NMLP P-036759 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami · Alfred A. Knopf (New York) · 1997
Knopf US 1997 (published October 1997) is the true first English-language edition. The Harvill Press UK edition followed in 1998, issued as a paperback original (no UK hardcover was published initially), so the US hardcover clearly precedes the UK. The Japanese original, Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru, appeared in three volumes (1994-1995), which correspond to the three 'books' of the single-volume English text.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-036759 for "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036759, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).