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London: Sceptre, 2024. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 1st Printing. Signed to the title page. Unread new copy.

London: Hodder and Staughton. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by David Mitchell in black ink on the full title page. See our photo of his elaborate signature. First Edition/First Printing with the First Published by statement and the full numberline including the 1 on the copyright page. This UK edition precedes the US edition and is the true first. Book is bright, sharp, beautiful, and Fine. No previous owner marks, no remainder marks, no foxing, no bumping, no rubbing. Dustwrapper is bright and beautiful with no fading and no wear. Dustwrapper has its original price of 16.99GBP. Dustwrapper promo band is present and also in Fine condition. Dustwrapper protected in Mylar. Ships same or next business day very well protected in plastic bubble wrap inside a box. Interestingly, the text of the UK edition is somewhat different from the text of the US edition. Mitchell worked closely with the editors at Hodder and Staughton on changes to the text, but those changes were never sent to Random House in the US. The new editor at Random House (the original editor had left the company) made changes to the text and never sent those to Hodder and Staughton in London. David Mitchell has said he was too inexperienced an author at that point in his life to ensure that the texts matched. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 529 pages; Signed by Author .

Norwalk: Easton Press, 2014. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. Book is in New/Fine+ condition and still encased in publisher's original issue cellophane./No dust jacket issued. Signed by the author David Mitchell on limitation page. In Fine+ condition and never removed from the publisher issued cellophane wrap. Pristine. Has become scarce in the last decade or so, especially unopened. Accompanied with all collector's paperwork and signed certificate of authenticity. Comes with all the Easton Press publishing points. Leather bound with gilt pages, smyth sewn and 22 kt hubbed spine. Also includes moire silk endpapers, gold-gilt cover designs and bound-in silk bookmark. Easton Press books are expertly bound for enduring quality, ensuring decades of use. Writer David Mitchell has referenced Herman Melville, Aldous Huxley, "All the President's Men," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next," and Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel" as among some of the inspirations that went into "Cloud Atlas." In an interview with the Guardian, the writer said he had "...a wish to see how many narratives I could embed, in a fractal sort of way, in a single novel." "Cloud Atlas" was later adapted into a film by the Wachowskis.