Jamaica Inn DU MAURIER, [Dame] Daphne (1907-1989) Literature,Strange Tales & Mysteries

[Strange Tale] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 351 [3]. Recently re-bound in navy half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to twin red labels, and marbled paper over boards. Edges trimmed. Toning and spotting to edges, with some light spotting throughout. Presented in an attractive new leather binding. Du Maurier's first commercially successful novel is 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.