Drowned World by Ballard, First Edition (36 results)

Condition: New. When London is lost beneath the rising tides, unconscious desires rush to the surface in this apocalyptic tale from the author of 'Crash' and 'Empire of the Sun', reissued here with a new introduction from Martin Amis. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 196 x 12. Weight in Grams: 184. 2006. 01st Edition. Paperback. . . . .

Condition: Good. 1965. First edition thus. 170 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Cover art by Richard Powers (illustrator). 1st Edition. Berkley Medallion mass-market paperback F823 originally priced 50 cents, as-new unread. States "Berkley Edition, September, 1963. . . . published by arrangement with the author." These nine stories including "The Man on the 99th Floor," "Thirteen to Centaurus," "Track 12," "The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista," "The Cage of Sand" and "Passport to Eternity" originally appeared -- mostly in 1962 -- in the magazines New Worlds Science Fiction, Amazing Fact and Science Fiction, Fantastic Stories, etc. Cover art by Richard Powers. 160 pp., reduced from $34.

Paperback. first thus. near fine, unread paperback,

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Solid with creases on the spine and the covers show light wear. The previous owner's name is on the first inside page.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. 158pp, quarto hardcover in dj. boards clean and sharp, tight binding, interior clean. DJ covers clean, 1" closed tear bottom front, in mylar cover.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. Mass market paperback, First Printing thus, 171 pages; covers lightly age toned and rubbed, otherwise very gently used, one very tiny bottom edge drop stain with barely visible penetration to three pages, traces of pale finger soiling (or liquid staining?) to another page, interior otherwise very clean and unmarked (except for usual age toning of pages).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Paper has browned; faintest edgewear thus near fine -- illus. wraps. Berkley Medallion paperback original F655. No reading wrinkles on spine - an excellent, bright copy. First printing.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stated First Edition. Library binding. Ex-library copy with usual stamps and markings inside. No dust jacket. Clean text, tight binding.

Condition: Very Good. VG/Fine Jacket in mylar 1st printing thus Spine edge bump.

1st ed. thus card covers Nice copy small octavo 171pp., Light toning as usual o/w a nice tight copy with a nice spine.

Boards in d.j. 1st thus. 1st thus, octavo, original green cloth-backed boards, dustjacket, pp 198, i. Near fine in like dustjacket. The fiftieth anniversary edition (first Liveright edition and the first time Ballard's masterpiece has been published in hardcover in the USA). The novel depicts a post-apocalyptic future in which global warming, caused by increased solar radiation, has rendered uninhabitable much of the surface of planet Earth. The story follows a team of scientists who are researching the environmental developments that occurred in the flooded city of London. A modern classic, and one of the founding texts of climate fiction.

Dick French (illustrator). London: Dragon's Dream:, 1981. First printing, Hardcover, Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, 158 pp. Cover artwork by: Dick French First printing, Hardcover, Fine in Near Fine dust jacket,

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. First edition hardcover stated. Hint of shelfwear to edges, textblock slightly toned. In worn and soiled DJ in mylar. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. The Drowned World' by J G Ballard. The book was first published in 1962. This copy is a first edition paperback published by Indigo UK 1997. Please Note: this is an ex-lib copy with stamps and small label to the first page and light age-toning to pages. Very good bright, clean covers with bright, complete spine. Echoing the real concerns about our planet today, this novel follows a team of scientists as they work in a London that has flooded, leaving it abandoned. The world faces a post-apocalyptic future in which global warming has caused the majority of the Earth to become uninhabitable.In 2010, Time magazine named The Drowned World one of the ten best novels about a post-apocalyptic world on Earth. The Drowned World is now considered a groundbreaking work in the climate change arena. Not exlib and packed and sent with care.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. No later dates or printings mentioned, so this is a Gollancz hardcover first printing. However, true firsts are generally found in red boards, whereas this 12mo copy hs been bound in green cloth with "Boots Booklovers Library" dropped out of a darker green shield near bottom of front board. There is a 2-inch vertical white scratch to front board. NO dust jacket. NO library stampings or attachments found. Weirdly enough, there is also a 7mm (1/4-inch) grommet mounted near head of spine, purpose unclear (for chaining the book to a reading-room desk?). Science Fiction. 175 pp. Reduced from $400.

Science Fiction Bookclub by arrangement with Victor Gollancz. London. 1964. DW. First edition, thus. Outer edge of pages very foxed, top edge of boards slightly sunned otherwise a clean and sound copy in a sunned wrapper that is slightly marked to rear panel and has slight shelfwear to edges and is creased to head of spine with a short close tear.

Oversize hardcover. First edition thus (& 1st printing). Classic sf novel, first published in 1962. New edition with over fifty full page colour illustrations by artist Richard French. SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE BY J. G. BALLARD. Fine copy in a near fine (bright, unfaded) dustjacket.

hardback. fine hardcover copy in a fine dustwrapper. 6th impression. SIGNED. In the 21st century, fluctuations in solar radiation have caused the ice-caps to melt and the seas to rise. Global temperatures have climbed, and civilization has retreated to the Arctic and Antarctic circles.

Soft Covers. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Penguin First Edition. Illustrated soft covers -chipped//creased/slightly "dog-eared"/soiled/blemished. 171pp.+ 4 pages introduced as: "A list of other SF titles in Penguins appears on the following pages". Pages browned and minimally "dog-eared". Fair.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Early J.G. Ballard, first published in 1963, illustrated here by Dick French. Fine in very good dustwrapper with a couple of nicks. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Boswell, James (illustrator). 1st Edition Thus. First Folio Society edition, hardcover, has a tiny skew starting to the binding, a light bump to the head of the spine with a hint of creasing to the cloth, and just a touch of shelfwear to the tail of the spine and to the cover corners. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight, clean Very Good+ copy in a Very Good slipcase, which has light bumps to the corners, and some rubbing to the panels.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First edition THUS. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Front hinge shows cracking, but the binding remains structurally sound. Pages without any extraneous marks. Gutter code: 50F. New mylar added to ensure future enjoyment. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.01.

Hardcover. First edition thus (& 1st printing). Classic sf novel, first published in 1962. This new edition includes seven full-page illustrations by James Boswell, and a new eight-page introduction by Will Self. Fine copy in pictorial boards (as issued without dustjacket) in slipcase (as new).

First Edition. THE DROWNED WORLD & THE WIND FROM NOWHERE, Doubleday, 1965, first edition, some age toning and moisture splotches to the t.p.e.'s with no bleed through to the upper margins of the text block (although the upper fore edge corners of the front and rear end-papers reveal a small bit of it), else just about fine in just about vg dust-wrapper save for some light chipping to the head of the dust-wrapper spine and some tanning to the outer margins of the rear dust-wrapper panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Wie neu. Ohne Schutzumschlag. 1. Auflage, Sonderausgabe. Ungelesen, wie neu. In schwarzem Schuber.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good minus: 112 pages, yellowed paper stock, creases to paper of spine and small loss in sacrum area! Pages 2-56 consists of " The Drowned World" novella.

Hardcover. First edition (& 1st printing). Omnibus edition of two sf novels: first hardcover edition of THE WIND FROM NOWHERE. Priced £4.50 on inner front flap (ie. not a Book Club edition). BRIEFLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Almost fine copy in a fairly good creased and worn dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. First American edition in hardcover. Near fine in a very good+ dust jacket. (Trace of light cracking at front hinge. 1/2"-inch and 1 1/2"-inch tears with mild shelf-wear at bottom of spine & edge of front panel of jacket. Couple short nicks & wear at crest of spine on jacket. ) Pleasing example of a wear prone title. ; 5 3/4" x 8 1/2"; 316 pages.

First UK edition, first hardback edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's red boards, gilt lettering to spine, with the unclipped dust-jacket, ownership inscription to front flap, small nicks to corners and spine ends, else very good. A truly excellent first hardback edition of this key climate change novel, as with his 1966 novel The Crystal World anticipating the more universal adoption of climate change science by many years. The novel also imagines mankind's innate primitive tendencies when exposed to an environment more akin to the Triassic period. This edition is preceded by a US paperback edition, but this Gollancz edition is the preferred, collector's edition.