The Crystal World

Book Club Edition stated on front Jacket flap. FAIR/VG. Black cloth boards with a white outlined crystal to front, white lettering at spine. One page (83-84 verso) has a paragraph cut out (!) with highlighting above and below (hence Fair), spine tips bumped, otherwise a nice copy with no real issues. Dustwrapper flaps each have a crimped corner, not clipped… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape,, 1966. First edition, first impression, of this novel considerably expanded from a two-part serial of the same name which appeared in the magazine New Worlds in 1964. The book is considered "the most fantastic of Ballard's environmental apocalypses. It suggests the possibility of living plants and animals being transformed into a mineral-like substance as well… Read more about this item

Berkley, 1967. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. uncredited. First paperback edition/printing. Very Good (PON on first page, reader's crease) - nice, tight collectible condition. Surreal novel by the brilliant Ballard. Signed by Ballard! Scarce thus.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Corners slightest bit bumped still fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear. A nicer copy than usual.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. In very nice copy in black boards with white type/design and top page ends tinted green. Light bump to head of spine. Sharp corners, clean interior and solid binding. Jacket has a little rubbing to head of spine, tanning to edges of flaps and small silverfish… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966. This is a Fine copy of the Book Club Edition of one of Ballard's signature early works. Black cloth binding with a crystal in white on the front cover; white lettering on the spine. Clean text; 210 pages. The dustjacket is unclipped; shows just a tiny hintof wear at the foot of the… Read more about this item

The Easton Press, The Masterpieces of Science Fiction, 1991. First Thus; Collector's Edition. Issued w/o dj. Fine, "Like New" condition. Appears unopened / unread. AEG. Bound in full (genuine) navy leather with hubbed spine. Text block is bright and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Embossed in 22kt gold on spine, front, and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards.… Read more about this item

New York: Berkley Medallion, 1966. First U.S. Paperback Edition. Softcover. Store stamp on first page inside, else near fine, unread copy with faintest wear to extremities. First U.S. Paperback Edition. Softcover. Author's fourth novel. This paperback edition was preceded by a hardcover edition in the U.K. and U.S. A Berkley Medallion Book. X1380 ($0.60). Listed in Pringle's SCIENCE… Read more about this item

THE CRYSTAL WORLD, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966, first American edition, near fine in vg+ dust-wrapper with some slight wear to the dust-wrapper spine extremities. (Purchased at the Weist Heritage Auction on 9/13/2011 by a pathetically OVER ENTHUSIASTIC, ill informed and unobservant collector for $310!)

Softcover Omnibus Edition; A Fine copy with no apparent flaws. The scarce omnibus of these 3 extraordinary novels, protected in a plastic sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box. Not remaindered or ex-library.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Clean, crisp, uncracked softcover in near fine condition; faint shelf wear. . Near Fine. Soft cover. 1988.

London: Panther Science Fiction. 2nd printing (1970). 175pp. VG clean copy . Very Good. Soft cover. 1970.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1991. Collector's Edition . Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bauman, Jill. 210pp.; HB dk.blue leather w/gilt-gilt trim&ribbon; fine condition w/clean,tight pgs. A phenomenon is crystallizing the jungle. includes Collector's Notes

Picador Paper, 2018-06-12. Paperback. Very Good. 0.5906 8.1890 5.3937. Remainder mark on page edges. Otherwise, very clean. No bends, rips, or markings inside or out.

New York: Avon, 1981. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Copyright 1966. This copy is a 1981 first printing of the Avon edition. Very Good: reading crease at front hinge, thumb crease to back cover, small loss of laminate at upper free corner of front cover. Toned, minor wear. … Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1966. Ballard, originally thought a science-fiction writer, is now regarded as a critically important figure in the late 20th Century avant-garde. This is a later printing of the Fist Edition of this famous novel. Slight lean, minor soiling. The evocative DJ has been clipped. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾"… Read more about this item

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1966; Book Club edition, with jacket painting by Max Ernst; 210pp. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards also very good, corners sharp; titling remains bright and bold. Slight losses at corners and ends of spine; rubbing near spine; a bit of toning to flaps… Read more about this item

THE CRYSTAL WORLD, Cape, 1966, first edition, near fine in vg+/near fine dust-wrapper. SIGNED by the author on a bookplate laid in.

New York:: Quality Paperback Club, , (1991). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (as new). First thus, a trade paperback original. Omnibus edition containing three complete novels, originally published between 1966 and 1973. Each novel is numbered individually - 210, 224 and 176 pp. Cover design by Monica Elias.

New York:: Farrar Straus & Giroux,, 1966.. Book Club edition.. Hardcover.. Publishers black and gilt decorative cloth minor shelf wear to edges a small stain to inside hinge overall still very good to excellent. Illustrated dust jacket short tear to top cover and small tear at back top cover [see pics] still very good in protective mylar. Book… Read more about this item