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Handsomely bound in grey cloth and stamped in dark blue ink, this is a substantial volume. With the Steiger's Lending Library rental sticker on the rear endpaper and some black tape residue strips at the top and bottom of the boards as well as vertical lines on the front and rear endpapers. The textural pages are clean throughout and very crisp. Hinges are tight as well. In the original Second Edition dust jacket with the title GONE WITH THE WIND at the top of the left hand column of New Macmilllan Books on the rear panel of the dust jacket; and with the $3.00 at the bottom of the inside front flap. The jacket is bordered by black tape residue from its term of imprisonment in the lending library brodart. With matching vertical lines along the front and rear paste-downs along the jacket flap edges.With all its faults it is still an uncommon second edition in the original second issue jacket. In May 1926, after Mitchell had left her job at theAtlanta Journaland was recovering at home from her ankle injury, she wrote a society column for theSunday Magazine, "Elizabeth Bennet's Gossip", which she continued to write until August.[69]:xvMeanwhile, her husband was growing weary of lugging armloads of books home from the library to keep his wife's mind occupied while she hobbled around the house; he emphatically suggested that she write her own book instead: For God's sake, Peggy, can't you write a book instead of reading thousands of them?[92] To aid her in her literary endeavors, John Marsh brought home a Remington Portable No. 3typewriter(c. 1928).[79][93]For the next three years Mitchell worked exclusively on writing a Civil War-era novel whose heroine was named Pansy O'Hara (prior toGone with the Wind's publication Pansy was changed to Scarlett). She used parts of the manuscript to prop up a wobbly couch. (Wikipedia) Second Edition with matching dates of 1936 on the title and copyright pages; and with "Published June, 1936" on the copyright page.

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.