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Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket.įirst edition in English of the novel that became David Lean’s Academy Award-winning film, starring Alec Guinness and William Holden.īased on his own experiences as a Japanese prisoner-of-war in Indochina, Pierre Boulle’s 1952 novel, Le Pont de la Riviere Kwai, won the Prix Sainte-Beuve. “I’LL BUILD THAT BRIDGE OVER THE PRISONERS’ DEAD BODIES”: FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAIīOULLE, Pierre.
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