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Octavo, boards. First edition. Bookplate signed by the Ballard laid in. Filmed in 1996 by David Cronenberg with James Spader and Holly Hunter. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-64. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-16. Winter list, p. 268. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with touch of rubbing to edges. A sharp copy. (#126819).

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.