"Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier, published by Triangle Books, New York, stated 8th Printing September, 1943. [This particular edition was first published in October 1942/ the novel was first published in 1938]

Original dust jacket [some wear], hard boards with black lettering on spine [shelf wear], 5" x 7.1/2"; private exlibris inside cover, 457 pages, brownish paper, very good condition.

"Having read this book many times, I'm hoping a new generation of readers will discover an intriguing mystery without a single vampire, serial killer or one set in some apocalyptic future. Rebecca is dark and strange and almost impossible to put down, especially with the central character dead and the storyteller being a shadow."

"The book begins with a dream about a house named Manderley perched on a knoll above the sea. The dream is told by the book's narrator and we learn that she once lived at Manderley but can never return."

The story really begins in a hotel in Monte Carlo in the 1930's where a young girl is the paid companion to a crass, social climbing older woman, Mrs. Van Topper. The older woman will sink to almost any depth to appear well connected and prominent and plants herself in the hotel lobby daily in an attempt to ingratiate herself with someone she deems important. She spots a man she recognizes as a wealthy, prominent Englishman, Maxim de Winter and forces him to have tea with her...

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