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First UK edition, first impression, signed by the author on the title page. L'Engle's classic children's fantasy novel has inspired many adaptations and won many awards, including the 1963 Newbery Medal, the Sequoyah Book Award, and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. It was published in America one year preceding its appearance in Britain and has sold more than ten million copies worldwide. This copy is in a variant binding of plain red boards, rather than patterned red and black. Octavo. Original red boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket by Antony Maitland. Foxing to top edge, faint partial browning of free endpapers; unclipped jacket generally sharp, save for light soiling: a near-fine copy in fine jacket. .

A Wrinkle in Time is a science fiction novel written by Madeleine L'Engle, first published in 1962. The story follows a young girl named Meg Murry, who, along with her brother Charles Wallace and friend Calvin O'Keefe, embarks on a journey through space and time to save her father from the clutches of an evil force. The novel blends elements of fantasy, science fiction, and Christian theology.