The Crystal World.

£375 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

Ballard's fourth novel, centred on a dystopian catastrophe first serialised in 'New Worlds' in 1964 under the title 'The Equinox'. In the striking dustjacket that reproduces Max Ernst's painting, The Eye of Silence. First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's pale blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, cloth a little browned at spine and extremities, with the unclipped pictorial dustjacket, spine panel slightly tanned, light rubbing to extremities with associated creasing; very good.

• Printing: first
• Binding: Hardcover

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