NMLP P-011252 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Elephant Vanishes

Haruki Murakami · Alfred A. Knopf (New York) · 1993

The Knopf US 1993 hardcover is the true first of this collection, which was compiled in English and has no single Japanese-language equivalent. The UK edition (Hamish Hamilton, 1993) was a paperback original with no UK hardback; The Harvill Press issued a later softcover. The original Japanese stories were published separately in Japan over the preceding years.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-011252 for "The Elephant Vanishes" by Haruki Murakami (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-011252, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).