New York: Kodansha International, (1991). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 400 pp. Original quarter black cloth under magenta paper-covered boards, stamped in silver, in original price-clipped ($21.95) dust-jacket. Trivial edge wear, shelf and handling wear particular to corners and edges. Small horizontal scratch to jacket front panel. A few dimples to jacket. Protected in archival mylar. Book is moderately tight and square. Faint lean. Light shelf and handling wear. Interior clean and unmarked. A few bumps to panel edges and corners. Page edges a touch dusty. A clean copy of this first edition.

Dust Jacket: Very Good

Hardcover: Very Good

“A strange and dreamlike novel, its chapters alternate between two narratives—"Hard-Boiled Wonderland" (the cyberpunk, science fiction part) and "The End of the World" (the surreal, virtual fantasy part). Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World was awarded the Tanizaki Prize in 1985. The End of the World narrative was one of the inspirations for Yoshitoshi Abe's Haibane Renmei, originally produced as a manga and later adapted as an anime series.”