J.G. Ballard

First edition of Ballard’s celebrated novel of erotic obsession and the automobile.

• J.G. Ballard
• London: Jonathan Cape, [1973].
• 224 pp. 1 vols.
• 8vo.
• Original blue cloth.
• Fine copy in fine pictorial dust jacket.

“Vaughan died yesterday in his last car-crash. During our friendshipe he had rehearsed his death in many car-crashes, but this was his only true accident.”

Filmed by Cronenberg in 1996, with James Spader and Holly Hunter.

Currey p. 22.

Smith p. 31.