BALLARD, J.G. The Terminal Beach. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1964.
8vo. Original red paper boards with spine lettered in gilt, in the dust wrapper; pp. [vi], 221, [ii]; light wear to edges of boards, light toning to page block, dust jacket a little dusty and toned to spine; a very good copy.
First edition.
Twelve short stories, ranging from the title story in which a grieving husband abandons his reality for life on an island used for nuclear weapon testing, the fable of a dismembered, washed up giant ("The Drowned Giant"), and a precursor to his later novel The Crystal World ("The Illuminated Man"). A US paperback collection with the same title containing only nine stories was published the same year.
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