Correspondence referring to Cocaine Nights (blurb), Kingdom Come (cover design), The Crystal World (cover design) and Miracles of Life (editing, BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, blurb and cover design).
A. J G Ballard's desk (at Shepperton), showing a Remington Travel-Riter Deluxe typewriter, transistor radio and various papers. On the back wall, a poster for an Italian exhibition (1967-68) of surrealist works indicates the earliest possible date of the photograph. Black and white, 145 x 200mm,...
1. Pauline [Macaulay], London (3 March 2008, with envelope including a brief message on the verso), a letter prompted by Miracles of Life. 2. Michael Manser, postcard (24 September 1997, showing image of London Heathrow Hilton): 'I have to write to thank you for the superlative remarks you keep...
1. Five spiral-bound notepads containing, for the most part, notes for a projected novel concerning a world war referred to as 'WVA' [World Versus America]: 'A backstory would describe the US imperial reach & attacks on other countries - its threats, use of force etc. The events that have br...
Part of a continuous and complete autograph draft manuscript. In blue ink, and heavily revised in blue and red ink throughout. Some sheets with writing on the versos. The sheets have been ordered and numbered by the author as follows: 1 (the opening sentence of the novel in typescript, with aut...
Final part of a continuous and complete autograph manuscript. In blue ink, and heavily revised in blue and red ink throughout. Some sheets with writing on the versos. The sheets have been ordered and numbered by the author as follows: 452-476, 478-480, 481A, 481-520; 521-571, A1-3, 571A-B, 57...
Page proofs for Kingdom Come (Fourth Estate, an imprint of Harper Collins, 2006), exhibiting occasional corrections in Ballard's hand (in red ball-point pen). Each sheet has a printed date and time header ('12/4/06 15.20'), suggesting fax transmission. Minor corrections (in the main, typograph...
Two items: 19 December 1983: a copy letter from Graham Greene to Victor Gollancz Ltd, having read Empire of the Sun 'with great interest', and providing the publisher with two appreciative sentences for quotation 'if you like'; May 2005: a 'Request for Invoice' from Guardian Newspapers Ltd regar...
Four interviews: 1. 7 November 1997. Twenty answers from Ballard (questions not included), faxed to 'Hercules' at 'Apopeira Editions'. 2 sheets, second sheet annotated and signed. 2. 12 September 1998. Six answers from Ballard (1 sheet, signed), together with fax communications from Mark Boal ...