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J. G. BALLARD: THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS.
[Hayes, Middlesex]: Bran's Head Books Ltd., [1976.]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Interview with Ballard, bibliography (through 1975) and critical articles and reviews. Contributors include Brian Aldiss, Michael Moorcock, Ian Watson, David Pringle and others.
THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION.
[London]: Jonathan Cape, [1970]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof. "Fifteen avant-garde pieces which may or may not constitute a marginally sf "novel." Ranging from "You and Me and the Continuum" (1966) to "Tolerances of the Human Face" (1969), they deal with the contemporary media landscape, a world of motorways, multi-story car parks, TV screens and glossy advertising. The central character's name changes from segment to segment, but he appears to be a doctor who is suffering from a mental breakdown. The author's most difficult book, but some readers regard it as his masterpiece." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. [23]. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-24.
THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION.
[London]: Jonathan Cape, [1970]. Octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Signed by Ballard on the title page. "Fifteen avant-garde pieces which may or may not constitute a marginally sf "novel." Ranging from "You and Me and the Continuum" (1966) to "Tolerances of the Human Face" (1969), they deal with the contemporary media landscape, a world of motorways, multi-story car parks, TV screens and glossy advertising. The central character's name changes from segment to segment, but he appears to be a doctor who is suffering from a mental breakdown. The author's most difficult book, but some readers regard it as his masterpiece." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. [23]. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-24.
CONCRETE ISLAND.
Niew York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [1974]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U. S. edition. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-15. King list, p. 389. Winter list, p. 268.
CONCRETE ISLAND.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1974]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-15. King list, p. 389. Winter list, p. 268.
CRASH.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1973]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed bookplate by the author laid in. Filmed in 1996 by David Cronenberg with James Spader and Holly Hunter. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-16.
CRASH.
New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, [1973]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U. S. edition. "Perhaps Ballard's darkest, most unsettling book". Barron (ed.) Horror Literature, 4-16. Filmed in 1996 by David Cronenberg with James Spader and Holly Hunter. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-64. Winter list, p. 268.
THE CRYSTAL WORLD.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1966]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Author's fourth novel. Nebula award nominee, 1966. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-26.
THE CRYSTAL WORLD.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1966]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Ballard on the title page. Author's fourth novel. Nebula award nominee, 1966. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-65. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-17. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 82. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 63. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 49. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 453-56.
THE CRYSTAL WORLD.
New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1966. Octavo, jacket art by Max Ernst, quarter cloth with boards. First U. S. edition. Author's fourth novel. Nebula award nominee, 1966. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-65. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-17. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 82. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 63. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 49. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 453-56.
THE DAY OF FOREVER.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1986. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Collects ten stories, contents as per 1967 Panther Books edition. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 3-54.
DISASTER AREA.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1967]. Octavo, decorated wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof. Signed by Ballard on the title page. Collects nine stories including "The Subliminal Man" and "The Impossible Man." Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 3-55.
THE DROUGHT.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1965]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. An expansion of The Burning World (1964). Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-66. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 629-33.
THE DROUGHT.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1965]. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. An expansion of The Burning World (1964), a paperback original. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-27.
THE DROWNED WORLD.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1962. Octavo, boards. First British and First hardcover edition. Ballard's second novel. "Some seventy years hence life is only really possible in the Arctic and Antarctic and man is regressing into deeply buried racial memories." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 160. "A marvelous culmination of the long British tradition of disaster stories." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-37. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-67. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 35. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 634-38.
THE FOUR-DIMENSIONAL NIGHTMARE.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1963. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first short story collection. Collects eight stories including "The Voices of Time," "Prima Belladonna," and "Chronopolis."
HIGH RISE.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1975]. Octavo. cloth backed boards. First U. S. edition. A disturbing look at life in a high rise apartment block. "This book has been called an adult version of Golding's Lord of the Flies." Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-18. Pringle: Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #76.
LOVE AND NAPALM: EXPORT U.S.A.
New York: Grove Press, Inc., [1972]. Octavo, cloth. First published U.S. edition. First printed, but never published by Doubleday in 1970 as THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION. The Doubleday edition was destroyed by the publisher with only a handful of copies surviving (seemingly because of the story "Why I Want to F**k Ronald Reagan." This edition includes a preface by William S. Burroughs, original to this edition. Collection of linked stories, the contents follow that of the U.K. edition. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-62. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1274-77.
MEMORIES OF THE SPACE AGE ...
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., [1988]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 4903 copies printed. Collects eight stories, all the Cape Canaveral and related fiction, including several stories not previously reprinted.
NEWS FROM THE SUN.
[London]: Interzone, 1982. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Limited to 750 copies of which this is one of twenty presentation copies lettered A-T signed by Ballard. This is letter "N". This first appeared in Ambit No. 87.
VERMILION SANDS.
[London]: Jonathan Cape, [1973]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Signed by Ballard on the title page. "Collection of stories first published in magazines between 1956 and 1970 "about a decaying artists' colony in the near future, set against surrealistic desert landscapes. With their motifs of singing flowers and statues, living clothes, cloud-sculpting and psychotropic houses, the tale are not conventionally linked, and have differing characters. All marvelously original, with unforgettable imagery. One of Ballard's most brilliant books ..." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 401. This edition adds "The Singing Statues." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-69.
VERMILION SANDS.
[London]: Jonathan Cape, [1973]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Signed by Ballard on the title page. "Collection of stories first published in magazines between 1956 and 1970 "about a decaying artists' colony in the near future, set against surrealistic desert landscapes. With their motifs of singing flowers and statues, living clothes, cloud-sculpting and psychotropic houses, the tale are not conventionally linked, and have differing characters. All marvelously original, with unforgettable imagery. One of Ballard's most brilliant books ..." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 401. This edition adds "The Singing Statues." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-69.
DEALING OUT DEATH.
Philadelphia, David McKay, 1948. Octavo, boards. First edition. A Bill Lennox hard boiled novel, set in Las Vegas. Ballard was a Black Mask writer. Hubin, p. 652.
THE SEVEN SISTERS.
New York: A Permabook Edition published by Pocket Books, Inc., [1962]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Permabook M-4258. Paperback original. Crime novel set in Las Vegas. Hubin, p. 45.