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THE APPLE TREE: A SHORT NOVEL AND SOME STORIES.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1952. Octavo, boards. First edition. Six stories including the classic "The Birds." "... one of the bleakest end-of-the-world scenarios in the genre." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-101. The source for Alfred Hitchcock's well-known film of the same name. The title story is one of her best supernatural tales. [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 569. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 139. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, p. 467].
DAPHNE DU MAURIER'S CLASSICS OF THE MACABRE ...
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1987. Octavo, boards. First edition, U.S. issue. The Gollancz issue preceded the Doubleday issue. Collects six stories, "Don't Look Now," "The Apple Tree," "The Blue Lenses," The Birds," "The Alibi" and "Not After Midnight," with numerous full color illustrations by Michael Foreman. [Reference: Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 139].
EARLY STORIES.
London: Todd, [1955]. Octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Collects eighteen of the author's stories published 1927-30, before the publication of her first novel.