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. ‘Ultimately, Jamaica Inn is a novel about nothing less than pure evil. Not the lumpen, drunken, thuggish evil that men like Joss can effect, but something much worse – a force that Du Maurier only begins to put into words, with an eerie and shocking kind of power’ - The Guardian review of books.
Octavo (binding size 18.5x13cm), pp. [2] 351 [3]. Bound in recent three-quarter green morocco over matching marbled boards, spine with gilt centre pieces and twin black morocco labels lettered and ruled in gilt, all edges trimmed. Condition: Fine in fine recent binding. Ref: 112401 Price: HK$ 10,000
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. ‘Ultimately, Jamaica Inn is a novel about nothing less than pure evil. Not the lumpen, drunken, thuggish evil that men like Joss can effect, but something much worse – a force that Du Maurier only begins to put into words, with an eerie and shocking kind of power’ - The Guardian review of books.
Octavo (binding size 18.5x13cm), pp. [2] 351 [3]. Bound in recent three-quarter green morocco over matching marbled boards, spine with gilt centre pieces and twin black morocco labels lettered and ruled in gilt, all edges trimmed. Condition: Fine in fine recent binding. Ref: 112401 Price: HK$ 10,000