VERMILION SANDS

by Ballard

$850 · Offered by L. W. Currey

London: Jonathan Cape, 1973 . Octavo, white wrappers printed in black and hot pink. Advance copy of the first British edition. Collection of stories first published in magazines between 1956 and 1970 about a decaying artists' colony in the near future, set against surrealistic desert landscapes. With their motifs of singing flowers and statues, living clothes, cloud-sculpting and psychotropic houses, the tale are not

• Binding: Wrappers

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