Dance, Dance, Dance by Haruki Murakami first edition signed by Murakami

Dance, Dance, Dance; Haruki Murakami, Kodansha(1994); Signed; 1st/1st; HB 8vo; VGVG; Not Ex-Library, Not Book Club, Not Print on Demand; Hb-Black trade cloth w/rubbed gilt lettering to spine, very minimal edgewear, very minimal rubbing/bumping, rear board very slightly splayed ; DUST JACKET-Multi-colored pictorial w/multi-color lettering, very minimal edgewear/rubbing to tips, brodart protected; 393ppg- No markings, pages white, flat, smudging/ tiny spotting to edges.In this impressive sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase , Murakami displays his talent to brilliant effect. The unnamed narrator, a muddled freelance writer, is 34 and no closer to finding happiness than he was in the previous book. Divorced, bereaved and abandoned by his various lovers, he is drawn to the Dolphin Hotel--a strange and lonely establishment where Kiki, a woman he once lived with, ``upped and vanished.'' Kiki and the Sheep Man, an odd fellow who wears a sheepskin and speaks in a toneless rush, visit the narrator in v