Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell - 2020

New York: Random House, 2020. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Like New. Stated First U. S. Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by David Mitchell on the publisher's bound-in page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Spine head gently pushed. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($30.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. From the author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks.

Utopia Avenue is the strangest British band you've never heard of. Emerging from London's psychedelic scene in 1967 and fronted by folk singer Elf Holloway, guitar demigod Jasper de Zoet, and blues bassist Dean Moss, Utopia Avenue released only two LPs during its brief, blazing journey from the clubs of Soho and drafty ballrooms to Top of the Pops and the cusp of chart success, and on to glory in Amsterdam, prison in Rome, and a fateful American fortnight in the autumn of 1968.

David Mitchell's captivating new novel tells the unexpurgated story of Utopia Avenue; of riots in the streets and revolutions in the head; of drugs, thugs, madness, love, sex, death, art; of the families we choose and the ones we don't; of fame's Faustian pact and stardom's wobbly ladder. Can we change the world in turbulent times, or does the world change us?