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This is a true first edition of Mitchell's classic. States, "Published May 1936." No dust jacket. Corners bumped. Biit of scuffing and soiling to the front board. Text block is complete without marks, inscriptions, bookplates etc. This is an extremely difficult book to find in collectable condition.

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.