Toronto: Knopf Canada, 1997. Black boards. Very light tan flecks to bottom page edges, else fine in fine jacket. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. The first novel of this acclaimed travel writer. "It is 1999, in London, England. David Lambert, museum curator and specialist in Victorian machinery recei ves startling information about the return of H.G. Wells's time machine from the 19th century. Sceptical but intrigued, he investigages and finds himself hurled far into the next millennium and to the biggest archaeological dig of all time." The novel won the David Higham Prize for Fiction in the UK, and was A Book of the Year at The Sunday Times and an Editor's Choice at The New York Times. This copy was used for promotional purposes for the Vintage Canada paperback reprint and has a 1 June, 1998, promotional sheet from the publisher laid in.; Signed by Author 0676970567