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

First edition, First printing. Not inscribed, Not remaindered, Not ex Library, Not Book club. Number line including a 1. Dust jacket in protective cover and shipped in a box. Fine

Size: 6x9x1; SIGNED BY DAVID MITCHELL directly to the title page. A true 1st printing of this breathtaking 20th anniversary edition in gorgeous gift-worthy condition. Expedited and international shipping are welcome; signed by author.

INCREDIBLY SCARCE SIGNED! 20TH ANNIVERSARY of this now classic inspiration for the Tom Hanks film. Beautifully sprayed edges on this Limited Edition Collector's version of this beautiful novel. First edition, first printing. Solitary "1" denoting the first UK printing. Book is brand new and unread. Personally hand signed directly to the full title page by the author, David Mitchell. NOT a tip in. NOT a bookplate. Dust jacket hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting! Photos available upon request.By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks | Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeA postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending, philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profound as it is playful. In this groundbreaking novel, an influential favorite among a new generation of writers, Mitchell explores with daring artistry fundamental questions of reality and identity.Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. . . . Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . . . From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. . . . And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history.But the story doesn't end even there. The narrative then boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky.As wild as a videogame, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.

London: Sceptre. 2004. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Signed by the author. Flat-signed on title page. 5th impression. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 529 pages. . 1st Edition, Later Printing. Hardback.

9780340822777. Contemporary Fiction. Signed by Author. ~~Signed and dedicated 'To Andrew' by David Mitchell with cloud doodle signed and dated Bristol 2014~~Near Fine/Near Fine 1st printing 1st ed Sceptre hardback, unclipped DJ. First print with the turquoise illustrated end-papers, tight and unmarked. Size: 160\nx 48\nx 242mm. 544 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Signed by Author. ISBN: 0340822775. ISBN/EAN: 9780340822777. Dewey Code: 823.914. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 090237.

London: Sceptre, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First printing. Red boards with blue metallic spine lettering. Light bumping to head and foot of spine and one board corner, otherwise a fine copy in fine dust jacket. Signed by Mitchell on the title page with the usual flourish over his printed name.

A copy that is Fine, in that it is tight, clean, and never read, Near Fine in that there are signs of page tanning, and in a solid Near Fine dust jacket. U.K. First Edition-First Printing with a full number line ending with a 1. Signed, signature only, on the Title page, by Multi Award Winning Author David Mitchell, in person, during his book tour event for "The Bone Clocks" in New York City on September 15, 2014. A "The Bone Clocks" promotion tour postcard with the event date will be included. "Cloud Atlas" is a work combining metafiction, historical fiction, contemporary fiction and science fiction, with its interconnected nested stories that takes the reader from the remote South Pacific in the 19th century to the island of Hawaii in a distant post-apocalyptic future. "Cloud Atlas" begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American Notary voyaging from the Chatham Islands to his home in California. And so, begins this unforgettable novel, a tour de force. "Cloud Atlas" won the 2004 British Book Awards Literary Fiction Award and won the 2004 Richard & Judy Book of the Year. Additionally, "Cloud Atlas" was nominated for a multitude of other prestigious literary awards, such as the 2004 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, the Nebula Award for Best Novel, also in 2004, and the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2004. Rest assured, this collectible, signed copy is well protected in an archival Mylar cover; and will be very carefully packaged with protective material; and will be shipped in a new box. We always treat all of our books, and book buyers with the utmost respect.

Comments: Tight clean copy with doodle drawing above signature.Synopsis: A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified 'dinery server' on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation – the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each other's echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small.In his captivating third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity's dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us.

First edition, first printing. New and unread. Book and jacket are without flaws. Signed by the author on the second title page. Includes promotional wraparound band.