PIERRE BOULLE. [Richard Adams]: The Bridge on the River Kwai. A novel. Translated from the French of 'Le Pont de la Rivière Kwai' by Xan Fielding

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PIERRE BOULLE. [Richard Adams] : The Bridge on the River Kwai. A novel. Translated from the French of 'Le Pont de la Rivière Kwai' by Xan Fielding

Secker & Warburg, London, 1954

The first English edition (first printing). 8vo. 170pp. Green cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Issued without endpapers. Several small areas of discolouration to the cloth where the dust wrapper is defective. Edges and half-title (serving is the front free endpaper) lightly spotted and with a small area of miscellaneous light staining to the margins of one or two text leaves. Handsome bookplate of 'Watership Down' author Richard Adams to the front pastedown, along side a small dealer plate. A very good copy in non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper; alas a somewhat distressed example - chipped with an inch of loss from the head of the spine panel (impacting four of the title letters), and with three more smaller areas of edge-loss, some dust soiling, some chafing to the natural folds and several short tears with accompanying creasing. Boulle's semi-fictional Secord World War classic, partly based on his own experiences working in Malaysian rubber plantations and his later work with the allied forces in Singapore and Indochina. Fielding also served as the translator for Boulle's science fiction classic 'La Planète des Singes' (1963), his English-language version issued under the title 'Monkey Planet', and subsequently re-issued as 'Planet of the Apes'. No rabbits in sight.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fair

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