Books

MITCHELL, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. Orig. cloth in dust jacket. New York: Macmillan, 1936. 8vo. First edition, first issue of the author's first and only book, with "Published May, 1936" on copyright page and no mention of later printings. A fine copy in the first issue jacket, with Gone with the Wind listed in second column on rear panel. In Tall Cotton 125. In a morocco-backed cloth folding box. Fine in very good dust jacket with several tiny closed tears.

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.