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Bound in original grey cloth lettered in blue. In fair condition. Some minor rubbing on edges, a few small nicks & very small tear head of spine. Cloth a little darkened, with a few faint marks. Pencil inscription on front endpaper. Endpapers and edges a bit foxed. A few lower corners turned over crease. Page 619 lightly creased, pages 606 to 618 has faint water mark on fore edge. A few other minor marks, else generally clean & tight. Size 8.75 x 6 inches 1037 pp. The novel won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize and was adapted into an Academy Award-winning 1939 film of the same name. It is the only novel by Mitchell published during her lifetime. It took her seven years to write the book and a further eight months to check the thousands of historical and social references. The novel is one of the most popular books of all time, selling more than 30 million copies.

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.