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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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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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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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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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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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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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My Cousin Rachel -
Daphne Du Maurier
1951 - Victor Gollancz Ltd, London - First Edition
Finely boudn 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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1951 - Victor Gollancz Ltd, London - First Edition
Finely boudn 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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Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea; Being the Alexandria Quartet. -
Lawrence Durrell
1957 - Faber and Faber, London - First Editions
A fine set in first issue dust jackets in superior condition.
'One of the most important works of our time.' - New York Times Book Review.
The Alexandria Quartet is Durrell’s most succesfull and admired work, at heart a sensuous and brilliant evocation of wartime Egypt.
In this world of corrupt glamour, L. G. Darley attempts to reconcile himself to the end of his affair with the dark, passionate Justine Hosnani - setting alight a beguiling exploration of sexual and political intrigue that Durrell himself described as 'an investigation of modern love'.
'A formidable, glittering achievement.' - Times Literary Supplement.
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1957 - Faber and Faber, London - First Editions
A fine set in first issue dust jackets in superior condition.'One of the most important works of our time.' - New York Times Book Review.
The Alexandria Quartet is Durrell’s most succesfull and admired work, at heart a sensuous and brilliant evocation of wartime Egypt.
In this world of corrupt glamour, L. G. Darley attempts to reconcile himself to the end of his affair with the dark, passionate Justine Hosnani - setting alight a beguiling exploration of sexual and political intrigue that Durrell himself described as 'an investigation of modern love'.
'A formidable, glittering achievement.' - Times Literary Supplement.
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The Four Quartets: Burnt Norton; East Coker; The Dry Salvages; Little Gidding -
T.S. Eliot
1941 - Faber and Faber, London - First Editions
Four first editions of what Eliot himself considered to be his finest work finely bound into one volume, housed in a matching custom slipcase.
‘Four Quartets’ is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision introduced in ’The Waste Land’. First published individually from 1936 to 1942. Here, in four linked poems (’Burnt Norton’, ‘East Coker’, ‘The Dry Salvages’, and ‘Little Gidding’), spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. It is the culminating achievement by a man many feel to be the greatest poet of the twentieth century and one of the seminal figures in the evolution of modernism.
‘Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.’ – Burnt Norton
‘In my beginning is my end.’ – East Coker
‘I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river
Is a strong brown gold – sullen, untamed and intractable...’ – Dry Salvages
‘Midwinter spring is its own season
Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown,
Suspended in time, between pole and tropic.’ – Little Gidding
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1941 - Faber and Faber, London - First Editions
Four first editions of what Eliot himself considered to be his finest work finely bound into one volume, housed in a matching custom slipcase.‘Four Quartets’ is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision introduced in ’The Waste Land’. First published individually from 1936 to 1942. Here, in four linked poems (’Burnt Norton’, ‘East Coker’, ‘The Dry Salvages’, and ‘Little Gidding’), spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. It is the culminating achievement by a man many feel to be the greatest poet of the twentieth century and one of the seminal figures in the evolution of modernism.
‘Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.’ – Burnt Norton
‘In my beginning is my end.’ – East Coker
‘I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river
Is a strong brown gold – sullen, untamed and intractable...’ – Dry Salvages
‘Midwinter spring is its own season
Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown,
Suspended in time, between pole and tropic.’ – Little Gidding
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The Dick Gibson Show - Signed -
Stanley Elkin
1971 - Random House, New York - First Edition
First edition signed by Elkin. A fine copy in fine and wonderfully illustrated dust jacket designed by Robert Korn.
National Book Award finalist: Look who's on the "Dick Gibson Radio Show": Arnold the Memory Expert ("I've memorized the entire West Coast shoreline - except for cloud cover and fog banks"). Bernie Perk, the burning pharmacist. Henry Harper, the nine-year old orphan millionaire, terrified of being adopted. The woman whose life revolves around pierced lobes. An evil hypnotist. Swindlers. Con-men. And Dick Gibson himself. Anticipating talk radio and its crazed hosts, Stanley Elkin creates a brilliant comic world held together by American manias and maniacs in all their forms, and a character who perfectly understands what Americans want and gives it to them.
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1971 - Random House, New York - First Edition
First edition signed by Elkin. A fine copy in fine and wonderfully illustrated dust jacket designed by Robert Korn.National Book Award finalist: Look who's on the "Dick Gibson Radio Show": Arnold the Memory Expert ("I've memorized the entire West Coast shoreline - except for cloud cover and fog banks"). Bernie Perk, the burning pharmacist. Henry Harper, the nine-year old orphan millionaire, terrified of being adopted. The woman whose life revolves around pierced lobes. An evil hypnotist. Swindlers. Con-men. And Dick Gibson himself. Anticipating talk radio and its crazed hosts, Stanley Elkin creates a brilliant comic world held together by American manias and maniacs in all their forms, and a character who perfectly understands what Americans want and gives it to them.
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A Time Of Gifts, Between The Woods And The Water, The Broken Road -
Patrick Leigh Fermor
1977 - John Murray, London - First Editions
A bright, brilliant first edition trilogy of these erudite, high-spirited, and much-loved biographical classics of travel literature by Patrick Leigh Fermor, who was once described by a BBC journalist as a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond, and Graham Greene.
On the 8th of December 1933, at the tender age of eighteen, shortly after being expelled from The King’s School, Canterbury for reportedly holding hands with a greengrocer’s daughter, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off on an incredible journey: walking the length of Europe, from Hook Holland all the way to Istanbul....
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1977 - John Murray, London - First Editions
A bright, brilliant first edition trilogy of these erudite, high-spirited, and much-loved biographical classics of travel literature by Patrick Leigh Fermor, who was once described by a BBC journalist as a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond, and Graham Greene.On the 8th of December 1933, at the tender age of eighteen, shortly after being expelled from The King’s School, Canterbury for reportedly holding hands with a greengrocer’s daughter, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off on an incredible journey: walking the length of Europe, from Hook Holland all the way to Istanbul....
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