1Q84

Overview:

• Title: 1Q84
• Author: Haruki Murakami
• Year: 2011
• ISBN-10: 9780307593313
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Price: $30.50
• Pages: [12]+925+[7]
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Omnibus
• Title Reference: 1Q84
• Notes:
  • "First United States Edition" stated on the eighth of twelve pages that constitute a continuous and combined title page/copyright page.
  • "Adapted for this single volume with the participation of the author" stated on page 4 of the title/copyright pages.
  • The copyright page starts on the recto of the front loose endpaper and continues for the next eight pages. It starts again on the second page after the last page of the novel: page [927].
  • The complete Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data is stated on page [927] and includes the year of publication (2011), the ISBN (978-0-307-59331-3), and the LCCN (2011014274).
  • The publisher and year of publication is stated on the tenth page of the twelve-page title/copyright page. Also on this page is the statement "Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel." Their individual effort is not acknowledged.
  • "Front-of-jacket photograph: [Apply Pictures]/ Alamy" (over) "Back-of-jacket photograph © Matthias Clamer/ Getty images" (over) "Jacket design by Chip Kidd" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket.
  • Book One is subtitled "April-June", Book Two is subtitled "July-September", and Book Three is subtitled "October-December".
  • The cover design is printed and adhered directly onto the boards of the book, with white "cutouts" for the title. The title is printed on an otherwise clear dustjacket which aligns with book's design to form a complete photograph with titles on both the front and back of the book.
  • The one exception to the merging of the title as displayed on the dustjacket and the boards of the book is the spine. The first and third characters of the title (1 and 8) are printed on the dustjacket, while the second and fourth characters (Q and 4) are printed on the spine of the book.
  • Month of publication printed on the back flap of the dustjacket: "10/2011"
  • Date of publication from Amazon.com.
  • The following pages have the page numbers printed in reverse (mirror-image): the odd-numbered pages 3-21, the even-numbered pages 22-58, the odd-numbered pages 61-97, the even-numbered pages 98-134, the odd-numbered pages 137-173, the even-numbered pages 174-210, the odd-numbered pages 213-249, the even-numbered pages 250-286, the odd-numbered pages 289-327, the even-numbered pages 328-364, the odd-numbered pages 367-403, the even-numbered pages 404-440, the odd-numbered pages 443-479, the even-numbered pages 480-516, the odd-numbered pages 519-555, the even-numbered pages 556-590, the odd-numbered pages 597-633, the even-numbered pages 634-670, the odd-numbered pages 673-709, the even-numbered pages 710-746, the odd-numbered pages 749-785, the even-numbered pages 786-822, the odd-numbered pages 825-861, the even-numbered pages 862-898, and the odd-numbered pages 901-925.