![]() ![]() ***'Haruki Murakami was hailed as "a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wise man" on publication of "A Wild Sheep Chase" in 1988, establishing him as Japan's bestselling novelist and a writer of international repute. Very slight creasing at the edges of the dustwrapper. Very slight fading to the spine of the dustwrapper. ***In a very good illustrated dustwrapper which has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's price of £9.99. ![]() ![]() There is a publisher's 'Damaged' stamp to the bottom edge of the page block. With some lighter creasing to the edges also. There is also a crease to the lower corner of the front cover, and another to the top corner of the back cover. The covers are unmarked - however, there are reading creases to the spine which is also rolled from reading. ***Very good in matt black card covers with white titles to the spine and the front cover. ***Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum. The book was published in hardback in the USA by Kodansha International, also in 1994. Published in the UK as a paperback original. "1" on the publisher's copyright prelims-page: 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. First impression of the first UK edition with number-string sequence including the no. ![]()
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