Books

large octavo, 1037 pages; original gray cloth, lettered in blue; FIRST ISSUE, with "May, 1936" on copyright page. Dust jacket with $3.00 price on front flap and with residue at head and foot, from older jacket protector, loss at spine ends and some tide marks. Book with tape residue at head and foot of front and rear panels and on pastedowns.

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.