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DU MAURIER, Daphne.. Jamaica Inn. FIRST EDITION.. , 1936.
Price: US$386.48 + shipping
Description: Victor Gollancz Ltd. London. 1936. First edition. No DW. Original light blue cloth, slightly mottled, spine slightly sunned with small (1cm) split at joint at head. Slight lean to spine. Inner hinge very slightly visible. Outer edge of pages foxed, top edge marked and prelims very foxed otherwise contents clean.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
DU MAURIER, Daphne. Jamaica Inn. London: Victor Gollancz, 1936.
Price: US$644.13 + shipping
Description: First edition, 8vo, 351, (1) pp. Contemporary inscription to fly leaf. Original light blue cloth, spine and edges with light browning.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
du Maurier, Daphne. Jamaica Inn. Victor Gollancz Limited, London, 1936.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine lettered in darker blue. Very Good with lean to binding, cloth lightly soiled, lightly spine-toned, former owner name and date to front free endpaper, and pages toned.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Jamaica Inn" by Daphne Du Maurier. 1st UK (Victor Gollancz) & 1st US edition (Doubleday) 1936, each volume with half-title, US edition title illustration hand coloured, some spotting, mainly to margins of the UK edition, both bound in recent full morocco novelty bindings in the form of a gentleman's jacket, with button front, the UK edition in blue and red morocco, the US edition in red and black morocco, gilt red and gilt black spine label respectively. Unique set.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
DU MAURIER (Daphne).. Jamaica Inn.. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1936.
Price: US$1932.39 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo. [190 x 125 x 31 mm]. 351pp. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in dark blue in original yellow dust-wrappers printed in black and red (wrapper town with loss at head of spine, which is darkened, sides soiled). Occasional scattered foxing or spotting, including to the half-title and title, and the dust-wrapper has seen better days, but it is present and correct (with price 7/6) and unrestored. Previous owner's neat ink initials inside front cover. Jamaica Inn was Daphne Du Maurier's fourth novel and her most successful work to date, selling more copies in three months than her previous works had sold in total. The atmospheric tale of eighteenth century smugglers was inspired by a visit to to the real Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor several years earlier. During her stay Daphne and a friend were lost on the moor in bad weather and forced to shelter in an abandoned cottage, before eventually finding their way back to the inn. Much of the novel was written away from Cornwall, at a time when she was struggling to adjust to her new role as an army wife. In her imagination Cornwall becomes a Gothic landscape and the familiar Gothic plot of a heroine under threat in a sinister edifice allowed her to explore themes of freedom and nonconformity. Jamaica Inn was influenced by Du Maurier's early reading of boys' adventure stories such as Treasure Island and her admiration for the Brontes' fiction, particularly Wuthering Heights. Combining elements of both, she created a work which has itself become a part of Cornish legend.
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
DU MAURIER, Daphne.. Jamaica Inn.. London: Victor Gollancz, 1936, 1936.
Price: US$2576.53 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression. The novel harnesses Du Maurier's "strengths in narrative drive and the evocation of atmosphere" (ODNB). The work was an instant best-seller and within three months had sold in England more than her three first novels combined, making it her first commercial success. The work's namesake was a traditional inn on Bodmin Moor at which Du Maurier stayed on numerous occasions. Du Maurier first encountered it while riding on the moor on a foggy day with her close friend Foy Quiller-Couch, daughter of the author Arthur Quiller-Couch. The still extant inn has become somewhat of a pilgrimage location for her fans. A film adaptation of the novel was produced in 1939 by Alfred Hitchcock. The film differs from the book in several respects and, while Du Maurier was consequently not a fan, helped establish her literary reputation. Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Daphne Du Maurier. Jamaica Inn. Victor Gollancz, 1936.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Jamaica Inn" by Daphne Du Maurier. Victor Gollancz, London. 1936 first UK edition first printing, signed by the author on endpaper, ink gift inscription in another hand "M. M. Chatterton Easter 1936 from L. W. S." to front free endpaper, light edge-spotting occasionally straying to margins, light browning to half-title and rear endpaper, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, light sunning to spine, 8vo, 1936. Very rare to find signed copies of one of Du Maurier's greatest works.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$23000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Jamaica Inn" by Daphne Du Maurier. Victor Gollancz, London. 1936 first UK edition first printing. Signed presentation inscription from the author to her governess "Tod - with love from Daphne. Xmas 1935" to endpaper. Book in good condition with original first issue dust jacket in good condition, potting to first and last few pp., some light tape staining to endpapers and pastedowns, original cloth, spine slightly sunning with short split to head and light staining to foot, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, spine with 1" portion of restoration to head affecting title, foot of spine and corners a little chipped, some light chipping and fraying to head of panels, small chips to fore-edges, light rubbing and surface soiling. Maud Waddell worked as one of several governesses for the Du Maurier children and she is now regarded as having had an important formative influence on Daphne in particular. Waddell (or, "Tod" as she was nicknamed by the children after the Beatrix Potter character) was a strong, independently-minded woman who instilled in Du Maurier a passion for reading and encouraged her early writing. Writing in her memoirs, Du Maurier recounts some early influences from Waddell's recommendations: "Wilde filled my reading hours, but a more lasting impression was made by the stories of Katherine Mansfield, introduced to me by Tod who had a brother in New Zealand, and I felt instinctively that if I could only one day in the distant future write some sketch that might compare, however humbly, to hers, I need not despair." . Waddell later became a close friend and confidant, and would even serve as governess for Du Maurier's own children many years later. - Du Maurier, Myself When Young: The Shaping of a Writer, 1977. This is an extremely rare inscribed presentation copy given by Du Maurier to her favorite governess before publication. This is one of the most sought after inscribed copies of Du Maurier's first successful novel.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands