David Mitchell — Ghostwritten
London, Sceptre, 1999 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of David Mitchell's acclaimed debut novel, consisting of nine disparate but interconnected tales. The first edition, first impression of this work, flat signed by Mitchell to the title page, and with his distinctive curlicues appearing in ink over his typed name.Mitchell's celebrated first novel won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.Written episodically, the novel follows a different central character in each chapter, with their lives interlinked through seemingly coincidental events.A number of characters mentioned in the work appear in Mitchell's later novels, including Utopia Avenue, Cloud Atlas, and The Bone Clocks. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Flat signed to the title page. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine .
