Margaret Mitchell — Gone with the Wind

London, Macmillan and Co, 1939 . Cloth. A wonderful example of the 1939 'Holiday Edition' of Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, published only months before the release of the award winning motion picture. The 'Holiday Edition' of this classic novel, published only three years after the 1936 first edition. In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. One of the best-selling American novels ever written, 'Gone With the Wind' is a romantic drama set in the midst of the American Civil War, following spoilt plantation heiress Scarlett O'Hara. This 'Holiday Edition' of Mitchell's tale was published only months prior to the release of the 1939 motion picture adaptation, starring Vivian Leigh, Clark Gable and Hattie McDaniel. With a contemporary inscription dated July 1939 to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Boards bright, with shelf wear to back strip head and tail. Inscription to front free endpaper. Sunning to dust wrapper back strip, with losses of paper to back strip head and tail, and handling marks to wraps. Tape restoration to reverse at back strip head and tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Very Good.