The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami, First Edition (24 results)

paperback. Condition: New. First Edition, First Printing.

Paperback. Condition: New. 327 pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]; illustrated wraps. With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple suffers attacks of hunger that drive them to up a McDonald's in the middle of the night; and a young woman discovers that she has become irresistible to a little green monster who burrows up through her backyard. By turns haunting and hilarious, The Elephant Vanishes is further proof of Murakami's ability to cross the border between separate realities - and to come back bearing treasure. First Vintage International Edition (Later printing).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. First edition THUS. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.31.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Paperback original - no UK hardback edition. Slight wear to corners of book and light browning to page edges. 'Damaged' stamped on bottom of page edges but no other significant faults. Jacket has light edge and surface wear. First printing.

Condition: Fine. First UK Edition, first impression, with printing sequence line '10987654321'. Publisher's illustrated card cover with separate illustrated dust-jacket. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Octavo. pp. [8], 328. Not published in a UK hard-back edition. Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum and Jay Rubin. A book in Fine condition in a Fine dust-jacket.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A fine, clean and tight copy in a fine jacket/brodart covered, stated First Ediiton. No bumped corners to book. Spine tips are smooth and round. No tears, no chips to jacket. No signatuares. Jacket is not priced clipped. A very nice copy in like new and unread condition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Bound in black cloth over white boardrs, stamped in silver, housed in a redi and white illustrated dust jacket. A tight, clean, unread copy of this, the first edition of the Japanese author's third book -- Boldly signed by the author on the title page. A 327 pp. book of short stories. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A Fine soft cover book in wraps as issued. First Edition/ Later printing. SIGNED by Murakami in Japanese on the title page along with his English "HARUKI MURAKAMI" stamp. Book is bright and clean, fully intact, tight and square with no markings or tears. A solid, highly collectible copy over all. Very rare as we have never seen this title signed in soft cover. Signed copies of the Elephant Vanishes have become quite scarce and hard to find. Signed by Author(s).

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

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Wrappers. Slim stapled wrappers. Four volumes as issued in a printed cardboard slipcase. All four volumes are fine, the slipcase is a little rubbed at the extremities and is very good or better. Issued by the publisher to promote four (then) new novels.

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in wrappers in a Very Good- slipcase. Creasing to slipcase. This is an incredibly scarce advance collection of excerpts from upcoming Knopf publications in 1993. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First American edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. (327pp. ) (6" X 8 3/4") Author's FIRST collection of stories. A superb copy. ; 6"x 8 3/4"; 327 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American edition. 8vo. [11], 5-327, 328, [1] pp. Quarter black cloth over white paper boards with silver lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $21.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket illustration and design by Chip Kidd. Translated by Alfred Birnbaum and Jay Rubin. First printing of the first American edition. A stunning copy of these short stories from the prolific Murakami.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf (1993). First American edition, first printing. Hardbound. Fine/Fine. A nice clean bright copy. Quite scarce. The author's third book to be published in the United States. One of the stories became the first chapter in Wind Up Bird Chronicle. 0.0.

First edition of this classic collection of stories, one of which was the basis for the 2018 acclaimed film Burning. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "To Karen Haruki Murakami (in both Japanese and English) 5/6/93 Princeton, NJ." Additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd, once on the front panel, above Murakami's signature and on the jacket rear panel. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum and Jay Rubin. In these stories, a man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple suffers attacks of hunger that drive them to hold up a McDonaldâs in the middle of the night; and a young woman discovers that she has become irresistible to a little green monster who burrows up through her backyard. By turns haunting and hilarious, in The Elephant Vanishes Murakami crosses the border between separate realitiesâ"and comes back bearing remarkable treasures. âThese stories show us Japan as itâs experienced from the inside. . . . [They] take place in parallel worlds not so much remote from ordinary life as hidden within its surfaces. . . . Even in the slipperiest of Mr. Murakamiâs stories, pinpoints of detail flash out . . . warm with life, hopelesslyâ"and wonderfullyâ"unstable" (The New York Times Book Review).

Condition: Very Good+. Advance Reading Copy. Advance reading copy of the first American edition. [vii], 327 pp. Wraps. Very Good+ with rubbing along edges of wraps. Nice shape overall. An uncommon issue of the novel.

First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); pale grey paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [viii],[4],5-327,[1]pp. Signed by the author on the front endpaper in a contemporary hand, in English and Japanese, dated about a month after publication. Faint foxing to upper edge of textblock, with a hint of sunning to upper board edges; very Near Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $21.00). Murakami's third English-language publication and his first collection of short fiction, gathering 17 stories, including "The Wind-Up Bird and Tuesday's Women," "Sleep," "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning," and "TV People." Murakami has always been a reluctant signer who does very few publicity events; contemporary signatures in early titles are uncommon. Rubin 16.

First edition, first printing. Signed and stamped by the author on a loosely inserted bookplate from the publisher Vintage. Fine in fine dustjacket.