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First edition, first printing, with "Published May, 1936" on the copyright page. Bound in publisher's grey cloth stamped in blue; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light soiling and wear, contents tanned. A very sharp copy.

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.