Description: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Signed first edition, first printing in first issue dust jacket New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. 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 novel itself was no slouch; it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, sold more than eight million copies, and has been translated into at least 18 languages. Signed copies are uncommon as Mitchell, swamped with requests, refused to sign the novel six months after its publication.
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Location: Portland, Oregon
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Author: Mitchell, Margaret
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Year Printed: 1936
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Signed
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Original/Facsimile: Original
