L i t e r a t u r e 32 First Edition Of Gone With The Wind, Signed By Margaret Mitchell 33. MITCHELL, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. New York, 1936. Thick octavo, original gray cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $27,000. First edition, in first-issue dust jacket, of this American classic, signed by the author. “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). 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. First-issue dust jacket, with Gone with the Wind listed in second column of booklist on back panel. Books of the Century, 111. In Tall Cotton 125. Small bookseller ticket. Book fine, unfaded corner-clipped dust jacket near-fine with only slightest soiling and minor rubbing to extremities. A lovely signed copy, unusual in this condition. “It’s A Perfectly Sanitary War”: First Edition Of Jones’ In Parenthesis, A Classic Of World War I Literature 34. JONES, David. In Parenthesis. Seinnyessit e Gledyf ym Penn Mameu. London, 1937. Octavo, original beige cloth, dust jacket. $5800. First edition, first printing, of this epic poem about the First World War, lauded by Yeats, Eliot, and Auden in its time, and increasingly recognized as one of the great works of modernism, with two illustrations and a map by the author. One of 1500 copies printed. Winner of the prestigious Hawthornden prize and lauded by Yeats and Eliot, In Parenthesis narrated the First World War from the perspective of John Ball, a private in an English-Welsh regiment, from his departure from Britain through the Battle of the Somme. Auden called In Parenthesis “the greatest book about the First World War,” while Graham Greene placed it “among the great poems of the century.” Told in verse and prose and employing a number of modes of speech ranging from British dialects to military jargon, In Parenthesis captures the war as Jones saw it during his own experience as an infantryman. Jones “is increasingly regarded as an important, innovative poet, who has extended and refined the techniques of literary modernism” (Dictionary of Literary Biography). Foxing to endpapers, frontispiece tissue-guard, and a few interior leaves, cloth clean. Dust jacket with shallow wear to spine head, short closed tear to front panel, minor tape reinforcement to verso, clean and exceptionally good.
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