Trilby.

8vo. Bound in original nice blue cloth with gilt to spine and gilt vignette to front. Top edge gilt. With its uncommon ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S PRINTED DUSTJACKET In very good condition. Covers bright. Spine slightly bumped. (DW slightly rubbed, some loss ends and corners). Inscription on half title page. Mild foxing to edges affecting most pages. Two small old tape marks rear endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. Size 8.25 x 6 inches 447pp.Cat.5pp. 141 illustrations by the author including frontispiece. Dark Green endpapers. 1st one volume edition. The story of Trilby and the strange hold Svengali has over her. This was made into a silent film in 1922 and later a "talkie" called Svengali starring John Barrymore in 1931. Du Maurier (1834-1896) was one of the most successful illustrators of the last half of the Victorian era, the much acclaimed illustrator for "Punch" and other popular publications. Toward the end of his life, at the urging of Henry James, he produced three novels, the most extraordinarily successful of which was TRILBY which begat hysterical Trilby-mania (the Trilby hat changed men's fashion, it became the name of a town in Florida) and introduced the character of SVENGALI, the evil mesmerist who hypnotizes the lovely Trilby into becoming a world renown diva through his dark hypnotic talents (thus serving as the inspiration for Gaston Leroux's PHANTOM OF THE OPERA). This is the novel for which du Maurier will forever be remembered, a book which made hypnotism just as much a part of our modern culture as Svengali has become part of the English Language as the descriptor of anyone who manipulates another person in a sinister fashion through the force of mesmerizing persuasion. The survival of this dustjacket seems to us to be of equal rarity to the survival of Thomas Hardy's JUDE THE OBSCURE which was also published in a six-shilling single volume by Osgood, McIlvaine in November of this very same year.

Product Info

Publisher: London Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. 1895 1st thus. FIRST ENGLISH ONE-VOLUME EDITION AND FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION preceded only by the 1894 non-illustrated three-volume first

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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