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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