Franklin Library: DAPHNE DU MAURIER: KISS ME AGAIN, STRANGER: THE BIRDS: OLD MAN

Description: Franklin Library leather edition of Daphne Du Maurier's "Kiss Me Again, Stranger," a Limited edition, Illustrated by Allan Manham, one of the COLLECTED STORIES OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST WRITERS series, Frontispiece Portrait by Barbara Fox, published in 1981. Bound in pea green leather, the book has pea green French moire silk end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, satin book marker, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. Daphne Du Maurier, was a British novelist, born in 1907 in fashionable Regent's Park. As a writer, du Maurier grew heavily on her rich heritage. Her father, Sir Gerald, was a famous actor and her mother was an accomplished actress. She and her siblings, sisters Jeanne and Angela, were educated by nurses and governesses and a finishing school at Camposena, Meudon, near Paris. In 1932 Du Maurier married handsome A. Montague Browning, formerly treasurer to the duke of Edinburgh and the youngest major in the British army. As Lady Browning, du Maurier found herself writing books wherever her husband was stationed. In WW II, the Brownings lived in Kent with their two children, Tessa and Flavia. "Kiss Me Again, Stranger," first published in 1952, is set against a background of terror and explores the macabre to the supernatural to the fantastic. The mountain climber in "Monte Verita" loses his bride to a secret sect of women, led by all-powerful sacerdotesses who live, isolated in a mountaintop retreat. The widower in "The Apple Tree" is haunted by his dead wife. In "The Split Second," a suburban housewife returns from an afternoon shopping trip to her home of ten years, only to find it inhabited by strangers. In "No Motive," the young wife, soon to be a proud mother, inexplicably shoots herself. Only in "The Little Photographer," does the leading character in some way invite the horror that enters her life. In the well-known story, "The Birds," familiarized by Alfred Hitchcock's gripping film, an ex-army farm laborer and his family are terrorized by the uncharacteristic, aggressive behavior of the local birds, who begin attacking the neighorhood in a display of unheard-of savagery. 377 pages----a VERY RARE title. I offer combined shipping.

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