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Rebecca.

by DU MAURIER, Daphne

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About This Item

Victor Gollancz, London., 1938. First edition. Octavo. 446 pages.Bookplate on front free endpaper. Edges spotted. Cover slightly bumped at head and tail of spine and at two corners. Very good indeed in very good indeed, slightly spotted dustwrapper faintly faded at the spine and very slightly nicked. Rare in such a presentable dustwrapper.

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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On May 12 2016, a reader said:
I find Maurier's work to be expertly descriptive and eloquently expressed.

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Peter Ellis bookseller GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
DUMAURIE010742
Title
Rebecca.
Author
DU MAURIER, Daphne
Book Condition
Used
Publisher
Victor Gollancz, London.
Date Published
1938

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First Edition
In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Tail
The heel of the spine.
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....
Dustwrapper
Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
Octavo
Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Edges
The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...

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