DU MAURIER, Daphne "The Scapegoat" [Doubleday & Co, 1957] 1st Edition

DU MAURIER, Daphne. The Scapegoat.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1957. First American edition, stated first edition. 8.5" x 5.75". Publisher’s quarter cream cloth over black boards, spine lettered in black and white. In the original unclipped dust jacket. Jacket shows moderate edgewear with several short tears, small chips at spine ends and lower panel, and light toning; binding clean and tight with mild shelf wear; text block lightly toned as usual. Very Good in a Good+ jacket.

Du Maurier’s psychological novel of mistaken identity and moral displacement, centered on an Englishman who exchanges lives with his exact double in France and finds himself trapped inside another man’s family, debts, and secrets. Published between My Cousin Rachel and The Breaking Point, it remains one of her strongest explorations of divided identity and unease beneath outward respectability.