Lot 313
  • 313

Du Maurier, Daphne.

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Description

  • Rebecca. Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1938
8vo, first edition, original black cloth, dust-jacket (price 8/6 on spine), local library label affixed to upper paste-down, slight staining and rubbing to binding, jacket slightly torn near base of the spine, a few other nicks, some minor browning and staining

Literature

Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone

Condition

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Catalogue Note

First edition of du Maurier's most celebrated novel, the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 film -- his first in  America -- starring Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders and Judith Anderson.