London, Harper Collins, 1995. First Edition. First Impression. Hardback. A fine copy. Signed by the author, also with a typed signed letter loosely laid in. Variant red faux leather, in dustwrapper. Top edge speckled red. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the lightly toned contents clean throughout and without previous owners? stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the lightly rubbed and slightly spine-faded original dustwrapper. Not price-clipped (?15.99 to the front flap). Signed and dated on the title page by Stephen Baxter in blue ink. With a short signed typed letter letting the recipient know that Baxter has sent a copy of 'The Time Ships' to Albert Stubbins, a football player who played for Newcastle United and Liverpool in the 1940s and 1950s, and who was featured on the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover. [10996, Hyraxia Books].