Books

Movie Tie-in edition. Hardcover. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket. With the wraparound band featuring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. The jacket has light edgewear and rubbing to the back panel. Jacket has a limitation number to the inside front flap. The book was originally published in 1938 with this copy published in 1940, the same year as the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock film.

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. The novel 'Rebecca', by Daphne du Maurier, begins with this evocative sentence, setting the tone for a story of romance, jealousy, and intrigue. The unnamed protagonist, a young and naive woman, marries the charismatic Maxim de Winter after a whirlwind romance in Monte Carlo. Upon moving to his ancestral estate, Manderley, she confronts the pervasive influence of his late wife, Rebecca, whose legacy lives on long after her death.