Mervyn Peake; J. G. Ballard; Brian W. Aldiss — The Inner Landscape

London, Allison & Busby , 1969. First edition. Cloth. A handsome first edition uniting Peake, Ballard and Aldiss, three distinctive voices in 20th-century British fantastic literature, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding.  Complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper.  First edition.  The first edition of this striking anthology bringing together three novellas by major figures of 20th-century British fantastic and speculative fiction. The collection comprises Mervyn Peake's Boy in Darkness, J. G. Ballard's The Voices of Time, and Brian W. Aldiss's Danger: Religion!. Peake's contribution returns to the strange, claustrophobic world associated with his celebrated Gormenghast novels, while Ballard and Aldiss offer characteristically unsettling works of speculative fiction In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, lovely. Slight bumping to tail of spine. Dust wrapper, excellent. Spine faded. slight discolouration and fading to extremities. Very minor edge wear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.