Crash
by Ballard, J G
The definitive cult, post-modern novel – a shocking blend of violence, transgression and eroticism. When our narrator smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, his sense of sexual possibilities in the world around him becomes detached. As he begins an affair with the dead man's wife, he finds himself drawn with increasing intensity to the mangled impacts of car crashes. Then he encounters Robert Vaughan, a former TV scientist turned nightmare angel of the expressway, who has gathered around him a collection of alienated crash victims and experiments with a series of erotic atrocities, each more sinister than the last. But Vaughan craves the ultimate crash - a head-on collision of blood, semen, engine coolant and iconic celebrity. First published in 1973 'Crash' remains one of the most shocking novels of the second half of the twentieth century and was made into an equally controversial film by David Cronenburg.
Reviews
Review this book!
Available Copies
Crash
by J G Ballard
- Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1973
- Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- ISBN 10
- 0224007823
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Katoomba, New South Wales, AUS
- Item Price
-
$1,028.25
Show Details
Description:
Jonathan Cape, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Very scarce first UK edition. Dust Jacket has wear to top and bottom, and corners, and a a small tear (about 1") not closed on spine rear at top, but otherwise no missing pieces or tears. Some minor rippling to laminate on front… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,028.25
Crash
by Ballard, J. G.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 000728702X
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
GORING BY SEA, West Sussex, GBR
- Item Price
-
$2.54
Show Details
Description:
Paperback. Very Good. Item Price
$2.54
CRASH.
by Ballard, J. G.
- Condition
- Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Published
- 1973
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374130728
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Santa Monica, California, USA
- Item Price
-
$450.00
Show Details
Description:
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1973. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0374130728 . First American edition. Fine in close to near fine dust jacket. (1"-inch closed tear with collateral creasing at upper left-hand corner of rear panel. ) Basis for the David Cronenberg directed film adaptation. ; 8vo 8"… Read more about this item Item Price
$450.00
Crash
by BALLARD J G
- Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1973
- Binding
- Hard Cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Leicester, GBR
- Item Price
-
$2,899.58
Show Details
Description:
London: Cape, 1973. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's blue boards with gilt lettering to the spoine., A fine copy in like D/W with none of the fading to the spine panel that so consistently blights other examples. A UNIQUE COPY WITH A SIGNED PAINTING FROM THE DUST WRAPPER DESIGNER,… Read more about this item Item Price
$2,899.58
Crash
by Ballard, J.G.
- Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Published
- 1985
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0394741099
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, USA
- Item Price
-
$125.00
Show Details
Description:
Vintage, 1985. Unknown. No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Signed and inscribed by author on title page: 'To Mike + Cheryl J. G. Ballard.' The basis for the film of the same name, 'Crash's is Ballard's disturbing novel on symphorophilia (car-crash sexual fetishism). Good copy in the original color pictorial wraps (general light wear). … Read more about this item Item Price
$125.00
Crash
by BALLARD, J.G.
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1973
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0224007823
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Toronto, Ontario, CAN
- Item Price
-
$1,154.70
Show Details
Description:
London: Jonathan Cape, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. There is some very faint darkening to the upper and lower edges of the boards and spine. Otherwise fine in a bright, clipped dustjacket showing some light edgewear to the outer corners and head and heel of spine panel. Item Price
$1,154.70
Crash
by J G Ballard
- Condition
- Used - Very Good ++
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good++
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1973
- Binding
- Cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Northampton, Northamptonshire, GBR
- Item Price
-
$289.96
Show Details
Description:
USA: Farrar Straus, 1973. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st US Edition 1973. Different wrapper to the UK edition. Book is very good++ and bright. One corner slightly pushed. The complete wrapper is very good++ and bright. No yellowing to the wrapper. More digital images… Read more about this item Item Price
$289.96
Crash
by BALLARD, J.G. (1930-2009)
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, GBR
- Item Price
-
$322.18
Show Details
Description:
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. [Modern Literature] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo, pp.224. Publisher's black quarter cloth, with silver titles to spine and grey paper over boards. Top edge pink. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Lawrence Ratzkin, price at $6.95. Trivial handling, with some minor edge wear and light toning to jacket. Near fine. A near fine… Read more about this item Item Price
$322.18
Crash - The Collector's Edition
by BALLARD J G
- Condition
- Used
- Published
- 2017
- Binding
- Hard Cover
- ISBN 10
- 0007378343
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Leicester, GBR
- Item Price
-
$29.64
Show Details
Description:
London: Harper Collins, 2017. Hard Cover. (London: Fourth Estate an imprint of Harper Collins 2017). First UK Edition Thus. ISBN: 978-0-00-737834-0. A fine copy. Not issued with a D/W. A Special Edition Limited to 500 Un-numbered Copies. J G Ballard's 1973 novel is notorious for its unblinking description of the pursuit of… Read more about this item Item Price
$29.64
Crash (Signed First Edition)
by J.G. Ballard
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Published
- 1973
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Tomball, Texas, USA
- Item Price
-
$1,950.00
Show Details
Description:
Stated First American Printing; A Fine book in a Nearly Fine dust jacket. SIGNED by the author to the title page. A handsome copy of this critically acclaimed novel, basis for the David Cronenberg film; scarce in this condition, very rare indeed signed. This copy is in fine condition with a square tight binding, clean silver and black boards with… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,950.00
Crash
by Ballard, J. G.
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1973
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Beverly Hills, California, USA
- Item Price
-
$1,250.00
Show Details
Description:
Jonathan Cape, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A near fine first edition in a near fine dust jacket, First Published 1973 stated on the copyright page and original price of 2.25 net still on front flap of dust jacket. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Item Price
$1,250.00
Crash
by BALLARD, J.G.
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Published
- 1973
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374524122
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
- Item Price
-
$300.00
Show Details
Description:
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket with slight edgewear. A remarkable novel that interposes sex with automobile violence, the basis for the controversial film by David Cronenberg. Item Price
$300.00
Crash
by J. G. Ballard
- Condition
- Used - Fair
- Published
- 1994
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0374524122
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Los Angeles, California, USA
- Item Price
-
$12.50
Show Details
Description:
Crash 9780374524128, J. G. Ballard PB FAIR
pub Noonday/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1994 ...
New York, New York: Noonday/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994. Paperback. Fair. the book - obviously been read - book that was made into a movie - I think actually has a cult following... The book is well-read there is wear around the edges, of the cover and… Read more about this item Item Price
$12.50
Crash.
by BALLARD, J.G.
- Condition
- Used
- Published
- 1973
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
LONDON, GBR
- Item Price
-
$1,095.40
Show Details
Description:
Jonathan Cape, London., 1973. First edition. Octavo. 224 pages. Perhaps the most Ballardian of the author's novels and the one which gives a new twist to the concept of auto-eroticism. Filmed by David Cronenberg in 1996.Trace of erasure to front free endpaper, otherwise fine in fine dustwrapper with, unusually, no fading to the spine. A lovely copy. Item Price
$1,095.40
Crash
by Ballard, J. G
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1973-08-31
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374130728
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
-
$219.99
Show Details
Description:
Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1973-08-31. hardcover. Very Good. clean sturdy unmarked copy with dust jacket in great condition with only a couple smudges in top right corner -- mj Item Price
$219.99
Crash
by Ballard, J. G.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1973
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Avon, Connecticut, USA
- Item Price
-
$1,500.00
Show Details
Description:
London: Jonathan Cape, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. The author's best known work and source for the film of the same name. Clean very good copy with hint of fading along the top edge of the spine. Boards ever so slightly splayed. Price intact dustwrapper shows a tiny amount of wear at spine ends.… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,500.00
CRASH
by Ballard, J.G.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1973
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Naas, Kildare, IRL
- Item Price
-
$768.39
Show Details
Description:
London, United Kingdom: Jonathan Cape, 1973. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Print. A True First Edition, First Printing of the UK edition with 'First Published 1973' and no reprint statement. A very good plus copy in original clean blue cloth boards. Internally clean pages and a tight binding. The jacket… Read more about this item Item Price
$768.39
Crash
by BALLARD, J.G.
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Published
- 1973
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374524122
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
- Item Price
-
$300.00
Show Details
Description:
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Small label front pastedown and tiny loss of paper over rear hinge, else about fine in fine dustjacket with just a slight touch of the usual age-toning on the white jacket. A remarkable novel that interposes sex with automobile violence, and the basis for the controversial… Read more about this item Item Price
$300.00
Crash
by Ballard, J. G.
- Condition
- Used
- Published
- 1973
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Harrogate, North Yorkshire, GBR
- Item Price
-
$1,063.18
Show Details
Description:
London: Jonathan Cape, 1973. First edition, first printing. Published by Jonathan Cape in London, 1973. This is a very good (or better) copy. The Bill Botten dust wrapper is sunned at the spine and with some slight lifting to the laminate at the front panel. There is mild edgewear throughout and some very slight chipping to the spine tips.… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,063.18
Crash: A Novel
by Ballard, J. G
- Condition
- New
- Published
- 2017-12-05
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1250171512
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Fairfax Station, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$10.63
Show Details
Description:
Picador Paper, 2017-12-05. Paperback. New. Item Price
$10.63