First edition Hardback

Wheels (1971)

Market value

What decides the price

  • It is the first edition, which is the one collectors want.
  • The original dust jacket carries much of the price for a book of this age; its condition matters as much as the book's.
  • Condition is graded separately for book and jacket, from Fine down to Poor.

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In short

Quick answer

Who published the Wheels first edition?
Doubleday, Garden City, New York, in 1971, in hardback.
Publisher's practice

How Doubleday marked its first editions

Doubleday's British list is an imprint of Transworld Publishers in London, and its books are identified the British way: a first impression is shown by a complete number line on the copyright page.

  • A Doubleday UK first impression has a number line that still includes the 1, usually set as 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2, although other orders such as 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 also occur.
  • A later impression keeps the line but loses the lowest figure, so a second impression reads 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.
  • The same convention runs across Doubleday's children's books, which from the 2000s appeared from Random House Children's Books (later Random House Children's Publishers) in London.
  • The publisher line names Transworld Publishers, London, which tells a London copy apart from the New York Doubleday edition of the same title.

Read the full guide to Doubleday first editions, decade by decade, and check your copy's copyright page against it. Our number line decoder reads the printing from the row of numbers.

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Printings and states

First impression

1971

At a glance

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Who published the Wheels first edition?

Doubleday, Garden City, New York, in 1971, in hardback.