First Edition Second Printing 1936 Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell Pulitzer

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Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Gone With the Wind". First edition, second printing from June, just one month after the first printing. Published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1936. Thick octavo [6" x 9"], 1037 pp. Winner of the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Novel (Fiction). A brand new facsimile (reproduction) dust jacket is included for protection and display. The book is in fair condition. Minor wear to the boards and spine. Sunning to the spine and board edges. The front board is cracked at the hinge, exposing the webbing underneath; The rear board is starting. Foxing to the preliminary and terminal pages, including title page and first few pages of text. Previous owner's signature faintly present on the front paste-down. Moisture staining at the bottom gutter and margin of the textblock throughout. The textblock is lightly toned. Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone with the Wind” is a romance novel set in Georgia during the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era that followed. The novel centers on its protagonist, Scarlett O’Hara, and her struggle to rebuild and sustain her wealth, which had been lost as a result of the fall of the Confederacy. Using any means necessary, Scarlett regains what she has lost, in large part due to Rhett Butler, a scoundrel and scallawag with a bad reputation. The trials and tribulations read more