Ballard, J.G.

i) The Atrocity Exhibition. Cape, 1970, first British edition, original black cloth, top edge red, dust-jacket; ii) Crash. Cape, 1973, first edition, original blue boards, dust-jacket (priced £2.25), together with a copy of the first US edition; iii) Concrete Island. Cape, 1974, first edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, original black cloth, top edge grey, dust-jacket, dust-jacket slightly worn at extremities; iv) Empire of the Sun. Gollancz, 1984, UNNUMBERED COPY FROM THE LIMITED EDITION OF 100 SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, original black cloth with red and white sun vignette on upper board, top edge red, in second state dust-jacket of the trade edition, letter from the author about his books ("Crash, High Rise + Concrete Island were prompted by what I saw in the 1970’s of the urban landscape around us all…") and an autograph card with a transcription of the opening line of Empire of the Sun, signed and loosely inserted, together with a proof copy and a copy of the first trade edition, both signed; together with eleven others, four signed; mostly 8vo, a few volumes with spotting along the upper edge of text block (18)