Books

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. Small bumps to top edges of covers. Near fine in fine dustwrapper with, unusually, no fading to the spine. An impressive copy.

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.