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First edition in English, first printing. The novel was first published in French as La Planète des singes earlier the same year. It was adapted into a film in 1968, starring Charlton Heston, which has given rise to numerous sequels and reboots. Octavo. Original black quarter cloth, spine lettered in orange, white, and grey, white paper-covered boards, three circles to front cover in orange, white, and grey, orange endpapers, top edge orange. With dust jacket. Hint of rubbing to cloth, a couple of tiny chips to upper margin of first pages; unclipped jacket lightly toned, small nicks and creases to extremities: a near-fine copy in near-fine jacket.

Planet of the Apes is a classic science fiction novel by Pierre Boulle that tells the story of Ulysse Mérou, a French journalist who ends up on a distant planet where intelligent apes dominate the primitive human race.