Super-Cannes material comprises: complete autograph manuscript; draft passges in typescript; an incomplete typescript (commencing in chapter 7); and some brief correspondence concerning 'editorial queries' and the text of the publisher's blurb.
Autograph draft manuscript, and final typescript. With additional draft typescript material, some related correspondence between Ballard and the publisher, and a set of corrected page proofs.
Two typescripts of Crash, both revised by hand. The typescript here referred to as 'Typescript 1' is the earlier and more heavily revised text. 'Typescript 2' (entitled 'Crash!') is a much 'cleaner' typescript and appears to incorporate many of the revisions in 'Typescript 1'.
A complete early or first draft autograph manuscript, here physically divided into four files. With a file of cuttings from New Scientist (1 and 29 November 1979), originally retained with the manuscript.
Various examples of Ballard's occasional prose, as follows: A single typescript sheet (numbered 2). Discusses Michel Siffre's underground isolation experiment (1962) when he spent sixty days in the Scarasson Cavern. The sheet is the latter portion of a review of Siffre, Beyond Time (1964), publi...
1. Single sheet cutting (fragment) from Prospect (January 1998) concerning Lady Diana Spencer ('the canonisation of Diana painfully illustrates the decline of rational political feminism'). 2. Typed quotations from Robert O Paxton, Anatomy of Fascism (2004) together with a set of related notes ...
A synopsis and two draft typescripts, both heavily revised by hand. Neither typescript is dated. On the basis of textual evidence, the earliest typescript has been designated 'Typescript 1'.