The Crystal World by Ballard, J G - 1966

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966. Hardbound . 1st Printing. BINDING/CONDITION: black binding with white crystal pattern; silver and green spine text; a Good+ book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. The panoramic dust jacket is from a painting by Max Ernst, Eye of Silence. ''Through a 'leaking' of time, the West African jungle starts to crystallize. Trees are metamorphosed into enormous jewels. Crocodiles encased in second glittering skins lurch down the river. Most men flee in terror, afraid to face what they cannot understand. But some, dazzled and strangely entranced, remain to drift through this dream world forest. There is a doctor in pursuit of his ex-mistress, an enigmatic Jesuit wields a crystal cross, and a tribe of lepers search for Paradise . . . '' 8vo (8.25 inches tall) 210 pages. Light slate-blue endpapers.