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92. Du Maurier (Daphne) Jamaica Inn, first edition, the author's own copy with her signed bookplate to pastedown, original cloth, slight fading around joints, otherwise excellent, dust-jacket, spine and upper panel a little darkened, minor repairs to spine ends and corners, otherwise excellent, preserved in custom drop-back box, 8vo, 1936.

est. £1500 – £2000

Du Maurier’s classic work of smuggling and intrigue, influenced by her visit to the eponymous hostelry in Cornwall. Filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1939

Sold for £3500
Sale 35988, 25th October 2012


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