The Flight of the Falcon - Daphne du Maurier - First Edition - 1965 - Doubleday - DJ - Inscribed. This item is unavailable.The Flight of the Falcon - Daphne du Maurier - First Edition - 1965 - Doubleday - DJ - Inscribed

The First Edition of Daphne du Maurier's "The Flight of the Falcon" states "First Edition in the United States of America" on the copyright page. Published by Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1965. By 1965, Daphne du Maurier needed no introduction. Rebecca had made her one of the most famous novelists in the English-speaking world, and The Flight of the Falcon was marketed in exactly those terms, "In the great tradition of Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, and The Scapegoat, a new masterpiece of haunting atmosphere and hypnotic suspense." This is a du Maurier novel of obsession and identity: a young Italian courier becomes entangled in a murder in Rome, a woman who inexplicably stirs his memory. His search for her identity leads him back to Ruffano, the hill town he fled as a boy during the retreating German army's final days in Italy. It's a town haunted by a 500-year-old legend of cruelty, and by something far more immediate and personal. The atmosphere is pure du Maurier: beautiful, unsettling, and suffused with the Gothic dread she perfected across four decades. This copy carries a lovely Christmas inscription: "Dear Grandy, We hope you enjoy this book, and have a very Merry Christmas. Love Always, Robyn & Mike," dated December 25, 1965, gifted the same year of publication. First Edition in the United States of America. Copyright © 1965 by Daphne du Maurier. Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York. LC Card 65-10613. 301 pages. Jacket by Casey Lubin. Serialized in Good Housekeeping Magazine. Book is in Very Good condition, with deep rust/orange cloth boards over green cloth, binding tight and square throughout, pages toned throughout with age (as expected for a 60-year-old copy), otherwise clean and unmarked except for the Christmas inscription on the FFEP. Dust jacket is Good with warm ochre/gold tones with Italian cityscape illustration, original price ($4.95) unclipped on front flap, significant chipping and splitting at spine crown, toning and soiling to rear panel, otherwise design intact and colors present. Protected in mylar. Condition: Very Good / Good DJ A genuine first edition of a du Maurier Gothic thriller, given as a Christmas gift the year it was published. …