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High-Rise
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High-Rise Hardback - 1977

by J. G. Ballard

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  • Title High-Rise
  • Author J. G. Ballard
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First American E
  • Pages 204
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Holt McDougal, New York
  • Publication date 1977
  • ISBN 9780030206511 / 0030206510
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Science fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 76029899
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.914

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High-Rise
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High-Rise

by Ballard, J. G.

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Henry Holt & Co. Collectible - Very Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Very Good. Good dust jacket.
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High-Rise

by Ballard, J. G.

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Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
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Hardcover
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
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Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover first edition has light toning to edges. Unclipped jacket is worn along edges and folds with some rubbing to panels. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 204 pages .
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High-Rise

by J. G. Ballard

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** FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING ** About this Item
First American edition, first printing, As New pages, unread, pages still stick! Sharp boards, spine, and pages. Fine Dustjacket. Bound in publisher's orange paper-covered boards over brown spine cloth lettered in copper. Very Fine with light wear at extremities, no foxing to textblock edges, In a Very Fine unclipped dust jacket. The best copy I could find in bookstores and the internet! Enjoy this amazing book.






SYNOPSIS

High-Rise by J.G. Ballard. The book is a
speculative novel published in 1975 that explores societal collapse within a luxurious, modern apartment building.










The novel's summary is as follows:





Setting: The story takes place in a newly built, forty-story high-rise building outside London, designed as a self-contained community with all amenities.






Plot: The residents, initially members of the upper-middle class, gradually abandon social restraints and their lives outside the building as minor… Read more
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