NMLP P-036756 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Haruki Murakami · Alfred A. Knopf (New York) · 1997

On a Knopf Borzoi first printing the identifying point is the PRESENCE of the numeral 1 in the number line (which reads 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2) — not a line that 'descends' or 'ends in 1' (the line actually ends in 2, with the 1 at its head)

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-036756 for "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036756, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).