Jamaica Inn, Signed (5 results)

Condition: Very Good. 2015. No Edition Remarks. 237 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial paper cover. Author's signature to half title page. Very good condition item, with bright and clear pages. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and sunning.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. David Peake (illustrator). Jamaica Inn is a traditional inn on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, which was built as a coaching inn 1750. The inn was the setting for Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel Jamaica Inn, about the nocturnal activities of a smuggling ring. Davidstow; Bolventor; Altarnun; Trewint; Kerrow Downs; Roughtor; River Fowey (Foy); Tolborough Tor; Dozmary Pond. Alistair Maclean author of 'H.M.S. Ulysses' being the first bestseller of many, owned the inn from 1964 until 1973. Pages iii; 84; illustrated with photographs and a map. SIGNED on title page by Rose Mullins. Signed by the Author.

Condition: Very good copy. An attractive print showing draymen loading barrels outside Jamaica Inn. The print is signed by Philip Youngman Carter. I assume this is a proof for Daphne du Maurier's novel Jamaica Inn. The artist was the husband of crime novelist Margery Allingham and was a crime writer in his own right producing over 30 short stories. In addition he finished Allingham's last work after death and wrote two further Albert Campion sequels. As an artist Youngman Carter designed over 200 crime fiction dust jackets for many writers including Alllingham as well as other famous names such as Gladys Mitchell. He also illustrated work for Rebecca West, John Steinbeck, J. B. Priestley, Georgette Heyer and Graham Greene. Youngman Carter was Allingham's book artist from the first, as he illustrated the jacket for Blackkerchief Dick, published in 1923. The print is mounted and framed. the frame is 12.5" x 14" and the inner section showing the print is 7.5"x 9" . Print is in excellent condition. Mounted in cream and in what is probably its original mid-twentieth century black and gilt, narrow frame; the frame is solid but has some small surface chips to the raised details and some slight scratches. Very good copy in clean and sound frame.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. "Jamaica Inn" by Daphne Du Maurier. Victor Gollancz, London. 1936 first UK edition first printing, signed by the author on endpaper, ink gift inscription in another hand "M. M. Chatterton Easter 1936 from L. W. S." to front free endpaper, light edge-spotting occasionally straying to margins, light browning to half-title and rear endpaper, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, light sunning to spine, 8vo, 1936. Very rare to find signed copies of one of Du Maurier's greatest works. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. "Jamaica Inn" by Daphne Du Maurier. Victor Gollancz, London. 1936 first UK edition first printing. Signed presentation inscription from the author to her governess "Tod - with love from Daphne. Xmas 1935" to endpaper. Book in good condition with original first issue dust jacket in good condition, potting to first and last few pp., some light tape staining to endpapers and pastedowns, original cloth, spine slightly sunning with short split to head and light staining to foot, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, spine with 1" portion of restoration to head affecting title, foot of spine and corners a little chipped, some light chipping and fraying to head of panels, small chips to fore-edges, light rubbing and surface soiling. Maud Waddell worked as one of several governesses for the Du Maurier children and she is now regarded as having had an important formative influence on Daphne in particular. Waddell (or, "Tod" as she was nicknamed by the children after the Beatrix Potter character) was a strong, independently-minded woman who instilled in Du Maurier a passion for reading and encouraged her early writing. Writing in her memoirs, Du Maurier recounts some early influences from Waddell's recommendations: "Wilde filled my reading hours, but a more lasting impression was made by the stories of Katherine Mansfield, introduced to me by Tod who had a brother in New Zealand, and I felt instinctively that if I could only one day in the distant future write some sketch that might compare, however humbly, to hers, I need not despair." . Waddell later became a close friend and confidant, and would even serve as governess for Du Maurier's own children many years later. - Du Maurier, Myself When Young: The Shaping of a Writer, 1977. This is an extremely rare inscribed presentation copy given by Du Maurier to her favorite governess before publication. This is one of the most sought after inscribed copies of Du Maurier's first successful novel. Inscribed by Author.