Books

London: Jonathan Cape, 1973. First British edition and first printing. Hardcover. 224 pages. A dark novel on fetishizing car crashes. The basis for the David Cronenberg directed movie with James Spader and Holly Hunter. A clean near fine copy with some very minute wear and in a very near fine dust jacket with some very minute wear. A lovely copy of one of Ballard's best novels.

Crash is a novel by English author J. G. Ballard, first published in 1973. It is a story about symphorophilia; specifically car-crash sexual fetishism: its protagonists become sexually aroused by staging and participating in real car-crashes.