High-Rise

by J. G. Ballard

$1,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. viii , 7-204 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth, spine titled in gilt, top edge blue. Fine in fine original illustrated dust jacket price-clipped . Currey p. 23; Pringle A122. Item #371549 Sharp copy of Ballard’s dystopian novel of a London luxury apartment builiding and the residents’ desecent into savagery. Source for the 2015 film directed by Ben Wheatley.

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