[Gone with the Wind - 75th Anniversary] Mitchell, Margaret. (1900 - 1949)
Gone with the Wind - SIGNED First Edition
New York: Macmillan. 1936. First edition. First edition, first printing (with "May 1936" on copyright page; jacket with "Macmillan Spring Novels" on the back panel and Gone with the Wind listed second in the right column). Hardcover with dustjacket, 6 x 8.75, 1037 pages. Signed in ink on the front free end page "Margaret Mitchell." The dust jacket (which is in the preferred state) is in fragmentary form, retaining only the front and rear panels and flaps (these in worn condition, with crude tape repairs), jacket spine is lacking, though a small section is laid into the front of the book. The paper of the rear hinge of the text block is cracked, but otherwise the volume itself, including the signed front endpage, is in very good condition throughout.Mitchell wrote only one novel - the classic and immensely popular Gone With the Wind - a best-seller which won her the 1937 Pulitzer Prize and became one of the most popular films of all time. In its original 1936 review, the New York Times gushed "This is beyond doubt one of the most remarkable first novels produced by an American writer. It is also one of the best. It has been a long while since the American public has been offered such a bounteous feast of excellent story-telling." Atlanta's " greatest and most beloved citizen" was killed prematurely by a speeding car which struck her as she was crossing a street with her husband. (6247)
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