Rebecca
Price: $11,000.00
Hard Cover. London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1938. First Edition. Near Fine / Dust Jacket Included.
First edition, first printing. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt; in the original pale yellow dust jacket, lettered and ruled in black and magenta. Near fine book, with clean cloth, heavy spotting to text block edges, and traces of yellowed tape to front and rear free endpapers; near fine dust jacket, with 8/7 price to spine, some toning to spine and panel edges, shallow chipping to head of spine, and tape residue to flaps. Overall, a wonderful, sturdy copy of du Maurier's Gothic masterpiece. Rebecca is a haunting, dream-like novel that opens with the iconic line, "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." The plot is narrated by the second Mrs. de Winters, the new wife of wealthy widower Maxim de Winters, who used to live at his country estate Manderley with his first wife, Rebecca. Throughout the novel, the narrator is tormented by Rebecca's former nursemaid, the sinister Mrs. Danvers, who glorifies her former mistress and attempts to break up the newlywed de Winters. However, "To suggest the story in brief compass is impossible. The reader must experience the atmosphere of impending disaster, the exquisite love story with its emotion heightened by drama, the surprises, the superb moment of melodrama" (Doubleday & Co.). Rebecca, du Maurier's most famous novel, was adapted into the notable 1940 film by Alfred Hitchcock. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. Item #DDM006
