Hardcover with dustjacket, 6 x 8.75, 1037 pages. Signed in ink on the front free end page "Margaret Mitchell." First edition, first printing (with "May 1936" on copyright page), in a later thirty-sixth printing dust jacket.  Gray cloth with blue lettering on front and spine; spine with torn 1/2 inch from head including "GON" lacking; spine faded, abraded at bottom about 1/8 inch. Mild bumping to corners, else good overall in a very good dj. 

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.