MITCHELL, Margaret.

£2,750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Gone With the Wind. First edition, in the first issue dust jacket. Mitchell's sole published novel met with immediate acclaim and record-breaking sales, winning her the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The film adaptation, starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, followed in 1939. Due to their enduring but not uncontroversial popularity, both the novel and the film have become touchstones for subsequent representations and discussions of the Reconstruction era in American popular culture. The first printing is dated May, rather than June, on the copyright page. Dust jackets in the first issue advertise this title on the rear panel in the second row of the second column.

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