THE HARD-BOILED WONDERLAND AND THE END OF THE WORLD: A NOVEL ... Translated

by Alfred Birnbaum by Haruki Murakami

$350 · Offered by L. W. Currey

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1991 . Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First British edition, first printing with 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 on copyright page. An unnamed but decidedly hard-boiled detective takes on a strange case involving a brilliant but naive elderly scientist, his beautiful, apparently mute granddaughter, some very strange technology, and what appear to be kappas, traditional Japanese monsters. In

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