SLADE HOUSE (First edition, signed by the author on specially tipped-in page)

David Mitchell

ISBN 10: 1473616689 / ISBN 13: 9781473616684

Published by Sceptre (An imprint of Hodder & Stoughton), London, 2015

About this Item

First impression of the true first edition, with the no. "1" on the printer's page. This copy with the author's signature on specially tipped-in page. ***Near fine in red cloth-covered boards with metallic red titles and designs to the front board, spine and rear board. The boards are clean and unmarked. Edges of boards just slightly rubbed. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges have some browning / foxing marks. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions - with the author's signature on a page tipped-in by the publisher after the printer's page. Pages bright. No foxing. No creases or tears. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £12.99. No creases, chips or tears. Dustwrapper clean and bright. The design of the dustwrapper is interesting, as it has die-cut holes to the front panel showing the metallic red colour on the front board underneath (please see scans). ***205mm x 136mm. 233 pages plus a page of Acknowledgements and publisher's advert at the back of the book. ***'Turn down Slade Alley - narrow, dank and easy to miss, even when you're looking for it. Find the small black iron door set into the right-hand wall. No handle, no keyhole, but at your touch it swings open. Enter the sunlit garden of an old house that doesn't quite make sense; too grand for the shabby neighbourhood, too large for the space it occupies. A stranger greets you by name and invites you inside. At first, you won't want to leave. Later, you'll find that you can't.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***'David Stephen Mitchell (born 12 Jan 1969) is an English novelist, television writer, and screenwriter. He has written nine novels and has also written articles for several newspapers, most notably for The Guardian. He has translated books about autism from Japanese to English. Mitchell's first novel, "Ghostwritten" (1999), takes place in locations ranging from Okinawa to Mongolia to pre-millennial New York City, as nine narrators tell stories that interlock and intersect. It won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (for best work of British literature written by an author under 35) and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His two subsequent novels, "number9dream" (2001) and "Cloud Atlas" (2004), were both favourably received and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2003, he was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. In 2007, Mitchell was listed among Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. In 2012, his metafictional novel "Cloud Atlas" (again, with multiple narrators), was adapted as a feature film of the same name. ***"Slade House" is the seventh novel by Mitchell, and originated as a Twitter story which was then developed into a full novel, and is a companion to "The Bone Clocks". Set between the late seventies and the present, the novel explores the mysterious Slade House and a number of characters who are drawn to it.' (Wiki) ***First impression of the true first edition, with the author's signature on specially tipped-in page, in its original dustwrapper in near fine condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SLADE HOUSE (First edition, signed by the author on specially tipped-in page)
• Publisher: Sceptre (An imprint of Hodder & Stoughton), London
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1473616689
• ISBN 13: 9781473616684
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: First Impression
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed & Limited Editions
  • Literature
  • First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

Born out of the short story David Mitchell published on Twitter in 2014 and inhabiting the same universe as his latest bestselling novel The Bone Clocks, this is the perfect book to curl up with on a dark and stormy night.

Turn down Slade Alley - narrow, dank and easy to miss, even when you're looking for it. Find the small black iron door set into the right-hand wall. No handle, no keyhole, but at your touch it swings open. Enter the sunlit garden of an old house that doesn't quite make sense; too grand for the shabby neighbourhood, too large for the space it occupies.

A stranger greets you by name and invites you inside. At first, you won't want to leave. Later, you'll find that you can't.

This unnerving, taut and intricately woven tale by one of our most original and bewitching writers begins in 1979 and reaches its turbulent conclusion around Hallowe'en, 2015. Because every nine years, on the last Saturday of October, a 'guest' is summoned to Slade House. But why has that person been chosen, by whom and for what purpose? The answers lie waiting in the long attic, at the top of the stairs...

About the Author

David Mitchell is the author of the novels Ghostwritten, number9dream, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, The Bone Clocks, Slade House and Utopia Avenue. He has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize, won the World Fantasy Award, and the John Llewellyn Rhys, Geoffrey Faber Memorial and South Bank Show Literature Prizes, among others. In 2018, he won the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, given in recognition of a writer's entire body of work. His screenwriting credits include the TV shows Pachinko and Sense8, and the movie Matrix: Resurrections.

In addition, David Mitchell together with KA Yoshida has translated from Japanese two autism memoirs by Naoki Higashida: The Reason I Jump and Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight.

He lives in Ireland.