Pierre Boulle

Planet of the Apes

£55

Illustrated By David de las Heras

Introduced By Frans de Waal

Translated By Xan Fielding

The sci-fi adventure that launched a global franchise, Planet of the Apes is given a timely Folio release with David de las Heras’s spectacular artwork and a thought-provoking introduction by primatologist Frans de Waal.

Planet of the Apes

£55

Book Details

Presentation Box & BindingQuarter-bound in blocked cloth with printed paper sides
Plain slipcase

Dimensions9½ inches x 6¼ inches

FontSet in Sabon with Avant Garde Gothic display

Pages192 pages

AuthorPierre Boulle

Illustrated ByDavid de las Heras

IllustrationFrontispiece and 6 colour illustrations, including 2 double–page spreads

Publication Date11/03/2020

Editor's Notes

Holding up a mirror to humanity, this sci-fi masterpiece poses pertinent ethical questions while sending readers on an action-packed intergalactic adventure. First published in 1963, Planet of the Apes spawned a global media franchise: an Oscar-nominated film was followed by four sequels, while reboots and remakes, television series and comics saw its popularity skyrocket. Returning to its literary origins, the first illustrated edition of Xan Fielding’s classic translation sees the bold impact of David de las Heras’s artwork, adding to the credibility of Pierre Boulle’s story. Meanwhile, the unnerving moral allegory is explored by world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal, in a specially commissioned introduction.

About the Illustrator

David De Las Heras

David de las Heras has a bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country, and graduated in Illustration at the Escola Massana, in Barcelona. His paintings have been exhibited in several countries including Spain, Portugal and Germany, and as an illustrator he has published several books, including recently illustrating ‘The Tiger’, a story by Joël Dicker. His editorial work for newspapers includes El País, the cultural supplement of ABC and several covers for El País Semanal. In 2015 he won best book cover at the Junceda Awards for Kalimán en Jericó, published by Bambú.

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Pierre Boulle (1912–94) was a French engineer and novelist. Born in Avignon, he studied at the prestigious Ecole supérieure d’électricité where he received an engineer’s degree in 1933. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was working as an engineer on the rubber plantations in Malaya, but soon became a secret agent with the Free French in Singapore, where he was captured by the Japanese army and subjected to two years’ forced labour. He was later made a chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur and was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Médaille de la Résistance. After the war Boulle went on to produce over 20 novels and several short story collections, receiving most acclaim for Le Pont de la rivière Kwaï (1952; The Bridge over the River Kwai) and La Planète des singes (1963; Planet of the Apes), both of which became international bestsellers and were adapted into Oscar-winning films.

Frans de Waal is a Dutch/American primatologist, ethologist, author and the C. H. Candler Professor Emeritus at Emory University, Atlanta. His many popular books on primates include Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes (1982), Our Inner Ape (2005) and Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (2016). He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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