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Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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Uncasville, Connecticut, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Doubleday Doran hardcover edition in dust jacket; a 1938 Literary Guild club edition in full maroon cloth with decorative silver band as the trade edition; no prior owner marks; age tone to text pages, offsetting to paste-downs, darkening along gutters; sound binding but slight lean to spine; dj poor: two inch chip at spine head, shallow chipping at spine heel, a small chip lower front, few short tears, rubbing and small chipping along rear fold; tape repairs to dj verso (will furnish mylar dj protector) B18bibeb
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
On May 12 2016, a reader said:
I find Maurier's work to be expertly descriptive and eloquently expressed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- DrPanglossBooks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12216
- Title
- Rebecca
- Author
- Daphne du Maurier
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday Doran Literary Guild
- Date Published
- 1938
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
DrPanglossBooks
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Uncasville, Connecticut
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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