, but there aren't any solutions provided. Instead, several of these riddles combine, and through their interaction the possibility of a solution takes shape. And the form this solution takes will be different for each reader. To put it another way, the riddles function as part of the solution. It's hard to explain, but that's the kind of novel I set out to write.' NO DJ, as Published. NO remainder mark. | SHIPS AIRMAIL INTERNATIONALLY! [Extra Charges for International and Priority Delivery]. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A beautiful copy of the signed limited edition, simultaneously released with the first trade edition. A fine copy signed to the publisher issued bookplate and with the wonderfully low limitation number of #12/1000.This copy has the singular flaw of some almost unnoticeable rubbing to head of spine, common with slip cased books. Otherwise this item is as new, with none of the typical rubbing to gilt decorations on the case, and retains the publisher price sticker at the bottom side. Octavo, cream boards, black titles, printed endpapers, 505 pages, black slip case with silver gilt decorations. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box. Signed by Author(s).

Hardback. Condition: As new. No jacket. Limited first edition in English. Limited first edition in English. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 505, [1]. Cream cloth, lettered in black to spine; decorated endpapers. Housed in a black cloth slipcase. Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel, winner of the 2006 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for this effort. Originally published as Umibe no Kafuka in 2002, in a two-volume set by Shinchosha Publishing Co. Ltd, Tokyo. #631/1000 copies signed in Japanese by the author on a tipped-in bookplate. Author's tenth novel. Winner of the 2006 Franz Kafka Prize as well as a 2006 World Fantasy Award. Named as one of the Best Five Fiction Books of the Year in 2005 by the New York Times. Incorporating musical motifs, metaphysics, and the subconscious, an exploration of mythic and contemporary taboos in which a teenage boy's flight from his Oedipal curse crosses paths with an ageing simpleton bearing a wartime affliction. According to Murakami, the secret to understanding this complex novel lies in reading it several times: "Kafka on the Shore contains several riddles, but there aren't any solutions provided. Instead, several of these riddles combine, and through their interaction the possibility of a solution takes shape." "[A] real page-turner, as well as an insistently metaphysical mind-bender." -John Updike, The New Yorker. 1018. signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. author signed (title page) nf/nf first print, first US edition. very nice copy; no marks, not remaindered, not exlib, dj price intact, first edition stated, nap. fiction hardcover. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover first UK printing. Fine in like Dust Jacket with some mild age toning along outer text edge, other wise a very lovely copy. Signed in Japanese by the author on the title page. Dust jacket in protective cover and securely shipped in a box. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. McMurray, Jacob (illustrator). First Edition Thus, Limited, Signed. First edition thus, two volume hardcover set in capped slipcase, signed by Murakami and McMurray, and marked as no. 180/200 on the limitation page, which appears at the end of the second volume. Both books have a very minor lean to their binding, and a hint of wear to their cover corners, but overall, this is a solid, tight, clean and sharp, Near Fine copy of this luxuriously produced two volume set, which is housed in a Very Good+ two-piece slipcase, as issued. The slicpase has some faint rubbing to the cloth, and a touch of lifting starting at the upper right seam of the front piece, additional images are available by request, and higher shipping fees may apply.

8vo, 505pp. A very good hardback copy with some slight yellowing and marking in some places. In a very good slipcase with a small tear to bottom corner. . Limited edition. No. 28 of 1000, signed and numbered by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. 1st edition / 1st printing. Signed slipcased limited edition numbered 385/1000. Some discolouration to spine of book and minor scuffing to slip case. Signed by Author(s).