Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami (Signed First American Edition, Knopf, 2014)

Signed first American edition of Haruki Murakami’s Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2014 and translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. The book follows Tsukuru Tazaki, a railroad engineer haunted by the sudden rejection of his closest friends, as he revisits the past in search of an explanation and a way forward. It is one of Murakami’s most introspective novels, blending memory, identity, loneliness, friendship, and the dreamlike unease characteristic of his fiction.

This copy is a signed first American edition and retains the distinctive Chip Kidd-designed jacket and binding, including the colorful transit-map motif and the publisher’s “Signed First Edition” sticker. Murakami’s signature appears prominently in blue on the tipped-in signature page. Signed copies of this issue are notably scarcer than the standard first edition; specialist dealers describe the publisher-distributed signed issue as a limited group of copies.

This copy is in Very Good condition overall. The book itself presents well, while the dust jacket shows visible handling and edge wear, including creasing and small tears along the upper edge and some wear at the lower edge and spine ends. The jacket remains bright and complete, and the signature page is clean and attractive.