CRASH! – UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, SIGNED

by J. G Ballard

$3,750 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

First edition

London: Jonathan Cape, Ltd, 1973. First Edition. Ballard's sixth and best-known novel, a postmodern dystopia centered around sexual fetishism involving car crashes. After the narrator, named Ballard, survives a serious automobile accident, he becomes fascinated and excited by car crashes, especially after he meets Vaughan, a fanatical hoodlum scientist, whose ultimate ambition is to die with Elizabeth Taylor in a fiery

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