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Click to view full description | 1. | Du Maurier, Daphne Glass-Blowers, The
London Reprint Society, The 1964 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
No Inscriptions, slight lean, slight bump to corners. Dustwrapper shows a little wrinkling to edge, with tiny nicks and tears. 320pp. The crystal tumble, engraved for Louis XV, that Madame Duval gives to her nephew in the prologue to the story has been in the safe-keeping of the du Maurier family for several generations. It was this link with her Busson forebears that set Daphne du Maurier delving into the history of this illustrious family of master glass-blowers, before and during the French Revolution.
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| 2. | Du Maurier, Daphne Mary Jane
London 1955 Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Hard Cover Good No Jacket
Red boards, gilt titles on a black background, fading to spine, a little bumping, some marking, lean to spine. 352pp.
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| 3. | Du Maurier, Daphne Rendezvous and Other Stories, The
London Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1980 First Thus Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
First Impression. No Inscriptions, a little shelf-wear. Dustwrapper price-clipped, a little wrinkling to edge. 287pp. The short stories which Daphne du Maurier has written throughout her career have always had a haunting quality, and from two of them - The Birds and Don't Look Now - memorable films have been made. The fourteen tales included in this volume were written over a period of many years. They reflect many human emotions: romance, disenchantment, fantasy, nostalgia, ambition, irony, the longing for adventure.
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| 4. | Du Maurier, Daphne Scapegoat, The
Harmondsworth, Middlesex Penguin Books 1966 Mass Market Paperback Poor
No Inscriptions, torn at lower spine, bumped and creased. 320pp. The extraordinary story takes hold of the reader and never lets go; the setting in a French chateau in these times is wholly real; the prose is simple and assured; and finally the characters speak, act, and react precisely as they would have done in that family network of hatred, deceit, and jealousy.
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| 5. | Du Maurier, Daphne Scapegoat, The
London Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Hard Cover Good Fair
Former owners name inscribed, some shelf-wear. Dustwrapper worn to edge, with tears to corners, some nicks and chips. 311pp.
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| 6. | Du Maurier, Daphne The House on the Strand
London Pan Books 1979 Mass Market Paperback Fair
Spind split, lean, shelf wear, reading creases to spine. Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as 'guinea-pig' for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his bio-physical researches. The effect of the drug is to transport him from the house at Kilmarth to the Cornwall of the fourteenth century. there, in the manor Tywardreath, the domain of Sir Henry Champernoune, he witnesses intrigue, adultery and murder. As his time travelling increases, Dick resents more and more the days he must spend in the modern world, longing ever more fervently to get back into his world of centuries before.
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| 7. | Du Maurier, Daphne The Rendezvous and Other Stories
Bath Chivers Press 1981 Hard Cover Fair Good Ex-Library
Large Print, usual library marks and stamps, lean to spine, some shelf-wear. Dustwrapper in protective grubby wrapper. 211pp.
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