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First edition, first printing. 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. Octavo (210 x 139 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in yellow morocco with wraparound onlaid silhouette of Tara in black morocco set against a hand-painted sunset, spine lettered in gilt, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, black endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a black cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. Occasional minor blemish; an excellent copy in a fine binding.

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.