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New hardcover with dust jacket. The sky blue boards are clean and crisp, with blue lettering to the spine. The dust jacket is bright, clean and free of marks. Pages are clean and fresh, and unread. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. First U.S. edition, Hanover Square Press, 2020. Book one in the series. Translated from the Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot. Originally published in Japan in 2015 as Coffee ga Samenai Uchini, it was adapted from Kawaguchi's stage play, winner of the Grand Prize at the Suginami Drama Festival. A small Tokyo café offers a seat that lets customers travel back in time. Over one summer, four visitors each hope to reach someone from their past.

UK softcover edition in very good condition. Covers are clean and unmarked. Pages are free of creasing or marks throughout. A very good copy throughout. Doubleday paperback by Hiro Arikawa, first published in Japan in 2012 and in Great Britain in 2017, this edition reissued in 2019. Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel, who also translates Haruki Murakami. Nana, a stray cat, narrates a road trip across Japan in a silver van with his owner Satoru, who is visiting old friends from his youth. Friendship, loss and memory shape the story, set against the changing seasons of the Japanese countryside.

A Vintage International first edition, first printing trade paperback in very good condition. Covers are clean, square, and free of soiling or creasing. Pages are bright and clean throughout, completely free of any marks, stamps, annotations, or turned corners. Binding is firm and tight with no cracking. A clean, very good copy throughout. Published as the First Vintage International Edition in October 1998, this trade paperback presents Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle in the award-winning English translation by Jay Rubin, Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at Harvard University, PhD from the University of Chicago, and Murakami's primary English-language translator. Rubin's translation of this novel won the 2003 Noma Award for the Translation of Japanese Literature, one of the most prestigious prizes in Japanese literary translation, and Rubin is also a recipient of the 1999 Japanese Literary Translation Prize. The translation was made and adapted from the Japanese with the direct participation of the author, an unusual collaboration that is noted on the copyright page. Widely regarded as one of Murakami's masterworks and a landmark of contemporary world literature.

A beautiful hardcover in new condition. The pages are clean, crisp, and unmarked, presenting as fresh and unread. The boards are unmarked.

This beautiful first printing softcover edition is in fine condition. The pages are tight and unmarked, and the book remains square, clean, and well preserved. A presentation inscription appears on the title page in gold ink. The book is not signed by the author.

This softcover edition is in very good condition. The pages are tight, unmarked, and the book is tight, square, and clean throughout.