Planet of the Apes (La Planète des singes)

The French Julliard 1963 edition is the true first; the census claim is correct, but the title trap is three-way and the US precedes the UK. First edition in English and first US: Planet of the Apes, The Vanguard Press, New York, June 1963, translated by Xan Fielding — black quarter cloth over grey paper boards, orange lettering to the spine, circles to the front board, in a priced jacket (price present at the flap). First UK: Monkey Planet, Secker & Warburg, London, January 1964, same Fielding translation, 223 pp, jacket designed by Margaret Eastoe, in a priced jacket (price present at the flap); 'singes' carries both 'monkeys' and 'apes' in French, which is why the two English titles diverge. Secker & Warburg's August 1973 reissue retitled Planet of the Apes to match the film is a 'first thus', not a first edition, and is the commonest misattribution for this book.