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Ballard, J. G.. Crash. Cape London 1973, 1973.
Price: US$374.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo 224pp., Very good copy in blue boards with a very good unclipped dust jacket (Bill Botton). 2 library stamps & tape-marks to half-title & rear end paper. Not quite collectable condition but still a very good copy of Ballard's futurist sexual/technological masterpiece. Scarce
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Ballard, J. G.. Crash. Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1973.
Price: US$449.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book hardcover First Edition pp224. Condition. Very Good. Ex-library, faint triangular library stamps (2x2cm) on title page, p31 and p61, library number opposite title page, small stain p9, otherwise clean. Some foxing to front endpaperas well as a little foxing to half title page. Light tanning and foxing on front edge commensurate with cheap paper and age. DJ Near Fine There is some foxing apparent on the inner flaps, slight fade to spine. DJ in Drasleeve protective plastic covers.
Seller: Joe Orlik Books, Manchester, United Kingdom
J. G. Ballard. Crash. Jonathan Cape, 1973.
Price: US$538.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publishers blue cloth with gilt to spine. Complete in original unclipped jacket. First printing. A very good and clean copy, with fading to spine. Good dust jacket with some chipping to head and tail of spine. Tape resedue to jacket flaps. Water staining to jacket verso. Images upon request.
Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Ballard, J.G.. Crash. Jonathan Cape, London, 1973.
Price: US$622.38 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The boards have fading to the spine and to a strip along the top rear edge along with a very slight dent in the top edge of the front panel. The page edges have some very slight spotting and there is a trace from a pencilled price on the front free endpaper but the pages are otherwise clean and bright. The jacket has excellent colouring with no fading to the spine. There is some rubbing along the edges with light chipping at the top of the spine. The front panel has several small dents near the centre, a surface crease in the top right hand corner and a small surface nick on the top edge. The rear panel has a thin strip of damage to the surface along the very bottom edge. Light yellowing to areas of the flaps with a three inch long semi-circular patch of damp staining to the reverse over the bottom of the spine area. First printing.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
J. G. Ballard. Crash. Jonathan Cape, London UK, 1973.
Price: US$692.96 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: An ex libri book with an excellent dust jacket. Original bright blue cloth boards with tape markings and stain on front free page. Otherwise generally clean with occasional markings/finger marks. The unclipped dust jacket is bright with none of the fading of the spine.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Ballard, J. G.. Crash. Jonathan Cape, London, 1973.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. The author's best known work and source for the film of the same name. Clean very good copy with hint of fading along the top edge of the spine. Boards ever so slightly splayed. Price intact dustwrapper shows a tiny amount of wear at spine ends. The wrapper suffers from some unusual pervasive wrinkling (see attached photo). Still, a decent copy of this classic.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Ballard, J. G.. Crash. , 1973.
Price: US$769.96 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1973 Jonathan Cape hardcover first edition, first impresion. Some reading wear, and fading to spine, unused bookplate to endpaper, a little foxing else good condition. A little fading and foxing to dustjacket and some wear to edges else good condition. The book is housed in a custom-made slipcase lined with acid-free paper and covered in navy bookcloth.
Seller: Lacey Books Ltd, Cirencester, United Kingdom
Ballard, J.G.. Crash. Jonathan Cape, London, 1973.
Price: US$930.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small scrapes on the surface of the front and rear of the boards. Tiny brown stain affecting the very tips of pages 13 to 20. Very small light stain on bottom of page edges. Otherwise a near Fine copy of the book. The jacket has excellent colouring with no fading to the spine. There is some rubbing along the edges with a tiny nick in the centre of the top edge of the front panel where there is also a small piece missing from the surface of the laminate. Another tiny closed tear at the bottom of the front flap. Light rippling to laminate down the left hand side of the front panel but no damage to the surface. First printing.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
BALLARD, J.G.. Crash.. Jonathan Cape, London., 1973.
Price: US$962.45 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 224 pages. Perhaps the most Ballardian of the author's novels and the one which gives a new twist to the concept of auto-eroticism. Filmed by David Cronenberg in 1996.Trace of erasure to front free endpaper. Small bumps to top edges of covers. Near fine in fine dustwrapper with, unusually, no fading to the spine. An impressive copy.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Ballard, J. G. Crash [True First Edition]. Jonathan Cape, Ltd., 1973.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK printing in Bill Botton-designed dust jacket. Jonathan Cape, Ltd., 1973; "First published." stated, no additional printings indicated; [1-6], 7-224pp. Binding is tight, sturdy; minor wear to edges and corners of blue cloth boards, gilt title on backstrip remains bright and bold; previous owner inscription on front end page, else text also very good. Moderate amount of wear to edges of dust jacket, some very minor fraying over spine ends; light dust soiling around edges of inner flaps. Dust jacket retains original price of £2.25 on bottom corner of front inner flap. From a private collection (NOT ex-library). Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
BALLARD, J.G.. Crash. Jonathan Cape, London, 1973.
Price: US$1127.35 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. There is some very faint darkening to the upper and lower edges of the boards and spine. Otherwise fine in a bright, clipped dustjacket showing some light edgewear to the outer corners and head and heel of spine panel.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
J G Ballard. Crash. Jonathan Cape, London UK, 1973.
Price: US$1219.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Minimal bumping on the corners and spine ends. Lean to the book. Clean end papers. Signed by the author on a sticker on the half title page. Clean contents. The dust jacket is bright with chipping and slight loss on the spine ends, touching on the lettering on the top of the spine. Faded spine colour. Light marking on the dust jacket covers.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Ballard, J[ames] G[raham]. CRASH. Jonathan Cape, London, 1973.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. First edition. Bookplate signed by the Ballard laid in. Filmed in 1996 by David Cronenberg with James Spader and Holly Hunter. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-64. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-16. Winter list, p. 268. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with touch of rubbing to edges. A sharp copy. (#126819)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Ballard, J. G.. CRASH. Jonathan Cape, 1973.
Price: US$1363.75 + shipping
Description: CRASH, Jonathan Cape, 1973, first edition, fine in like full color full wrap-around pictorial dust-wrapper. A cautionary tale against the technological future. The source book for the 1996 fillm of the same name. From the collection of esteemed Canadian fandom member Michael Glicksohn.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Ballard, J[ames] G[raham]. CRASH. Jonathan Cape, London, 1973.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. First edition. Filmed in 1996 by David Cronenberg with James Spader and Holly Hunter. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-64. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-16. Winter list, p. 268. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. A sharp copy. (#132207)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Ballard, J[ames] G[raham]. CRASH. Jonathan Cape [1973], London, 1973.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. 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. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to edges and extremities. A sharp copy. (10698)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
J. G. Ballard. Crash. Cape, London, 1973.
Price: US$1924.90 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Crash is, hands-down, the most repulsive book Ive ever come across, wrote the reviewer at the New York Times when this cult literary classic was first published in 1973. Difficult to categorise, it is ostensibly about symphorophilia, or car-crash sexual fetishism, its characters getting turned on by staging and participating in real car-crashes. Few writers could be more relevant to the world today than the prescient J.G. Ballard, and this psychopathic hymn is one of his greatest achievements. This is the first edition, published by Cape, London, in 1973, in Fine condition.
Seller: CASSIUS&Co., London, United Kingdom
Ballard, J. G. Crash. Cape, 1973.
Price: US$2845.33 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Ballard, J. G. Crash. Cape, 1973.
Price: US$2846.02 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New
Seller: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
BALLARD J G. Crash. Cape, London, 1973.
Price: US$2887.35 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition. Publisher's blue boards with gilt lettering to the spoine., A fine copy in like D/W with none of the fading to the spine panel that so consistently blights other examples. A UNIQUE COPY WITH A SIGNED PAINTING FROM THE DUST WRAPPER DESIGNER, BILL BOTTEN, TO THE FRONT FREE END-PAPER. On the front free end-paper the D/W artist (Bill Botten) has painted an illustration from the front panel of the D/W and signed it underneath. Scarce with these attributes. Photographs/scans available upon request
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Ballard, J.G.. CRASH! UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, SIGNED. Jonathan Cape, Ltd, London, 1973.
Price: US$3750.00 + shipping
Description: First Impression. Octavo (19.5cm); original printed card wrappers; [6],7-224pp; signed by the author on the title page, with the publisher's slip bearing a synopsis, £2.75 price, and date of publication mounted to half-title page. Ballard's sixth and best-known novel, a postmodern dystopia centered around sexual fetishism involving car crashes. "After the narrator, named "Ballard," survives a serious automobile accident, he becomes fascinated and excited by car crashes, especially after he meets Vaughan, a fanatical "hoodlum scientist," whose ultimate ambition is to die with Elizabeth Taylor in a fiery car accident. Perhaps Ballard's darkest, most unsettling book. The identification between sex, automobiles and violent death are graphic, Ballard's tone is detached, almost clinical" (Barron, Horror Literature 4-16). Rare in the proof state, especially signed.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
J. G. Ballard. Crash!. Jonathan Cape, 1973.
Price: US$4491.43 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A unique uncorrected proof copy of Ballard s infamous work about car-crash sexual fetishism. Coming from the library of Martin Bax, founding editor of the poetry and arts magazine Ambit (1959-2023), to which Ballard sometimes contributed, this copy contains numerous intriguing edits to the text in Ballard s own hand. These changes do not appear in the published version, but rather seem as though the writer has gone back to his own work post-publication and revised various passages. A nice copy inscriptions aside, issued by Jonathan Cape in 1973, with a descriptive pastedown to the frontispiece that differs from the blurb found on the published version, as does the price, which went down from the £2.75 proposed here to £2.25 in the end. The published work also lost the exclamation point in the title.
Seller: CASSIUS&Co., London, United Kingdom