Rebecca
by Du Maurier, Daphne
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/N/A
- Seller
-
Albany, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1939. First Edition/Early Printing. Hardcover. Good/N/A. An early printing in scarlet cloth and silver pictorial band with some rubbing to band at spine edges. Top page ends tinted blue with a coupe scars and tanning to other page ends. Some scuffs/marks to boards. Top rear corner bumped. Tanning to endpapers which is common, previous owner's name and date to ffep and price stamp to rear pastedown, otherwise clean interior with tight binding. In brand new high quality facsimile jacket.
Synopsis
An orphaned young woman working as a maid is swept off her feet by a wealthy widowed Englishman, and quickly married him. But when she arrives at his estate she learns she pales in comparison with his seemingly perfect deceased first wife Rebecca, especially in the eyes of the sinister housekeeper Mrs. Danvers. When Rebecca’s body is found on her shipwrecked boat the dark secrets held by the husband are discovered as well. Rebecca has had many adaptations in film, radio, and television, the most famous being the Academy-Award Winning Hitchcock adaptation released in 1940. Du Maurier wrote the novel in a reported 4 months. Her publisher, Gollancz, expected the book to be successful and ordered 20,000 copies for the first print run. Within a month the novel had sold twice that.
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Reviews
I find Maurier's work to be expertly descriptive and eloquently expressed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lost Paddle Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LPB007772DD
- Title
- Rebecca
- Author
- Du Maurier, Daphne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- N/A
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition/Early Printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- British Literature;
Terms of Sale
Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
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About the Seller
Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
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