Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier - 1938

VERY GOOD condition — DUST JACKET: Wear & tear to top and bottom edges of spine, panels, flaps and folds. Chipping to top and bottom of spine and corresponding corners of same, primarily top. Minor chipping to all outside corners of panels. Minor scratches to spine; stressing marks at folds, both panels; one inch void to laminate face, front panel. Several closed tears to top and bottom edge of back panel, primarily top. Price clipped. Several old tape repairs on reverse. In first 2 pics, a paper insert is placed inside for improved appearance. BOARDS: Very good condition. Minor shelf rubbing, front and back, primarily the latter. Silver foil band unbroken and in very good condition. BOOK: Very good condition. Stains to textblock head and foot, primarily the latter. Offsetting to endpapers. Ink markings top of FFEP. Please inspect photos closely for condition details. If unsure, please ask.

Here on offer is a very nice copy of Daphne du Maurier's gothic novel, Rebecca, which was published in 1938 and has never gone out of print. This is a 1st American edition, early 1939 printing of the work published by Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York. The dust jacket is protected from further wear by a Mylar sleeve.

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"Working as a lady's companion, the orphaned heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Life begins to look very bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. Whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to his brooding estate, Manderley, on the Cornish Coast, the new Mrs de Winter finds Max a changed man. And the memory of his dead wife Rebecca is forever kept alive by the forbidding Mrs Danvers . . . Not since Jane Eyre has a heroine faced such difficulty with the Other Woman. An international bestseller that has never gone out of print, 'Rebecca' is the haunting story of a young girl consumed by love and the struggle to find her identity."

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Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, DBE (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English novelist, biographer and playwright. Her parents were actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and his wife, actress Muriel Beaumont. Her grandfather was George du Maurier, a writer and cartoonist.Although du Maurier is classed as a romantic novelist, her stories have been described as "moody and resonant" with overtones of the paranormal.

Her bestselling works were not at first taken seriously by critics, but they have since earned an enduring reputation for narrative craft. Many have been successfully adapted into films, including the novels Rebecca, Frenchman's Creek, My Cousin Rachel and Jamaica Inn, and the short stories "The Birds" and "Don't Look Now". Du Maurier spent much of her life in Cornwall, where most of her works are set. As her fame increased, she became more reclusive.

. . . The novel Rebecca (1938) was du Maurier's most successful work. It was an immediate hit, selling nearly 3 million copies between 1938 and 1965. The novel has never gone out of print. In the United States, du Maurier won the National Book Award for favourite novel of 1938, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association. In the UK, it was listed at number 14 of the "nation's best-loved novel"s on the BBC's 2003 survey The Big Read.

The above text was taken from, respectively, Little, Brown Book Group (via Google Books) and Wikipedia.