Books

New York: Macmillan Company, 1939. First Thus. Hardcover. Very good +/good. 2 volumes, octavo. A very good + set in good glassine jackets with a worn publisher's slipcase. Slipcase is split on lower edge. Glassine jacket on vol 2 is missing to top portion of front panel. Vol 1 has a magazine article featuring Mitchell's tragic death pasted to first blank leaf. This is the first two volume edition, issued Dec 1, 1939 and limited to 1,000 copies. This copy is #322.

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.

Look for the May 1936 printing date on the copyright page for first editions.