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First edition, first printing. In as-new condition with the wrap-around band. Signed by DAVID MITCHELL. A work of virtuosic story-telling, deft and visceral characterization and virtually unlimited imaginative power. A series of apparently unrelated stories, connected by unexpected threads. The true first edition. Short-listed for the Booker Prize and a major motion picture.

London: Sceptre, 2004. [Modern Literature] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 529 [9]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page: '[doodle] To James | David Mitchell | with best regards | London | May | 2004.' Publisher's red cloth with metallic blue titles to spine, and cyan endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Kai Clements and Sunny, priced at £16.99. Some general handling, including bumping to top corners. Some toning and spotting to edges. Light wear to jacket edges with a couple of closed tears, and just a touch of sunning to spine. Very good. Shortlisted for the 2004 Booker Prize. Basis for the film of the same name, released in October 2012.

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.

HC in dust jacket. 1st Printing. Signed by Mitchell. Pages toning slightly. A fine copy in a dust jacket.

Special signed edition made for foreign press packages. Signed by the Wachowski sisters and Tom Tykwer to the title page in silver ink. A scarce example of a media item not meant for distribution. Large quarto, 197 pages in dark blue-green wraps. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box.

First Edition. Mitchell's third book, a highly imaginative cult novel shortlisted for the 2004 Booker Prize. Filmed in 2012. Fine in fine dustjacket, with the blue publisher s promotional wraparound band intact. Signed by Mitchell on the title page.

First Easton Press edition, hardcover in full leather with all edges gilt, and gold stamped decoration to the spine and covers. This special collector's edition is signed by Mitchell, and is accompanied by the publisher's certificate of authenticity and notes card. The book has a tiny skew to the binding, and minor shelfwear to the cover corners. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight, clean and sharp, Near Fine copy, and additional images are available upon request.

London: Sceptre-Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. Signed By the Author. 1st Edition. 8vo. Blue metallic lettering on red cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Includes the turquoise wraparound band. This copy signed by the author on the title page. Mitchell's breakthrough third book is a tour de force of interconnected stories. A great copy of an important book..

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.

London: Sceptre. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0340822775 . First edition. SIGNED by David Mitchell on title page. Fine in fine dust jacket with the green belly band present. Author's THIRD book which many consider his masterpiece. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 529 pages .