J.G. Ballard Autographs
James Graham Ballard (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009) was an English novelist and short-story writer, satirist and essayist known for psychologically provocative works of fiction that explore the relations between human psychology, technology, sex and mass media. Ballard first became associated with New Wave science fiction for post-apocalyptic novels such as The Drowned World (1962). He later courted controversy with the short-story collection The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), which includes the 1968 story "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan", and later the novel Crash (1973), a story about car-crash fetishists.
In 1984, Ballard won broad critical recognition for the war novel Empire of the Sun, a semi-autobiographical story of the experiences of a British boy during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai. Three years later, the American film director Steven Spielberg adapted the novel into a film of the same name. The novelist's journey from youth to mid-age is chronicled, with fictional inflections, in The Kindness of Women (1991), and in the autobiography Miracles of Life (2008). Some of Ballard's early novels have been adapted as films, including Crash (1996), directed by David Cronenberg, and High-Rise (2015), an adaptation of the 1975 novel directed by Ben Wheatley.
From the distinct nature of the literary fiction of J. G. Ballard arose the adjective Ballardian, defined as: "resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in J. G. Ballard's novels and stories, especially dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes, and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments". The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes the novelist Ballard as preoccupied with "Eros, Thanatos, mass media and emergent technologies".
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The most expensive item with a signature of J.G. Ballard (High-Rise ~ SIGNED by J. G. BALLARD ~ First American Edition ~ 1st Printing 1975) was sold in July 2025 for $1,250.00 while the cheapest item (DALI WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J. G. BALLARD EDITED BY DAVID LARKIN (SIGNED) 1974) found a new owner for $2.00 in August 2021. The month with the most items sold (7) was February 2025 with an average selling price of $91.70 for an autographed item of J.G. Ballard. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in October 2025 with $419.97 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $2.00 was August 2021. In average, an autographed item from J.G. Ballard is worth $120.00.
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