1938 REBECCA Daphne Du Maurier BCE Hardcover Dust Jacket

REBECCA by Daphne Du Maurier Book Club Edition  hardcover copy with Dust Jacket published by Doubleday in 1938. Dust jacket has an indent on front cover with creases extending outward. It has been placed in a protective clear archival sleeve. There aren't any obvious signs of inscriptions, marginalization or dog eared pages.

Rebecca is a gothic tale full of lush language and suspenseful mystery; it is the story of a young woman haunted by the ever present reminders of her husband's first wife. This novel is found on the ALA's top 100 Banned or Challenged classics list. Some of the reasons might include secret source codes being hidden in the text during World War II, but they were apparently never used due to the belief that security was compromised.  It also had controversial subtext. After du Maurier died in 1989, her biographers were able to be truthful about her life. It emerged that she was bisexual and had fallen in love with her publisher's wife, Ellen Doubleday. If you are a collector of banned books, this is a novel you want on your library shelf.