Gone with the Wind - May, 1936 - Margaret Mitchell

Description: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. True first printing ("May, 1936") Publisher & Year: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. -Edition: First edition, first printing (per May, 1936 and no other dates on the copyright page). The book was originally intended to be published in May, but was delayed until June to be released simultaneously with the book club edition. The publisher had already begun producing copies bearing the May date before the request to delay publication, and rather than destroy these copies, they simply resumed printing copies with the corrected date of June. Bibliographic reference: Bridges (1995, p. 7). -Condition and Description: Grey cloth with titles and ornaments in dark blue. Boards show rubbing and staining. Structurally sound, but there is some play at the hinges. Importantly, the hinges are NOT cracking at the endpapers. Spine rather worn. Lightly tanned pages with the kinds of faints shown in the pictures (e.g., corner creases, thumbing, a bit of chipping on the foredge of page 1003). Apart from a prior owner's name in pencil, there is no writing and underlining.-"Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears." - Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind-Inventory ID: 081 - 587 - 141

Price: 950 USD

Location: North Haven, Connecticut

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