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Rebecca: 'a new novel'
by Daphne du Maurier
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Fine
- Seller
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Collaroy Plateau, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Daphne Du Maurier
Rebecca 'a new novel' Victor Gollancz, London 1938 Hardcover. 28th imp Apr 1942.
A lovely wartime copy of the iconic and famous novel by Du Maurier, a worn copy with a facsimile replacement yellow jacket copied from the original. Smaller copy on rougher paper that looks like it was produced economically during wartime rationing. This would still make somebody a wonderful gift.
Condition: Good. Cloth boards are rubbed edge worn, inside hinges are sound. Clean internally apart from a name and date neatly written on the front free endpaper.
About: Rebecca is a 1938 Gothic novel written by English author Daphne du Maurier. The novel depicts an unnamed young woman who impetuously marries a wealthy widower, before discovering that both he and his household are haunted by the memory of his late first wife, the title character. A bestseller which has never gone out of print, Rebecca sold 2.8 million copies between its publication in 1938 and 1965. It has been adapted numerous times for stage and screen, including a 1939 play by du Maurier herself, the film Rebecca (1940), directed by Alfred Hitchcock, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and the 2020 remake directed by Ben Wheatley for Netflix. The story is also a successful musical production. The novel is remembered for the character Mrs Danvers, the West Country estate Manderley, and its opening line: "Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again."
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
- Dorian Gallery
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1934454994838
- Title
- Rebecca
- Author
- Daphne du Maurier
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st UK, 28th imp
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Gollancz
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1942
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Dorian Gallery
Biblio member since 2020
Collaroy Plateau, New South Wales
About Dorian Gallery
Dorian Gallery is a bookshop and gallery in northern Sydney specialising in rare books and fine art. www.doriangallery.com
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