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JONES, Diana Wynne. A Tale of Time City. [London]: Methuen [1987]. 12mo, 285pp. Grey boards with spine stamped in dark red. Pages a bit yellowed (as always), else a fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket. Signed by the author, Diana Wynne Jones.First edition. It's London in 1939. Vivian Smith thinks she is being evacuated to the countryside, because of the war. But she is being kidnapped – out of her own time! Her kidnappers are Jonathan and Sam, two boys her own age, from a place called Time City, designed especially to oversee history. But now history is going critical, and Jonathan and Sam are convinced that Time City's impending doom can only be averted by a twentieth-century girl named Vivian Smith. Too bad they have the wrong girl. A thrilling, and often funny, story from this master of children's fantasy.