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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing, with "Published May, 1936" on the copyright page. Signed by Margaret Mitchell on the front free endpaper in black ink. [vi], 1037 pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth with blue lettering. Near Fine with light edge rubbing, pages toned with age;from the collection of noteworthy American book collector Robert R. Dearden with his bookplate on paste down. In first issue dust jacket with Gone with the Wind placed in the second column of books listed on the rear panel; $3.00 price intact on bottom corner of front flap. Jacket is Near Fine, unsophisticated (a good thing, meaning it has had no repairs) and unfaded, light diagonal crease to front panel, a little rubbed and toned, small L shaped closed tear to back panel. Housed in a quarter calf custom folding case. A lovely signed true first of the historical novel that inspired the classic 1939 film starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable. The…

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.