Fine Books & Manuscripts

MITCHELL, Margaret (1900–1949). Gone with the Wind. New York: Macmillan Company, 1936. 8vo. Publisher’s grey cloth stamped in blue; original unclipped dust jacket (spine panel heavily chipped with losses at ends and some chipping along edges, separation along rear panel joint with old tape repair verso). Second printing with “Published June 1936” printed on copyright. In a second issue dust jacket printed with the heading “New Macmillan Books” on rear panel with this title listed in first column. A 20th–century American classic portraying the Civil War and Reconstruction from a Southern perspective and the winner of the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Best Novel.