Wheels Chance Time Machine (14 results)

Condition: Good. 1949. Last Reprinted. 301 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light sunning to spine and edges.

Condition: Good. 1949. 1949 reprint. 301 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Condition: Good. 1964. Last Reprinted. 303 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Paper worn away to front pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Very slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Foxing overall.

near fine, appears unused, blue cover jacket only, NO BOOK.

hardcover. Condition: Good. 1943 JM Dent pocket edition on red cloth a worn copy.

Condition: Good. 1949. 1949 reprint. 301 pages. Red pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Prize plate to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Condition: Good. 1943. Reprint. 303 pages. Red dust jacket with black lettering over red cloth. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with sunning to spine and board edges. Unclipped dust jacket. Top half missing from front panel. Moderate wear, tear and chipping to edges and corners, with tanning to spine. Small stains and soiling to DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Vg reprint in a VG, unclipped DJ .school prize plate to fep.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint.

Hardcover/gebunden. Condition: gut. In englischer Sprache. 301 pages.

Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. Reprint Thus. Red cloth lettered in gold on spine (no decoration). Name of owner at top of title page. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Slight mark on rear cover.

J.M. Dent & Sons, London 1935. XII+301 pages. Orig. red cloth, no dust wrappers. Name on flyleaf. Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. ALL FOUR BOOKS ARE HARDBACKS BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL BINDINGS, WHEELS OF CHANCE IS A COLLEGE PRIZE BINDING WITH GILT MOTIF TO FRONT BOARD & PRIZE PLATE INSIDE DATED 1940, TWO BOOKS WITH A FRONTIS PLATE. EACH BOOK MEASURE APPROX 7 x 5 INCHES. SOME RUBBING & MINOR MARKS TO COVERS, MOST CORNERS LIGHTLY BUMPED, SOME BROWNING & MINOR FOXING MOSTLY TO DOCTOR MOREAU, ONE BOOK WITH NAME TO FRONT ENDPAPER. OVERALL ALL ARE VERY GOOD COPIES. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.

Atlantic edition, limited edition, no. 167 of the US edition of 1,050 sets, signed by the Author in volume I, twenty-eight volumes, 8vo. Photographic frontispiece to each volume. Original buckram backed boards, all but two of the volumes still with their slipcases, and eleven volumes with some or most of their rather browned tissue wrappers. Several slipcases with degrees of wear and cracking - two lacking one edge, and some light marking to spines, but overall a very well preserved set. A further 620 sets were sold in the UK.