Congo

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. Green printed wrappers with publisher’s promotional material taped to recto and stapled to verso of top wrapper. An excellent copy. Uncorrected proof of Crichton’s fifth novel, which was made into a popular Paramount film. He took his inspiration from H. Rider Haggard’s adventure story, King Solomon’s mines, and modeled his main character, Amy the gorilla, after the true sign-language-using gorilla Koko.