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Vermillion Sands is my favourite Ballard book and one of my most favourite books ever. It's a collection of short stories set in the great recess, on the edge of the desert sea, mostly about artists, mostly startling, mostly dripping with impossible glamour and strangeness. Nice weather we're having. The book is an original Panther paperback edition, damaged by damp and the books that were resting against it. The stunning Peter Jones cover is printed off-register which means it looks funky through 3-D glasses but the subtle shading of the original is lost. The previous owner has added his own subtitle; "stories of psychological cannibalism". |
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