LA PLANETE DES SINGES

by Pierre Boulle

$1,250 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

Paris : Le Cercle du Nouveau Livre, 1963 . Octavo, green cloth stamped in gold and blind. First edition. Number 507 of an unstated limitation. Published in English as PLANET OF THE APES 1963 . Basis for two films and numerous sequels. Boulle made the Earth astronauts' visit to a far planet where apes are the dominant species and humans a despised underclass a parable of racial and other social failings on Earth ... -

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