“MY DEAR, I DON’T GIVE A DAMN”: FIRST EDITION OF MITCHELL’S CLASSIC GONE WITH THE WIND, BEAUTIFULLY BOUND
MITCHELL, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. New York: Macmillan, 1936. Thick octavo, modern full crushed gray morocco gilt, marbled endpapers.
First edition of this American classic, beautifully bound.
“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” (New York Times Book Review, 1936). Said to be the fastest selling novel in the history of American publishing (50,000 copies in a single day), Gone with the Wind won Mitchell the Pulitzer Prize. First printing, with “Published May, 1936” on the copyright page and no mention of other printings. Books of the Century, 111. Eicher 730. In Tall Cotton 125.
Interior generally quite nice, binding lovely and fine. A beautiful copy.