Gone With the Wind. Mitchell, Margaret First Edition

First edition of Margaret Mitchell's masterpiece which remains one of the fastest selling novels in the history of American publishing, with 50,000 copies sold in a single day. Octavo, original cloth. First printing, with â Published May 1936â on the copyright page and no mention of other printings. Boldly signed by Margaret Mitchell on the front free endpaper. In very good condition. â Mitchellâ s sweeping rendition of a South torn apart by civil war... has become national mythologyâ (New York Public Libraryâ s Books of the Century, 111).Ââ 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-tellingâ (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),ÂGone with the Wind won Mitchell the Pulitzer Prize.Â