Jamaica Inn
by Du Maurier, Daphne
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On Oct 8, 2013, feeney said
I saw JAMAICA INN the 1939 movie before I read the 1936 novel. The movie, with young Maureen O'Hara and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, is very, very loosely, too loosely, based on the novel and in my opinion badly told to boot. Novel's author Daphne du Maurier wrote to her publisher: "Don't go and see it, it is a wretched affair." ***Hitchcock's JAMAICA INN frankly depressed me. It was that bad and demotivated me for reading the novel. But, in the end, dutifully, I opened du Maurier's tale of Cornish smugglers and killers in the early 19th Century and was drawn in at once to an astonishingly good yarn. 23-year old recently orphaned Mary Yellan travels by coach to the barren, forbidding interior uplands of Cornwall. There, as she promised her dying mother, she moves in with her mother's older sister Patience and the latter's abusive husband of ten years Joss Merlyn. By trickery Joss had bought from an upright local squire real and still existing Jamaica Inn, perched on a desolate stretch of highway between two towns on the dangerous moors. Joss is nearly seven feet tall, a hopeless alcoholic and apparent leader and brains behind a 100 man strong gang of smugglers. The smugglers are also "breakers," men who lure ships to destruction on rocks of the wild Cornish coast, murder survivors and steal their valuables. *** Mary Yellan is that indispensable figure of every true "thriller," the isolated hero, utterly friendless, up against powerful persons but supported by no allies, at least initially. Like a good modern historian, Daphne du Maurier is careful to make Mary Yellan know no more about what is going on about her than she can learn for herself. The third person narrator's point of view is not godlike. It is realistic. Mary falls in love with her uncle's much younger and far less reprehensible -- but no saint -- brother Jem. Jem despises churches, vicars, religion nore is very fond of women and makes his money stealing, disguising and selling horses from his neighbors across the moors. ***A mouthpiece for du Maurier's own experiences with men, animal-wise country woman Mary Yellan is at a loss to understand why otherwise sensible women fall for objectionable men. Some of her musings: --(1) "Animals did not reason... There was precious little romance in nature, and she would not look for it in her own life"; --(2) Telling Jem why she thinks she loves him and will relunctantly go with him on Jem's terms: "Because I want to; because I must; because now and forever more this is where I belong to be." *** Keep your eye on seldom seen Anglican priest Francis Davey, albino vicar of Altarnun on the moors. He becomes Mary's only friend, hears with apparent empathy her tales of evil that she has seen through living at Jamaica Inn. He is the first person with any real power to show Mary kindness. Yet more than once the novel shows a suspicious Mary Yellan worrying about who and what sort of "freak" albino Davey really might be. Incredibly, his part was written out for the 1939 movie version. -OOO-
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Jamaica Inn (With Rex Whistler Dust Jacket)
by Du Maurier, Daphne
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- 1936
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By Daphne Du Maurier. Jamaica Inn, Doubleday & Company MXXXVI, BCE. 243 pages. INCLUDES RARE ORIGINAL REX WHISTLER 1ST EDITION UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET.
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Dated 1936, but list of titles in front suggests a later printing. Foxing on endpages and pastedowns, short ink notation on front endpage, binding is slightly cocked but tight. DJ has some edge wear, cover art is clean and bright.
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Jamaica Inn
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Du Maurier, Daphne: Jamaica Inn Copyright 1936, states 1937 on the title page. Doubleday Doran & Co. QUITE RARE. Used. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ NO DJ INCLUDED. 332 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼. Plot summary: "Shadows moved across the moor. Horses' hoofs rang sharply on the stone pathway. They had come again - the mysterious visitors who arrived at… Read more about this item Item Price
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Jamaica Inn
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Du Maurier, Daphne: Jamaica Inn 1936 First Edition. Doubleday Doran & Co. RARE. Title page states 1936. Used. Good-/ New Fax Whistler Dust Jacket. Condition: Front board was cracked in half in shipment and has now been taped from inside. Fabric is intact. Other than this damage the book is in good overall condition. Priced accordingly. 332 pages. 5 ¾… Read more about this item Item Price
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Jamaica Inn
by Daphne Du Maurier
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UK: Gollancz, 1936. 1st Edition 4th Printing. Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Cheap Edition and 4th Imp Overall 1936. Published in the same year as the 1st edition. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. Small bookplate to endpaper. The wrapper is very good+ and bright. Edges… Read more about this item Item Price
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Jamaica Inn
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Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1936. First Edition. Very Good. Green Cloth Boards with stamped design; No DJ;Book block is deckle edged; Spine is sunned and titles faded; 1st American; some minor rubbing and discolored spots on boards but interior is clean and unmarked; Binding is solid. Item Price
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JAMAICA INN
by Daphne Du Maurier
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- 1936
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New York: International Collectors Library. 1936. International Collectors Library; Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good+ in boards. . Item Price
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Jamaica Inn (VMC)
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- 05/03/2012
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Virago, 05/03/2012. Hardcover. Used; Good. **WE SHIP WITHIN 24 HRS FROM LONDON, UK, 98% OF OUR ORDERS ARE RECEIVED WITHIN 7-10 DAYS. We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books. Item Price
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Jamaica Inn
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Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1937. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good-/Good -. du Maurier's first success, and a Gothic classic. Book is very good, front endpaper is neatly cut away at top (probably to remove previous owner's name), but covers and text block very good. In scarce original dust jacket illustrated by Rex Whistler. Jacket is not quite good,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Jamaica Inn
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New York: Doubleday Doran, 1936. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1936. First American edition of Daphne du Maurier's marvelous novel, Jamaica Inn. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. Hardcover. Binding is solid. Uncut fore edge and an illustrated title page. 332 pp. VG condition with a book plate inside… Read more about this item Item Price
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Jamaica Inn.
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London: Victor Gollancz,, 1936. Finely bound copy of her first book First edition, first impression. The novel harnesses Du Maurier's "strengths in narrative drive and the evocation of atmosphere" (ODNB). The work was an instant best-seller and within three months had sold in England more than her three first novels combined, making it her first commercial success. The work's… Read more about this item Item Price
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Jamaica Inn - a superb fine copy
by Du Maurier, Daphne
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Gollancz, 1936. Hardcover. Fine. A first edition, first printing published by Gollancz in 1936. A fine book without inscriptions. Lacking the dust wrapper. No rubbing or fraying. A little scattered spotting to the page edge. Scarce. Item Price
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Jamaica Inn (Virago Modern Classics)
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JAMAICA INN
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Jamaica Inn (Virago Modern Classics)
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Jamaica Inn
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London: Victor Gollancz, 1936.. First edition, 8vo, 351, (1) pp. Contemporary inscription to fly leaf. Original light blue cloth, spine and edges with light browning. Item Price
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Jamaica Inn
by Daphne du Maurier
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- 1974
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London: Penguin Books, 1974 Book protected by a plastic sleeve ---------- Orders over $100.00 are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Size: Approx 4½ " Wide - 7" Tall Item Price
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Jamaica Inn
by Daphne Du Maurier
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- 03/06/2003
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Virago Press Ltd, 03/06/2003. Paperback. Used; Good. **WE SHIP WITHIN 24 HRS FROM LONDON, UK, 98% OF OUR ORDERS ARE RECEIVED WITHIN 7-10 DAYS. We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books. Item Price
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Jamaica Inn
by Du Maurier, Daphne
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- 1939
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London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1939. 8vo. 351 pp. Hardback in jacket. Slight fading to spine and minor wear to edges, minimal rubbing to extremities. Spotting to fore-edge, otherwise internally clean. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1939. Item Price
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