GONE WITH THE WIND by Mitchell, Margaret - 1936

New York: Macmillan, 1936. Thick octavo. Gray cloth, lettered in blue. Spine extremities worn and bumped, with 2cm creased snag at crown of spine, usual slight tanning to endsheets, but internally a very good copy. First edition, first ("May 1936") printing. Inscribed and signed by Mitchell on the front free endsheet: "For Charles J. Trenkle Margaret Mitchell," and with the recipient's bookplate on the front pastedown. A modest, albeit inscribed and signed, copy, suitable for craft binding, in stars and bars perhaps, as seems to have become fashionable. "The book that lives on and on, decried by the devotees of higher criticism, scorned by the intellectuals, and loved by the public. It was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1937" - Harwell. WILLINGHAM & HARWELL 120. IN TALL COTTON 125.