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Rebecca -
Daphne Du Maurier
1938 - Victor Gollancz Limited, London - First Edition
‘Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.’
First edition – with the fragile dust jacket in near fine, unrestored, and thus scarce condition – of this iconic gothic mystery.
Considered du Maurier’s finest work, the novel is narrated by the second Mrs de Winters, the naive second wife of wealthy widower, Maxim de Winter, owner of the renowned estate, Manderley. As the story unfolds, the second Mrs de Winter increasingly finds herself haunted by her glamorous predecessor, Rebecca, and tormented by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs Danvers, subsequently leading her to uncover an unexpected tragedy...
Hauntingly adapted for the 1940 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Price HK$ 55,000
1938 - Victor Gollancz Limited, London - First Edition
‘Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.’First edition – with the fragile dust jacket in near fine, unrestored, and thus scarce condition – of this iconic gothic mystery.
Considered du Maurier’s finest work, the novel is narrated by the second Mrs de Winters, the naive second wife of wealthy widower, Maxim de Winter, owner of the renowned estate, Manderley. As the story unfolds, the second Mrs de Winter increasingly finds herself haunted by her glamorous predecessor, Rebecca, and tormented by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs Danvers, subsequently leading her to uncover an unexpected tragedy...
Hauntingly adapted for the 1940 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Price HK$ 55,000
Jamaica Inn -
Daphne Du Maurier
1936 - Victor Gollancz Ltd, London - First Edition
A finely bound first edition of Du Maurier's first commercially successful novel, a famous gothic masterpiece.
Jamaica Inn stands alone, stark and forbidding, on bleak Bodmin Moor, its very walls tainted with corruption. Its name was evil, and no man knew what horrors its dark shutters hid.
Turned into film and directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1939.
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Price HK$ 10,000
1936 - Victor Gollancz Ltd, London - First Edition
A finely bound first edition of Du Maurier's first commercially successful novel, a famous gothic masterpiece.Jamaica Inn stands alone, stark and forbidding, on bleak Bodmin Moor, its very walls tainted with corruption. Its name was evil, and no man knew what horrors its dark shutters hid.
Turned into film and directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1939.
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Price HK$ 10,000
The King's General - Signed and Inscribed -
Daphne Du Maurier
1946 - Victor Gollancz Ltd, London - First Edition
A fine signed first edition, inscribed 'For Frieda my friend and neighbour Daphne Du Maurier'.
A fine first edition in fine and thus scarce delicate yellow Gollancz dust jacket. Inspired by a grisly discovery in the nineteenth century, The King's General was the first of du Maurier's novels to be written at Menabilly, the model for Manderley in Rebecca.
Set in the seventeenth century, it tells the story of a country and a Cornish family riven by civil war, and features one of fiction's most original heroines. Honor Harris is only eighteen when she first meets Richard Grenvile, proud, reckless - and utterly captivating. But following a riding accident, Honor must reconcile herself to a life alone.
As Richard rises through the ranks of the army, marries and makes enemies, Honor remains true to him, and finally discovers the secret of Menabilly...
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Price HK$ 15,000
1946 - Victor Gollancz Ltd, London - First Edition
A fine signed first edition, inscribed 'For Frieda my friend and neighbour Daphne Du Maurier'. A fine first edition in fine and thus scarce delicate yellow Gollancz dust jacket. Inspired by a grisly discovery in the nineteenth century, The King's General was the first of du Maurier's novels to be written at Menabilly, the model for Manderley in Rebecca.
Set in the seventeenth century, it tells the story of a country and a Cornish family riven by civil war, and features one of fiction's most original heroines. Honor Harris is only eighteen when she first meets Richard Grenvile, proud, reckless - and utterly captivating. But following a riding accident, Honor must reconcile herself to a life alone.
As Richard rises through the ranks of the army, marries and makes enemies, Honor remains true to him, and finally discovers the secret of Menabilly...
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Price HK$ 15,000
Rebecca -
Daphne Du Maurier
1938 - Victor Gollancz Limited, London - First Edition
‘Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.’
A finely bound first edition of this iconic gothic mystery.
Considered du Maurier’s finest work, the novel is narrated by the second Mrs de Winters, the naive second wife of wealthy widower, Maxim de Winter, owner of the renowned estate, Manderley. As the story unfolds, the second Mrs de Winter increasingly finds herself haunted by her glamorous predecessor, Rebecca, and tormented by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs Danvers, subsequently leading her to uncover an unexpected tragedy...
Hauntingly adapted for the 1940 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Price HK$ 10,000
1938 - Victor Gollancz Limited, London - First Edition
‘Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.’A finely bound first edition of this iconic gothic mystery.
Considered du Maurier’s finest work, the novel is narrated by the second Mrs de Winters, the naive second wife of wealthy widower, Maxim de Winter, owner of the renowned estate, Manderley. As the story unfolds, the second Mrs de Winter increasingly finds herself haunted by her glamorous predecessor, Rebecca, and tormented by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs Danvers, subsequently leading her to uncover an unexpected tragedy...
Hauntingly adapted for the 1940 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Price HK$ 10,000
My Cousin Rachel -
Daphne Du Maurier
1951 - Victor Gollancz Ltd, London - First Edition
Finely bound first edition of this historical intrigue from a master storyteller; 'My Cousin Rachel' is a tale of obsession set in nineteenth century Cornwall. Described by Julie Myerson of The Guardian as a ‘tightly plotted, sinuous and undeniably feral piece of work’.
The basis for two Hollywood film adaptations starring Olivia de Havilland and Richard Burton (1952) and Rachel Weisz (2017).
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Price HK$ 4,000
1951 - Victor Gollancz Ltd, London - First Edition
Finely bound first edition of this historical intrigue from a master storyteller; 'My Cousin Rachel' is a tale of obsession set in nineteenth century Cornwall. Described by Julie Myerson of The Guardian as a ‘tightly plotted, sinuous and undeniably feral piece of work’.The basis for two Hollywood film adaptations starring Olivia de Havilland and Richard Burton (1952) and Rachel Weisz (2017).
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Jorkens Remembers Africa -
Lord Dunsany [pseud. Edward Plunkett]
1934 - Longmans Green and Co., New York - Toronto - First Edition
A fine edition of Lord Dunsany’s second collection of ‘extraordinary’ short stories recounted by the enterprising and adventurous Jorkens at the Billiard Club. In the delicate dust jacket, without repairs or restoration.
‘Extraordinary’ as indicated by the fabulous Allen Lewis illustration of Jorkens fending off a unicorn with his hunting rifle which adorns the dust jacket and also the illustrated title page.
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Price HK$ 4,600
1934 - Longmans Green and Co., New York - Toronto - First Edition
A fine edition of Lord Dunsany’s second collection of ‘extraordinary’ short stories recounted by the enterprising and adventurous Jorkens at the Billiard Club. In the delicate dust jacket, without repairs or restoration.‘Extraordinary’ as indicated by the fabulous Allen Lewis illustration of Jorkens fending off a unicorn with his hunting rifle which adorns the dust jacket and also the illustrated title page.
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Price HK$ 4,600
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me -
Richard Fariña
1966 - Random House, New York - First Edition
First edition of ‘the classic novel of the 1960s an unerring, corrosively comic depiction of a campus in revolt
Fariña evokes the Sixties as precisely, wittily, and poignantly as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the Jazz Age. The hero, Gnossus Pappadopoulis, weaves his way through the psychedelic landscape, encountering, among other things, mescaline, women, art, gluttony, falsehood, science, prayer, and, occasionally, truth. A portrait of an explosive decade, sparkling with inventive writing and conveying the essence of a generation.’
‘Coming on like the Hallelujah Chorus done by 200 kazoo players with perfect pitch... hilarious, chilling, sexy, profound, maniacal, beautiful, and outrageous all at the same time.’ – Thomas Pynchon.
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1966 - Random House, New York - First Edition
First edition of ‘the classic novel of the 1960s an unerring, corrosively comic depiction of a campus in revoltFariña evokes the Sixties as precisely, wittily, and poignantly as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the Jazz Age. The hero, Gnossus Pappadopoulis, weaves his way through the psychedelic landscape, encountering, among other things, mescaline, women, art, gluttony, falsehood, science, prayer, and, occasionally, truth. A portrait of an explosive decade, sparkling with inventive writing and conveying the essence of a generation.’
‘Coming on like the Hallelujah Chorus done by 200 kazoo players with perfect pitch... hilarious, chilling, sexy, profound, maniacal, beautiful, and outrageous all at the same time.’ – Thomas Pynchon.
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Murder at a Police Station -
Jefferson Farjeon
1943 - The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis - First Edition
A fine first edition in fine and thus rare example of the evocative dust jacket.
By the author who Dorothy L. Sayers described as being ‘unsurpassed for creepy skill in mysterious adventures’.
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Price HK$ 3,000
1943 - The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis - First Edition
A fine first edition in fine and thus rare example of the evocative dust jacket.By the author who Dorothy L. Sayers described as being ‘unsurpassed for creepy skill in mysterious adventures’.
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Price HK$ 3,000