You Shall KNown Them (First Edition)

First Edition, as stated. First printing. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket. The jacket is faded on spine and has some edge wear and a couple of small closed tears. Jean Marcel Adolphe Bruller (26 February 1902 10 June 1991) was a French writer and illustrator who co-founded Les Éditions de Minuit with Pierre de Lescure. Born to a Hungarian-Jewish father, during World War II occupation of northern France he joined the Resistance and his texts were published under the pseudonym Vercors. Several of his novels have fantasy or science fiction themes. The 1952 novel Les Animaux dénaturés (translated variously into English as You Shall Know Them, Borderline, and The Murder of the Missing Link) was made into the film Skullduggery (1970) starring Burt Reynolds and Susan Clark, and examines the question of what it means to be human. The English language version, translated by his wife Rita Barisse. A later novel was a finalist for the 1963 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Fiction, Stacks, B.