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When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on “enemy” floors. In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.
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J.G. Ballard was born in Shanghai in 1930 and lived in England from 1946 until his death in London in 2009. He is the author of nineteen novels, including Empire of the Sun, The Drought, and Crash, with many of them made into major films.
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British actor Tom Hiddleston, well-known for portraying the supervillain Loki (The Avengers, Thor: The Dark World) and the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (Midnight in Paris), brings his acting versatility and smooth voice to this visionary tale by acclaimed author J.G. Ballard (Empire of the Sun). When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds, and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on "enemy" floors. Human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.
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High-Rise: A Novel
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Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977
ISBN 10: 0030206510
ISBN 13: 9780030206511
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12mo Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st U.S. Edition. 204p. Bright pages are unmarked. Tightly bound with securely attached hinges. Burnt orange paper boards with brown cloth spine and bronze gilt lettering are pointed with heavy foxing along text-block. Jacket is protected in mylar and remains unclipped with original price of $6.96. Edges and extremities are heavily rubbed and chipping, but is intact otherwise. Seller Inventory # 98108
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High-Rise
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. 1st U.S. Edition. First US edition, hardcover, has a small lean to the binding, very light bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, slight sunning to the spine and cover edges, mild dust-dulling to the edges of the text block with a hint of wear to the edges of a few pages, and a faint area of effaced markings at the upper corner of the first free end page. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight Near Very Good copy in a like, price-clipped dust jacket, which has bumps with short tears and tiny chips to the spine ends and corners, some creasing and wear along the edges and folds, and faint sunning with a few small spots to the spine. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar. Seller Inventory # 107486
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High-Rise
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High-Rise
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High-Rise
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ISBN 10: 0030206510
ISBN 13: 9780030206511
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 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. Seller Inventory # 58180
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High-Rise
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ISBN 13: 9780030206511
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Henry Holt (NY) 1977 First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine in cloth spine over boards in a Very Good + DJ with light rubbing on the flap folds as well as the corner tips and at the head of the spine. Not price clipped, the original $6.95 remains intact. A solid copy of this dystopian novel. Seller Inventory # ABE-1682167821470
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High-Rise
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ISBN 13: 9780030206511
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Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. ** 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 aspeculative 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 technical issues and class conflicts escalate. Conflict : A class war erupts, turning elevators into battlegrounds and cocktail parties into marauding attacks as residents revert to primal, violent instincts. Themes : The narrative serves as a chilling commentary on societal fragmentation, urban decay, and the psychological effects of architecture and isolation. The residents, rather than leaving the building, embrace the chaos and self-destruction. Seller Inventory # 238
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High-Rise
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American edition, 1977; first printing. Hardback in dust jacket. 204pp. Publisher's half-cloth boards. Foxing to head of text block and board edges; with a few spots to fore-edge. Jacket rubbed with some creasing and chipping to edges and folds. Jacket illustration by Carlos Ochagavia. *** A very good first US printing of Ballard's classic novel High-Rise, published two years after the first UK edition. Seller Inventory # 900871
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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Publisher: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, NYC., 1977. First Edition, First Printing. FINE hardcover book in FINE dust-jacket. PRISTINE. As New. Unread. NOT marked. NOT price-clipped. NOT remainder marked. NOT faded. NOT a book club edition. NOT an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves. Seller Inventory # SKU1013506