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Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell, a first edition, first printing in fine binding.
Octavo, [vi], 1037pp, [5pp, blank]. Deluxe red morocco, title in gilt on spine, raised bands. A first edition, first printing, with “Set up and electrotyped. Published May, 1936” on copyright page, with no mention of other printings. Professional binder added marbled endpapers, top edge gilt and new flyleaves. Clean pages in tight binding, small stain affecting 8 pages in Chapter I, not impacting text. An exceptional example in an attractive binding.
This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was adapted into a feature film in 1939. According to a Harris Poll in 2014, this book remains the “second favorite book of American readers, just behind the Bible.”