London: Gollancz, 1962 [1963]

8vo, pp. 175. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dust jacket. Light offsetting to endpapers, but a near fine copy in a darkened dust jacket with ownership signature to front flap, small and unobtrusive closed tears to lower edges of folds, and some wear to corners and spine ends.

First edition of Ballard's second novel, set in a world of the near future made almost uninhabitable by climate catastrophe.

A very good copy of a now scarce and increasingly prescient Ballard title.