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A first edition copy, gray cloth with blue lettering. "Published May 1936" on copyright page. Spine ends softened, board edges lightly rubbed. Previous owner name to ffep else unmarked. First few pages softly creased. Bookseller sticker to rear endpage. The unclipped jacket in mylar has chipping to spine ends and back panel, hole mid spine, rubs/small hole to fold. First issue jacket with $3.00 price to flap and Gone With the Wind listed in the second column of the booklist on back panel. A very nice copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. It depicts the struggles of young Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to come out of the poverty she finds herself in after Sherman's March to the Sea.