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Planet of the Apes
by Pierre Boulle
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Waccabuc, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1963. Boards. Very Good/Very Good. A perfectly presentable copy of the 1963 1st American edition (translated from its original French by Xan Fielding). Solid and VG (light staining along the pastedown and endpaper top-edges, mild staining at the top-edge) in a crisp, price-intact ($4.50), VG dustjacket, with light wear and soiling along the edges (including the flap-edges) and very light chipping at the spine ends. Fading as well to the spine. Stil though, an appealing copy. Octavo, the book that started the entire franchise.
Synopsis
Pierre Boulle was born in Avignon, France in 1912. He originally trained as an engineer, but in 1936 went to Malaysia as a rubber planter. In 1939 he was called up in the French forces in Indochina. When France fell during World War II, he fled to Singapore, where he joined the Free French Mission. After the Japanese invasion, he was sent via Rangoon and the Burma Road to Yunnan to establish contact with Kuomintang forces. He infiltrated Indochina as a guerilla where he was captured in 1943. He escaped in 1944, was picked up by a British plane, and served in the Special Forces in Calcutta for the rest of the war. His first novel published in the United States was The Bridge on the River Kwai . It was awarded the Prix Ste. Beuve in France, and led to the motion picture that received an amazing seven Academy Awards. He considered his subsequent books, of which Planet of the Apes is the most well-known, to be social fantasies.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21543
- Title
- Planet of the Apes
- Author
- Pierre Boulle
- Format/Binding
- Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Vanguard Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- rare first editions, rare modern literature, rare modern first editions, rare Pierre Boulle, Planet of the Apes
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
Appledore Books, ABAA
All books are offered subject to prior sale. Materials are returnable within 1 week of receipt provided prior notice is given.
About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Waccabuc, New York
About Appledore Books, ABAA
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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