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Inscribed For Harold Latham from Margaret Mitchell- Atlanta, Ga, June 22, 1938 to the front endpaper. Harold Latham is best known for discovering Mitchell on a 1935 trip to Atlanta for Macmillan Inc. and later helping to edit Gone with the Wind. Twelfth impression of the English edition. Turquoise cloth with an unclipped dustjacket. Tape repairs to jacket, as well as a loss to head (see image). Wrapped in protective mylar. A nice clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements. 6.25 x 9 in.

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.