Back from London with great stuff!!

Saturday, Aug 23, 2014

Back from another London trip, returning with more highly collectible literary treasures both brand new and antiquarian.  First & foremost is the new, highly touted Murakami novel.  As all the U.K. newspapers screamed out in bold headlines and lengthy feature articles, MURAKAMI MANIA.  The new book, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, was released simultaneously in the U.K. and the U.S. at midnight, August 11th, and in London particularly the stores were mobbed by the crowds who'd been waiting for hours and hours to buy prized First Editions of the book, the very first translation in English, and an instant collectible.  The Haruki Murakami fan base is so internationally widespread (he's rumored to be the frontrunner for this years Nobel Prize for Literature) that in London, projected against the chimney of the famed Tate Modern, is a vast image of the new novel's dust jacket.  And at Mystery Pier, WE HAVE A LIMITED NUMBER OF THESE HIGHLY PRIZED U.K. FIRST EDITIONS.  And for sure, they won't be here for long.