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First edition thus, first printing. 331pp. Hard cover, 4to, in red decorated paper-covered boards with titles in bronze-gold to spine, landscape illustrations in bronze-gold and black to front board, glimpsed through a round window in the original red slipcase. S/c with further maze-like decoration in bronze gold. The design is enhanced by illustration on the orange endpapers, two works on the colorful frontispiece, and an additional six, 4-page color sections within the text by award-winning Bogatá, Colombian conceptual artist and illustrator Daniel Liévano. **CONDITION: Fine, like new. According to the Translator's Notes, this is the first author-authorized issue published outside Japan since the first Japanese edition of 1987. A somewhat aimless young man, Toru, arrives at university in Tokyo amid the culturally- changing 1960's. Toru is bound by loyalty to a childhood friend who died, and feels compelled to help a young woman, Naoko, who has never worked through her grief at the death of this mutual friend. Their story is a journey of quiet intensity which takes them on literal journeys from the city to a mountainous retreat in search of mental clarity and love. The book is also full of humor, has been translated into 50 languages, and adapted to a prize-winning 2010 movie. A beautifully designed version of a powerful novel.
Ref: FICTC 9370
$125.00