modern first edition books from Firsts in Print
modern first edition books from Firsts in Print

Modern first editions

All of the books featured on these pages are first editions and first printings


Dear Life
by Alice Munro

Published: Chatto & Windus, 2012

Fine in like wrapper. Last book by winner of MAN Booker International Prize and Nobel Prize.

Price: £25.00

Dear Life by Alice Munro


Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
by Alice Munro

Published: Chatto, 2001

Near fine in like wrapper. A few lightish creases to extremities. Winner of MAN Booker International Prize and Nobel Prize.

Price: £28.00

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro


Runaway
by Alcie Munro

Published: Chatto & Windus, 2005

Superb selection of stories by Nobel Laureate.

Price: £26.00

Runaway by Alcie Munro


Friend of My Youth
by Alice Munro,

Published: Chatto & Windus, 1990

Very good plus (slight lean) in very good plus wrapper, with just a couple of edge creases. Neat ownership inscription to half-title page. 1990 Collection from Nobel Laureate.

Price: £20.00

Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro,


Killing Commendatore
by Haruki Murakami

Published: Harvill Secker, 2018

Fine, signed, limited edition. One of only 100 worldwide copies (50 released in the US, 50 in the UK) this is a beautiful limited edition and likely to remain the only signed example of this title. Picture here still in the publisher's box and tissue paper, with copy number attached.

Price: £1495.00

Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami


Aeroplane
by Haruki Murakami

Published: Oundle Festival of Literature Press, 2007

Number 72 of 120 signed copies of this story from Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman.

Price: £595.00

Aeroplane by Haruki Murakami


Absolutely on Music
by Haruki Murakami, Seiji Ozawa

Published: Harvill Secker, 2016

Near fine in like wrapper. Fascinating conversations between novelist and conductor. Scarce first printing, with publisher's themed postcard.

Price: £95.00

Absolutely on Music by Haruki Murakami


Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
by Haruki Murakami

Published: Harvill Secker, 2006

Fine in fine wrapper. Signed by way of the bookplate that appeared in the limited edition version, but without limitation number. A few of these plates escaped onto the open market and this combination is rare as such.

Price: £225.00

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami


What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
by Haruki Murakami

Published: Knopf, 2008

Spiral Bound Galley Proof of the Pre-Publication Manuscript, dated February 2008, containing the Knopf pre-publication details and printed from the electronic manuscript back to front (ie. from last page to first). Rare in this form.

Price: £295.00

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami


What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
by Haruki Murakami

Published: Harvill, 2008

Fine in fine wrapper. Fascinating study of running writer. Relatively scarce first edition, signed by way of Vintage bookplate, laid in.

Price: £295.00

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami


Novelist as a Vocation
by Haruki Murakami

Published: Harvill Secker, 2022

Fine in fine wrapper. This is the Waterstones Exclusive Signed Edition, signed to the title page in Japanese, with printed English transliteration, and black/themed sprayed page block edges.

Price: £195.00

Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami


Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
by Haruki Murakami

Published: Harvill Press, 2006

Fine limited Edition in like slipcase. No. 376 of 1000 signed and numbered books, via bookplate affixed to title page. This one a rare example signed in Japanese.

Price: £395.00

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami


First Person Singular
by Haruki Murakami

Published: Harvill Secker, 2021

Fine in fine wrapper. Latest from Murakami, in the form of a classic story collection. No limited edition this time, only a small number of title-page signed copies, distributed by the publisher randomly around the UK. (There are some US signed editions, but these are tip-ins.) Exceptionally rare therefore.

Price: £595.00

First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami


Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
by Haruki Murakami

Published: Harvill Secker , 2014

Fine in fine wrapper. Latest sensation from Murakami. Quickly reprinted.

Price: £25.00

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami


Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
by Haruki Murakami

Published: Knopf, 2014

Fine in fine wrapper. Very small dint to head of spine with corresponding rub to wrapper, but does not detract and mentioned for accuracy only. Beautifully designed US edition of Murakami's latest with Tokyo subway maps etc and stamped and signed 'Haruki' to a tip-in page. A limited number of these editions was disseminated by the US publisher.

Price: £175.00

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

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