Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell - 1996

VERY GOOD condition --- Firm binding. Crisp exterior. Clean, unmarked pages. NOTE: Minor blemishes to textblock gilded page ends, head and foot; very minor scratches to foredge Please inspect photos closely for condition details. If any questions? Please don't hesitate to ask.


This text was featured in the Easton Press series "Great Books of the 20th Century". Published in 1996, and bound in handsome Grey leather, the book is beautifully illustrated by John Groth.


Specifics of this series from the Easton Press website:


* Fully and tightly bound in genuine leather.
* 22kt gold accents deeply inlaid on the "hubbed" spine.
* Heavy duty binding boards... .
* Superbly printed on acid-neutral paper... .
* Sewn pages – not just glued like ordinary books.
* ...moiré endpages and a satin-ribbon page marker.
* Gilded page ends.


Included with the book is an insert of Collector's Notes published by Easton Press.


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" 'Gone with the Wind' is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. . . . This historical novel features a coming-of-age story, with the title taken from the poem "Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae", written by Ernest Dowson.

'Gone with the Wind' was popular with American readers from the outset and was the top American fiction bestseller in 1936 and 1937. As of 2014, a Harris poll found it to be the second favorite book of American readers, just behind the Bible. More than 30 million copies have been printed worldwide. . . .

Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the book in 1937. It was adapted into the 1939 film of the same name, which has been considered to be one of the greatest movies ever made and also received the Academy Award for Best Picture during the 12th annual Academy Awards ceremony. . . . "

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" 'My dear, I don't give a damn.'

Margaret Mitchell's page-turning, sweeping American epic has been a classic for over eighty years. Beloved and thought by many to be the greatest of the American novels, Gone with the Wind is a story of love, hope and loss set against the tense historical background of the American Civil War.

The lovers at the novel's centre -- the selfish, privileged Scarlett O'Hara and rakish Rhett Butler – are magnetic: pulling readers into the tangled narrative of a struggle to survive that cannot be forgotten. . . .

'For sheer readability I can think of nothing it must give way before' --- The New Yorker

'What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under?' --- Margaret Mitchell"


The above text was taken from, respectively, Wikipedia and Random House publishers (via Google Books)
[Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. United Kingdom: Random House, 2020.]


This handsome copy would be a worthy addendum to your collectible books library.