His Monkey Wife, Or, Married to a Chimp with Hilary Knight's bookplate

by John Collier

$100 · Offered by Back Creek Books

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 185 pages. Brilliant satirical novel about Alfred Fatigay, a London schoolmaster, who returns from the Congo with a pet chimpanzee named Emily which he plans to give to his fiancée, Amy. Unbeknownst to Alfred, Emily has become literate and fallen in love with him and when she meets Amy--a modern woman of the 1920s--Emily plots to save Alfred from Amy's cold

• Binding: Hardcover

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