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J. G. Ballard. High-rise. Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1975.
Price: US$78.26 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1975. First Published. 204 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions; possible rebind. Light thumb marking, foxing and tanning to pages, pastedown and free endpapers. More prominent to text block edges. Light cracking to gutters; noticeable looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Ballard, J.G. High Rise. Jonathan Cape, London, 1975.
Price: US$369.49 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Edges and endpapers lightly foxed. Light sticker ghost on lower front blurb. Top edge of jacket slightly worn on top egde of upper rear blurb, minute nick to front panel near fore edge ; Original blue papered boards, spine gilt, top edge blue. Overall an excellent copy in like dustjacket ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 204 pages
Seller: Haymes & Co. Bookdealers, Kingscliff, NSW, Australia
BALLARD, J.G.. High Rise. Jonathan Cape, London, 1975.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 204 pages. A chilling work that is considered one of the 100 Best Science Fiction novels by Pringle. Adapted into the 2015 movie of the same name with Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Siena Miller, and Elizabeth Moss. A clean and tight near fine copy with some very minor wear and in a very near fine dust jacket. A very nice copy.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Ballard, J. G.. High-Rise. Jonathan Cape,, London, 1975.
Price: US$625.00 + shipping
Description: VG++ towards near fine, black top edge, price clipped dj. DJ is VG++ in an acetate,
Seller: Westsider Rare & Used Books Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Ballard, J. G.. High-rise. , 1975.
Price: US$708.54 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1975 Jonathan Cape hardcover first edition. A nice copy; light reading wear, else very good condition. The book is housed in a custom-made slipcase covered with grey bookcloth and lined with turquoise acid-free paper.
Seller: Lacey Books Ltd, Cirencester, United Kingdom
Ballard, J[ames] G[raham]. HIGH-RISE. Jonathan Cape, London, 1975.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. First edition. "The middle-class residents of a gigantic apartment block discover that their 'affectless' surroundings encourage a new kind of barbarism. Ironic, stylish, perverse, hard-hitting. Like the author's CRASH, it is only marginally SF, but in some ways it seems to prefigure the selfish yuppiedom of the mid-80s and the building of the Canary Wharf tower in London's former docklands." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition, p. 173. "This book has been called an adult version of Golding's LORD OF THE FLIES." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-18. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-68. King list, p. 389. Winter list, p. 268. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 364. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with printed price clipped and Cape's £6.95 price sticker affixed to the front flap. (#173352)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
J G Ballard. High Rise. Jonathan Cape, 1975.
Price: US$837.37 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition first impression from 1975 in VG+ condition, signed with dedication by author to title page, no internal markings, pages clean, binding firm, the jacket and boards have some shelfwear to extremities, jacket now in removable protective sleeve, please see pics, paypal accepted, any questions please get in touch.
Seller: Setanta Books, Richmond, SURRE, United Kingdom
J G Ballard. High-Rise. Jonathan Cape, London UK, 1975.
Price: US$837.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A near fine copy of the first edition of High-Rise with clipped dust jacket. Original blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Top edge is blue. Clean contents. Dust jacket is bright with minimal wear with small nick on the rear cover.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
BALLARD, J. G.. High-Rise.. London: Jonathan Cape, 1975, 1975.
Price: US$966.20 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of Ballard's dystopian fable, "less about the collapse of technology than about the boil-like bursting of original sin across a glass-and-chrome landscape" (Quigly). Pringle A122. Isabel Quigly, "Crumbling Towers and Dreams", Financial Times, 13 November 1975. Octavo. Original blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge blue. With dust jacket. Spine cocked and sunned, head of spine and foot of rear cover lightly bumped, spine end edges a little sunned; jacket faintly toned, edges lightly creased, unclipped: a very good copy in near-fine jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom