By

Margaret Mitchell

Published by The MacMillan Company

New York

March printing, 1937

Hardcover.

Original cloth binding.

Includes the original Dust Jacket.

( the jacket has the original $3.00 price on the lower front flap ).

6" x 8.5"

1,037 pages.

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Nice Condition.

Just slight wear to the binding.

This book was very well looked-after, and the binding was protected by the dust jacket since the day it was printed; the result is that the binding is in nice condition.

( see the photos )

The original dust jacket is present and in fairly good condition; it has a little edge-wear. 

The dust jacket has some carefully-done old paper repair-work on the inside, at the edges, to stabilize some worn spots.

No tape! 

The repair work was done well and minimally, with thin paper carefully glued to the inside surface of the dust jacket.

( see the photos ) 

The hinges are very tight.

Old stamping on the front endpaper :

" This book is the property of Edward A. Donoven "

( with " + Arlene Dexter " added )

The pages are in excellent condition, throughout the book.

Original dust jacket and nice condition.

Carefully packed for shipment to the buyer.

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Gone With The Wind  by Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949).

An instant success upon its release in 1936, a year later Mitchell was awarded the Pulitzer prize for her effort.

Set in the Atlanta , Georgia region during the Civil War and Reconstruction era, Mitchell's story exemplifies the proper writing of historical fiction, with painstaking accuracy of language, mannerisms, and morals. The war itself is also presented as it should be presented - in full color and with all its moral ambiguity, rather than the black-and-white presentation that so often is the norm in modern discourse.

Mitchell's painting of southern culture and the all-encompassing war serve as the background for one of the most poignant love stories ever written. Following the life and loves of the willful Scarlett O'Hara, the work delves straight into the meaning and nature of love. Torn between her now-married childhood love, Ashley, and the outcast Rhett Butler, and in dogged pursuit of financial success after the devastating war, Scarlett lives a life of emotion and passion that few fictional characters have rivalled.

In many ways, the novel makes an even greater impact than the famous film. Unhampered by censorship, the world that surrounds Scarlett in the book is more realistic than that presented in the movie - painful miscarriages, brothels, wounds and poverty fill Mitchell's picture of the post-war south and make Scarlett's character much stronger and of greater depth than as portrayed in the film.

Even so, the style is light and brisk, the language uncomplicated except in the heavy dialect of the blacks, and the story compelling.

"Gone with the Wind" is a great book, a great movie, and one of the greatest love stories ever told.