Daphne de Maurier. Second edition (stated on DJ flap). Dust Jacket: Good. A clipped jacket, but not price-clipped, in mylar protective wrapper. Has original price $2.50 on inside flap. Jacket designed by Robert Haberstock. Hardcover: Very Good+ New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1933. Has the same year of publication on title and copyright pages. No writing or markings in the book, 325 pp. This is a scarce edition.
A true first edition, first printing was published by Heinemann in 1933. Publication date July 13, 1933. This was the authors third novel.
Some actual reviews of this wonderful book. "The word "sweeping" is not inappropriate here, since the novel covers Julius' entire life from birth to death, somewhere around age 80."
"The Progress of Julius" is unsettling, engrossing and epic. Classic Du Maurier. Julius rises from a shivering war refugee, selling rats on the grey streets of late nineteenth century Paris, to one of the world's wealthiest men."
"Absolutely loved this book - it traces the life of Julius Levy, born into poverty on the outskirts of Paris in 1860 to a Catholic mother and a Jewish father, from childhood to old age. Julius is part of a family of market stallholders - he, his mother, father and maternal grandfather - barely making a living, their lives made even worse by the invasion of the Prussian Army during the Franco-Prussian War. After tragedies strike the family, Julius and his father make their way to Algiers (where his father was born) and here Julius learns to live by his wits - his maxim 'something for nothing' is repeated throughout the book."
