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[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!. Jonathan Cape, 1973.

Price: US$4521.15 + 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