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8vo. 1st edition, in 1st issue dust jacket. Mild bumping to spine ends. Dampstain affecting inner half of lower quarter inch of leaves throughout. Minor offsetting to fore-margin of endpapers. Dust jacket front panel bright and clean. Mild soiling to d.j. rear panel and joints. Very slight foxing to d.j. spine, with faint dampstaining at tail of spine and rear joint. Tiny chips to d.j. at spine ends, and quarter-inch closed tear and crease to top of front panel. Housed in custom slipcase backed in straight grain morocco over green cloth, with additional matching green cloth dust jacket. VG/VG.

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.