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High-Rise

Ballard, J.G.

High-Rise

Jonathan Cape, London: 1975
  • $950
First edition. Some bumps to the upper edge and to the head and tail of the dust-wrapper (price-clipped, as so many copies were, by the publisher, with Cape's new price stickers (£6.95 net), one atop the other); else fine. Signed by Ballard on the title-page. An essential Ballard title, and difficult to find un-sunned. Looking into the belly of the great urban beast: the high-rise apartment building. Beneath the smug middle-class smiles beat savage hearts. Turned into a 2015 film directed by Ben Wheatley and starring Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons and Sienna Miller.
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