Science Fiction
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.
AFTER WORLDS COLLIDE.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1934. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] ix-xiii [xiv-xvi] 1-341 [342-344: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original blue cloth, front and spine stamped in gold, fore edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed. First edition, first printing. Sequel to WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE. The survivors of the destruction of Earth start a new civilization. Bailey, Pilgrims Through Space and Time, pp. 126-27. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 041. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 64. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 86. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 27. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 14. Reginald 00801.
WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii 1-344, original red cloth, front panel stamped in light blue and ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in light blue, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. First edition. A famous, popular catastrophe novel that was a huge commercial success (over half a million copies sold) and was made into a film that helped spark the SF movie boom of the 1950s. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-3; (1981) 2-130; (1987) 2-146; (1995) 2-156; and (2004) II-70. Bailey, Pilgrims Through Space and Time, pp. 125-26. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 042. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 62. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 86. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 27. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2463-68. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 14. Reginald 00801.
WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE.
[New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933.]. Octavo, pp. [1] 2-32, original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Advance "teaser" printing the first 32 pages of the novel. Promotional booklet for this famous, popular catastrophe novel, which was a huge commercial success (over half a million copies sold) and was made into a film that helped spark the SF movie boom of the 1950s. The front cover reproduces the four-color illustration printed on the front panel of the dust jacket of the published book.
FLYING DEATH ...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1927. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-198, title page printed in orange and black, original yellow cloth, front panel stamped in green and blind, spine panel stamped in green. First edition. Fantastic adventure novel concerning the activities of the "Flying Death," an organization of aerial bandits. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 112. Reginald 00799. Bleiler (1978), p. 14. Hubin (1994), p. 45.
FLYING DEATH.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1927. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Fantastic adventure novel concerning the activities of the "Flying Death," an organization of aerial bandits. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 112. Reginald 00799. Bleiler (1978), p. 14. Hubin (1994), p. 45.
FEERSUM ENDJINN.
[London]: Orbit, [1994]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award, Novel, 1995. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-74.
FEERSUM ENDJINN.
[London]: Orbit, [1994]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award, Novel, 1995. "...is a complex tale told at a scherzo pace, conflating several plotlines – one a bravura narration in dyslexic English – into a neatly planned climax during which the purpose of a terrestrial Macrostructure is revealed, a Far Future world is saved, folk are reunited, the dead walk as do the Uploaded, and every living being is sling-shot into a new paradigm at the end of things." - John Clute and David Langford, SFE (online). Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-74.
CANAL DREAMS.
London: Macmillan, 1989. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
CONSIDER PHLEBAS.
London: Macmillan, [1987]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "Conflict between two dystopian cultures, one Islamic, the other communist. First of his novels of the Culture, few of which have explicitly utopian content but can collectively be seen as utopian." - Sargent, British and Utopian Literature, 1986-2009. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-72.
THE PLAYER OF GAMES.
London: Macmillan, [1988]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 201 numbered copies signed by Banks. Second novel of the Culture sequence. "... though more economically told than CONSIDER PHLEBAS (1987), its bulbous predecessor, less challengingly pits its protagonist against a savage game-based civilization, which he causes to crumble." - John Clute and David Langford, SFE (online). Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.
WALKING ON GLASS.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition.
WALKING ON GLASS.
[London]: MacMillan, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second book.
WALKING ON GLASS.
[London]: Macmillan, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second book.