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Hardcover, brown faux leather, with spine decorated and lettered in gold. Bright salmon endpapers. 253pp., First thus by this publisher. The plot involves Charlie, a laboratory chimpanze, who while incubating a devestating plague bacillus, effects his escape from the Ministry of Defense’s Biological Research station where he resides. Now alight in the idyllic Wessex countryside an all out–though decidedly discreet- search is launched before a deadly time bomb goes off amongst an unsuspecting populace. A wonderfully droll anti-war, anti-government screed, not Orwell but entertaining never the less. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, attractive, copy.which has one small, nearly invisible blemish to front board, else as new. Near fine.