![BALLARD, J.G (b. 1930). The Drowned World. London: Victor Gollancz, 1962 [1963]. 8°. Original red buckram, gilt lettered spine, yellow printed dust-jacket (some wear at top edge).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CSK/2006_CSK_04070_0354_000(114515).jpg?w=1)
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BALLARD, J.G (b. 1930). The Drowned World. London: Victor Gollancz, 1962 [1963]. 8°. Original red buckram, gilt lettered spine, yellow printed dust-jacket (some wear at top edge).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION AND BALLARD'S FIRST HARDCOVER BOOK. The New York edition was published in paperback only. Ballard's prophetic second novel, acclaimed for its 'evocative prose style and ferocious imagination', followed The Wind from Nowhere of 1962. Set in 2141, it presents the effects of a great increase of temperature when the seas have risen, and driven the remnants of humanity to areas like Greenland. But the action itself takes place in a post-apocalyptic London where the jungle has returned, and plant life is reverting to the form it had in the Triassic period. Explorers sent from Greenland have the unnerving experience of finding themselves and their psyches moving backwards in time. Currey p. 23.
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION AND BALLARD'S FIRST HARDCOVER BOOK. The New York edition was published in paperback only. Ballard's prophetic second novel, acclaimed for its 'evocative prose style and ferocious imagination', followed The Wind from Nowhere of 1962. Set in 2141, it presents the effects of a great increase of temperature when the seas have risen, and driven the remnants of humanity to areas like Greenland. But the action itself takes place in a post-apocalyptic London where the jungle has returned, and plant life is reverting to the form it had in the Triassic period. Explorers sent from Greenland have the unnerving experience of finding themselves and their psyches moving backwards in time. Currey p. 23.
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