8vo. First edition. Original off-white hardcovers, gilt. Jacket design reproduces Max Ernst’s painting, The Eye of Silence. Signed “J. G. Ballard” in blue ink on the flyleaf. The same ink appears to have been used to score through the second “crystalline river” which has been printed twice in the epigraph. The unclipped d/w is faded on the spine and rubbed along the edges. Near fine in very good + d/w.