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Ballard, J.G.. The Crystal World. Jonathan Cape, London, 1966.
Price: US$122.38 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The boards are quite heavily discoloured with patchy yellow-brown marking across both the front and rear panels and the spine. The page edges have some scattered dark brown spotting. There is a one inch black mark to the front free endpaper - this could be a drawing - and a one and a half inch piece has been neatly cut from the top corner. Light brown spotting to the endpapers. There are a few spots through the book but the pages are generally unmarked. No jacket. First printing.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Ballard, J.G.. The Crystal World. Jonathan Cape, London, 1966.
Price: US$154.59 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The spine is darkened with a few scattered brown spots. The boards are discoloured in places with patchy brown spotting across both the front and rear panels. The page edges have some scattered dark brown spotting and there is a faint trace of some lettering having been stamped on the bottom edges. The book has a slight musty smell but the pages are not browned and are otherwise clean and unmarked. No jacket. First printing.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Ballard, j.g.. THE CRYSTAL WORLD. jonathan cape, 1966, first edition ,,, 1966.
Price: US$156.00 + shipping
Description: 21s.net visible, very good, corners clipped as usual, some creases jacket only, NO BOOK
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, webster, NY, U.S.A.
J. G. Ballard. The Crystal World. Jonathan Cape, London UK, 1966.
Price: US$251.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An ex libri first edition of The Crystal World with dust jacket and rare to find in such good condition. From the library of the HMS Euryalus so not as heavily used as a public library. Max Ernst's painting, The Eye of Silence, is reproduced on the jacket. Bright clean boards with gilt lettering and clean contents. Top edge pink. Library stamps on the front paste down and lower page ends. The bright dust jacket has light chipping/wear to the extremities. Wear affecting text on top edge of the spine.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
J. G. Ballard. The Crystal World. Jonathan Cape, London, 1966.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 221 pp. Hardcover, bound in boards with dust jacket. Light edge-wear, one corner slightly bumped.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
BALLARD, J. G.. The Crystal World.. London: Jonathan Cape, 1966, 1966.
Price: US$644.13 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of this novel considerably expanded from a two-part serial of the same name which appeared in the magazine New Worlds in 1964. The book is considered "the most fantastic of Ballard's environmental apocalypses. It suggests the possibility of living plants and animals being transformed into a mineral-like substance as well as the possibility of the distortion of time. it is also one of Ballard's most insightful climate-disruption novels in that it directly links climate disruption to the spread of disease, a concern of many scientists studying the possible effects of climate change" (Holte, p. 52). James Craig Holte, Climate Change in Popular Culture, 2022. Octavo. Original white boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge pink. With the pictorial dust jacket reproducing a painting by Max Ernst. Jacket lightly rubbed, spine panel a little faded, nick at head, otherwise bright, unclipped: a fine copy in very good jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Ballard, J. G.. THE CRYSTAL WORLD. Jonathan Cape, 1966.
Price: US$728.35 + shipping
Description: THE CRYSTAL WORLD, Cape, 1966, first edition, near fine in vg+/near fine dust-wrapper. SIGNED by the author on a bookplate laid in.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Ballard, J[ames] G[raham]. THE CRYSTAL WORLD. Jonathan Cape [1966], London, 1966.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. Signed by the author on the title page. Author's fourth novel. Nebula award nominee, 1966. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-26. Wonderful wrap around dust jacket from a Max Ernst painting. A fine copy, previous owners name to front free end paper in a fine dust jacket with some slight edge rubbing. (10700)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Ballard, J[ames] G[raham]. THE CRYSTAL WORLD. Jonathan Cape, London, 1966.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's fourth novel. 1966 Nebula nominee. 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. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with some rubbing along front spine fold and front flap fold. A nice copy of this book. (#103529)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Ballard, J[ames] G[raham]. THE CRYSTAL WORLD. Jonathan Cape [1966], London, 1966.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. 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. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A sharp copy. (28442)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Ballard, J[ames] G[raham]. THE CRYSTAL WORLD. Jonathan Cape, London, 1966.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Ballard on the title page. The author's fourth novel. 1966 Nebula nominee. 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. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with light rubbing at edges. (#126820)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Ballard, J[ames] G[raham]. THE CRYSTAL WORLD. Jonathan Cape, London, 1966.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. First edition. Brief signed inscription by Ballard to "Arthur" on title page. The author's fourth novel. 1966 Nebula nominee. 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. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with touch of rubbing to spine ends and corner tips and some internal age-darkening to spine panel (no show through). An excellent copy of this book. (#114519)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
J.G. Ballard. The Crystal World. Jonathan Cape; London, 1966.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First UK edition/First Printing; A Near Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, with only light age-toning and spotting to the board edges and very mild rubbing to the jacket edges, else F/F. SIGNED boldly by the author to the title page. A stunning copy of this novel by one of the great 20th Century Scifi writers; uncommon in this condition and signed. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA, Tomball, TX, U.S.A.