BALLARD, J.G. The Terminal Beach. London:Victor Gollancz Ltd.1964.
8vo. Original red paper boards with spine lettered in gilt, Iconic Yellow and purple dust jacket, pp. [vi], 221, [ii], Light wear to the edges of boards with minimal soiling to the text block edges and pages very lightly toned, dust jacket toned to spine and front wrapper lightly soiled, otherwise very good.
First edition
An unnerving and eclectic selection of twelve short stories by a master of Post-War fiction, ranging from the title story in which a grieving husband abandons his reality for a life on an island used for nuclear weapon testing to tales of the disturbing dismemberment of a washed up giant (The Drowned Giant) and the precurser to his later novel The Crystal World (The Illuminated Man)….All embody the vast imagination of a prolific commentator on the modern human condition.
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