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First Edition, First Printing with the words "published May 1936" printed on the copyright page. Later editions were published June, July August, etc. A spectacular copy. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is rich in color with NO chips or tears and has the $3.00 printed price is present on the front flap. This First Issue dustjacket has the First Issue point with "Gone with the Wind" title printed in the second column on the back panel of the dustjacket. The book is in amazing shape and appears UNREAD. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy. We buy Margaret Mitchell First Editions.

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.