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Auction #133 begins on 20 Aug 2026

Du Maurier (Daphne)

MY COUSIN RACHEL (First Edition, 1951)

Published: Victor Gollancz, London, 1951

Reserve: $40

Approximately:

Estimate: $50-60

Bidding opens: 20 Aug 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 27 Aug 16:30 GMT

Ships from: South Africa

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352pp. Hardcover binding, blue lettering to spine. With dust jacket. Condition: Very good. Light rubbing and some edgewear with small open and closed tears to DJ, DJ has been covered with protective Brodart plastic sleeve after photos were taken. Previous owner’s signature to front pastedown. Text clean. Well bound.

 

My Cousin Rachel is a Gothic novel written by English author Daphne du Maurier, published in 1951. Bearing thematic similarities to her earlier and more famous novel Rebecca, it is a mystery-romance, set primarily on a large estate in Cornwall. The novel involves a young man, Philip Ashley, who becomes infatuated with his cousin Ambrose's widow Rachel. When Rachel comes to Cornwall to stay with him, he hands over the entire estate to her, but later becomes suspicious that she is trying to poison him. The story has its origins in a portrait of Rachel Carew at Antony House in Cornwall, which du Maurier saw and took as inspiration.

(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Cousin_Rachel)

 

London: Victor Gollancz, 1951

 

Size: 8vo (19 x 13,2cm)

 

  • Overall Condition: Very Good
  • Size: 8vo


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