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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), 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.
FAREWELL MISS JULIE LOGAN: A WINTRY TALE.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-103 [104-106: blank]. cloth. First U.S. edition, later printing. Later printing of the first U.S. edition, Scribner's colophon is present on the copyright page, but no "A". Supernatural story with hint of vampirism. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction # 1752.
THE BOWL OF BAAL.
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, 1975. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Lost race adventure novel.
THE BOWL OF BAAL.
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, 1975. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Lost race adventure novel.
THYRA: A ROMANCE OF THE POLAR PIT ...
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1901. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-258, fly leaves at front and rear, original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. This issue without the seven inserted plates found in some copies is generally thought to be part of a remainder issue. However, it is more likely that these copies are part of a second or later printing of the book as pagination and make up of the signatures differ from those of the first printing. These later copies never had the inserted illustrations by Blumenschein or the leaf with "list of illustrations" (pages 7-8 of the preliminaries in the first printing). There are other variations, including no advertising leaves following page 258. A well-known lost race novel, regarded by many to be a minor classic of the genre. A quartet of explorers in a hot-air balloon drift and crash in an unexplored part of the Arctic, where they find, in a sort of hollow earth, a Norse colony, a pit with fantastic creatures, a ghoulish system of human sacrifice, and adventures aplenty. The story also involves what one could call a lost-race-within-a-lost-race. An excellent recreation of the Nordic zeitgeist. "Bennet's description of an expedition's thrust northward from Franz Joseph Land in 1896 provided one of the most realistic passages in the genre... THYRA pictured the full horror of Arctic exploration." - Clareson, The Emergence of American Science Fiction: 1880-1915, pp. 146-47. "One of the better early lost-race novels." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 171. Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 41. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 062. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 31. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 124. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 20. Reginald 01098.
THE LAST MUTATION.
London: Hamilton & Co. (Stafford) Ltd., [1951]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Science Fiction Monthly No. 11. A mutant of the future upon his release from guarded colony attempts to replace human civilization with mutants. "Campbell's controversial tour de force, and a much sought after collector's item." - Harbottle and Holland. Harbottle and Holland A56.
THREE GO BACK.
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, [1932]. Octavo, original yellow-orange cloth, front cover and spine stamped in brown. First U.S. edition. Time travel novel, two men and a woman are involved in an air crash are thrown back 25,000 years in time to the island of Atlantis where they become involved with Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-89.
THE ADVENTURES OF INSPECTOR LESTRADE.
London: Macmillan, 1985. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. First of this series.