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First edition, first printing, in the first issue dust jacket, uncommonly found in such attractive condition. Mitchell's sole published novel met with immediate acclaim and record-breaking sales, winning her the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The film adaptation, starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, followed in 1939. Mitchell's sole published novel met with immediate acclaim and record-breaking sales, winning her the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The film adaptation, starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, followed in 1939. Due to their enduring but not uncontroversial popularity, both the novel and the film have become touchstones for subsequent representations and discussions of the Reconstruction era in American popular culture. The first printing is dated May, rather than June, on the copyright page. Dust jackets in the first issue advertise this title on the rear panel in the second row of the second column. Octavo. Original grey cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated with wind devices in dark blue, top edge pale brown, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Housed in custom brown quarter morocco solander box. 20th-century seller's typescript cataloguing loosely inserted. Minor bumps to spine ends, a couple of spots of tape residue to outer leaves; bright jacket unclipped, nicks to edges, tape residue and paper skinning to front flap slightly affecting a couple of letters: a near-fine copy in like jacket.

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.