Cloud Atlas [ Sealed ]
by David Mitchell
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Book is in New/Fine+ condition and still encased in publisher's original issue cellophane./No dust jacket issued
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SANDY, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
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.
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.
Synopsis
Cloud Atlas is a 2004 novel, the third book by British author David Mitchell. It won the British Book Awards Literary Fiction Award and the Richard & Judy Book of the Year award, and was short-listed for the 2004 Booker Prize, Nebula Award, Arthur C. Clarke Award, and other awards, placing it among the most-honored works of fiction in recent history.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parrish Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4935
- Title
- Cloud Atlas [ Sealed ]
- Author
- David Mitchell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New Book is in New/Fine+ condition and still encased in publisher's original issue cellophane.
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Signed Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk
- Date Published
- 2014
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