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Daphne du Maurier. Rebecca. London: Victor Gollancz, 1938....
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Daphne du Maurier. Rebecca. London: Victor Gollancz, 1938.8vo. Publisher's black cloth, gilt-lettered on upper cover and spine; original yellow dust jacket, printed in lavender and black.
FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title-page. Du Maurier's most important work, this haunting thriller won the National Book Award for fiction in 1938. The book served as the source material for a number of adaptations to film, television, radio, theatre, opera, and similar works, but perhaps is best remembered for the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock classic, his first American film project. The film starred Laurence Olivier as the mysterious Maxim de Winter and Joan Fontaine as the second Mrs. de Winter and released to major critical and commercial success. The film garnered an incredible eleven Academy Award nominations, of which it won Best Picture (the only Hitchcock film to do so) and Best Cinematography. The film was selected in 2018 for preservation by the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
Condition: Cloth with a touch of dust-soiling at edges; some light foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Some very slight marginal toning. Dust jacket with 8/6 price on spine, with spine panel and flap folds very slightly toned; very minor soiling. A very good copy in a fine unchipped dust jacket with less toning and edgewear than usually found.
References: A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.
Provenance: Mabel Anderson Burghard (bookplate). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
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2025 December 15 Rare Books Signature® Auction #6323 (go to Auction Home page)
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