Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel | Interview with Margaret Mitchell from 1936 | American Masters | PBS Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel Interview with Margaret Mitchell from 1936 March 12, 2012 Comments Margaret Mitchell The following interview with Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone With the Wind was conducted by Mrs. Medora Perkerson, of The Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine, broadcast over radio station WSB, Atlanta, Georgia., July 3, 1936, on The Atlanta Journal. This is the first time this interview has been published in a digital format. MRS. PERKERSON: Peggy, I have read your book Gone With the Wind with a great deal of pleasure, but I know that many of our listeners are not familiar with it. So can you tell us, briefly, just what the book is about? MISS MITCHELL: I am glad to tell you, Medora. My novel is the story of a girl named Scarlett O’Hara, who lived in Atlanta during the Civil War and the days of Reconstruction. The book isn’t strictly a book about the war, nor is it a historical novel.

It’s about the effect of the Civil War on a set of characters who lived in Atlanta at that time. MRS. PERKERSON: Many critics are saying that your book sums up the whole story of the South and what the war and Reconstruction did to the South and to Southern people. The title of your book, Gone With the Wind means that the ante-bellum civilization was swept away by the tornado of war, doesn’t it? MISS MITCHELL: Yes, Medora, that is the meaning of the title, naturally I would be glad if people thought that the book did tell the story of the whole South. But that isn’t the kind of book I tried to write. It is a book about Georgia and Georgia people, — especially North Georgia people. There are incidents in the book which take place in Savannah, Charleston, Macon and New Orleans, but nearly all of the action takes place in Atlanta and at Tara, the plantation home of Scarlett O’Hara, the heroine. Tara was in Clayton County, near Jonesboro, Ga. The story begins on the plantation in the period when the old style Southern life was at its height. Then the war comes, and Scarlett O’Hara goes to Atlanta to live.

Thereafter, she experiences what Atlanta experienced during the war years — the thrills and excitement of the boom town that Atlanta became when the war changed it from an obscure small town into one of the most important cities in the South, then the increasing hardships as the Confederate cause waned, then the alarm of Atlanta people as they saw General Sherman’s army advancing steadily on the town, and ‘finally the terrifying days of the siege, the capture of Atlanta by Sherman and the burning of the town. Scarlett O’Hara goes through all those experiences and, after the war is over, she comes back to Atlanta and does her part in the rebuilding of the city. She lives through the terrible days of Reconstruction and the story carries her, and Atlanta, up to the time when the Carpetbaggers had been run out of Georgia and people could bean living their normal lives again. MRS. PERKERSON: Peggy, how did you happen to know so much about the wartime activities of Atlanta? MISS MITCHELL: My brother, Stephens Mitchell, had written an excellent Article in the Atlanta Historical Bulletin on the war-time industries of Atlanta. I used much of his material.

I also used facts I myself dug out of old newspapers of the war days and old diaries and letters of the period. I was surprised and thrilled to see how vital a part Atlanta played during the war, how important Atlanta was to the Confederacy. Atlanta wasn’t a big town in 1861. The population was only twelve thousand. But the little town had four railroads and they crossed here. And so Atlanta could draw supplies from the deep South to send to the armies at the front. The railroads connected Atlanta with the ports of Savannah, Charleston and Wilmington. The four railroads of Atlanta could feed the armies in Virginia and in Tennessee, Due to its safe position behind the lines. Atlanta was excellently suited for base hospital purposes and it had dozens of hospitals. In fact, eighty thousand sick and wounded passed through the Atlanta hospitals during the war. Overnight, there sprung up in Atlanta all kinds of war industries, for the South had to manufacture most of her war materials. There were pistol factories and percussion cap factories, tanneries and boot makers, saddle and harness factories.

There were machine manufacturing shops and there were iron rolling mills where the armor plate for war ships was turned out, as well as the iron rails for the rail-road tracks. There were wagon shops and hat and cap factories and every type of industry needed to support an army in the field. Little Atlanta was terribly important to the Confederacy. MRS. PERKERSON: General Sherman seemed to realize that, didn’t he? MISS MITCHELL: Yes, Sherman knew that he had to take Atlanta. If he hadn’t succeeded, Grant could never have defeated General Lee in Virginia. For as long as Atlanta was drawing supplies from the deep South and sending them to Virginia, General Lee’s army could still stay in the field. As I road all these facts about the importance of Atlanta I wondered why they had never figured in fiction. And I wondered why the fighting around Atlanta was almost entirely omitted from novels. So much has been written, in fiction, about the campaigns in Virginia, so little about the campaign from the Tennessee line to Atlanta.

And that campaign between General Sherman and General Johnston has always held more drama for me than any of the campaigns in Virginia, for General Johnston was far outnumbered from the start but he fought almost every day for months, slowly being driven back toward Atlanta but handling the retreat in a masterly way. I always thought it a truly heroic campaign and so I wrote about it. MRS. PERKERSON: Did you get all of your information about the Sixties and the Seventies from research? How did it happen that you, a very modern person, knew this era so well? MISS MITCHELL: Medora, I can answer that question best by saying that I grew up at a time when children were seen and not heard. That means that when I was a child I had to hear a lot about the Civil war on Sunday afternoons when I was dragged hither and yon to call on elderly relatives and friends of the family who had fought in the war or lived behind the lines. When I was a little girl, children were not encouraged to express their personalities by running and screaming on Sunday afternoons.

When we went calling, I was usually scooped up onto a lap, told that I didn’t look like a soul on either side of the family and then forgotten for the rust of the afternoon while the gathering spiritedly refought the Civil war. I sat on bony knees, fat, slick taffeta laps and soft, flowered muslin laps. I did not even dare wriggle for fear of getting the flat side of a hair brush where it would do the most good. I should add, while I’m talking about knees and laps, that cavalry knees were the worst knees of all. Cavalry knees had the tendency to trot and bounce and jog in the midst of reminiscences and this kept me from going to sleep, MRS. PERKERSON: It was lucky for your book that those cavalry knees did keep you awake, wasn’t it? Otherwise you’d have missed a lot of material you used in your book, wouldn’t you? MISS MITCHELL: Yes, fortunately for Gone With the Wind I had to stay awake.

So I heard about fighting and wounds and the primitive way they were treated, how ladies nursed in hospitals, the way gangrene smelled, what substitutes were used for drugs and food and clothing when the blockade got too tight for these necessities to be brought in from abroad. I heard about the burning and looting of Atlanta and the way the refugees from the town crowded the roads and trains to Macon, and I heard about Reconstruction, too. In fact, I heard everything in the world except that the Confederates lost the war. When I was ten years old, it was a violent shock to learn that General Lee had been defeated. I didn’t believe it when I first heard it and I was indignant. I still find it hard to believe, so strong are childhood impressions. MRS. PERKERSON: I don’t suppose children growing up now will ever get as excited about the Last Cause as we did who listened to grandmothers and grandfathers tell about firsthand experiences. MISS MITCHELL: No, and I think they are missing a lot. I am glad that I grew up at a time when there were plenty of old veterans in Atlanta.

Certainly I could never have written my book without my memories of those old men, when I was a little girl and rode my pony every afternoon, my boon companion was a fine old Confederate veteran. He looked exactly like a stage Confederate — white hair and goatee, jimswinger coat, and a habit of gallantly kissing, ladies’ hands, even my own grubby six-year-old hand. He and a young lady who had reached the beau age were the only two people in my part of town who owned horses. And we three went riding together. Atlanta wasn’t so big then and it didn’t take long to reach dirt roads and the country. We never went riding in the country that we didn’t pick up some other old veteran to ride with us: Frequently we had several veterans with us. The families of the veterans and my mother encouraged us to ride together in the belief that we’d keep each other out of mischief. MRS. PERKERSON: And did you? MISS MITCHELL: No, Medora. I regret to say that we didn’t. There was still plenty of fire and dash left in the old boys. They still had hot tempers and bullheads and they still dearly loved a fight.

The day seldom passed that they didn’t have a heated argument about the Civil War. And the day seldom passed when the young lady who accompanied us didn’t turn her horse and race for home. She realized, oven if I didn’t, that the company of quarrelsome old gentlemen was no place for a lady. MRS. PERKERSON: I’ll bet you didn’t go home. MISS MITCHELL: No, I didn’t, for at the age of six I was not concerned about being a lady. Besides I was too fascinated by the way the veterans shouted at each other. On these occasions, too, I was seen and not heard. I couldn’t have been heard, even if I had wanted to speak, for it would of taken the lungs of the bull of Bashan to be heard above their tumult. MRS. PERKERSON: What did they quarrel about? MISS MITCHELL: Oh, every subject under the sun, especially the particular regiments to which they had belonged in the Confederate army. Each one bragged about his own regiment and low-rated all the others. For instance, I recall one time when we flushed an old gentlemen who had been with Wheeler’s cavalry.

He was a tough, wiry, little old fellow. And another veteran who had been in Stuart’s Cavalry remarked that the boys in Wheeler’s cavalry were worse chicken thieves than Sherman’s men ever were. Of course, after that insult, they went at each other at the top of their voices and with their riding crops. The language they used was highly entertaining and very instructive to a small but interested girl. They talked about the Civil war all the time, refought old campaigns and argued about the tangled, bewildering muddle of politics of the Reconstruction days. Their remarks about the carpet baggers and scallawags of reconstruction days were also forceful and of deep interest to me. The young lady who went riding with us always turned her horse toward home why they got on the subject of Reconstruction, so how could I help knowing about the Civil war and the hard times that came after it! I was raided on it; I thought it had all happened just a few years before I was born. MRS. PERKERSON: Perhaps that is why you made it so real in Gone With the Wind.

And I think the thing we are all most proud of is that you have given the complete picture, not just one side of the old South and war and Reconstruction. It is all there in your book and it all comes alive. A lot of people are already saying that you must have taken some of the characters from real life. One of your characters, Aunt Pittypat is exactly like one of my relatives, and I’ll bet Charleston is going to rise up in a body and denounce the dashing Captain Rhett Butler of your book, not only because of his refusing to go into the Confederate army but for what he said about making money out of the wrecking of the Confederacy. Did you take any of your characters from real life? MISS MITCHELL: No, not a single character was taken from real life. In the first place, I wouldn’t know how to go about taking a character from life, and in the second place, made-up characters are so easy to handle. They will obey the author and do just what the author wants, whereas characters taken from real people are apt to be obstinate and unmanageable and to insist on having their own way. MRS.

PERKERSON: Your heroine, Scarlett O’Hara, is not at all like the usual Civil war heroine. She was just as shocking in her era as the flapper was in the jazz age. Was it your idea that Scarlett was the product of her time, just as the flapper was the product of the period following the World War? MISS MITCHELL: Yes, wars have a way of changing women, whether the women are dressed in hoopskirts and pantalets or in knee-length skirts and bobbed hair. The sorrow and hardships and poverty of the Civil War changed Scarlett O’Hara from a spoiled and selfish but otherwise normal Southern girl into a hardened adventuress, just as the wild period following the World War made modern girls cut loose from their mothers’ apron strings and do shocking things. MRS. PERKERSON: They say that a good woman has no history, or, at least, no one is interested in her history. But in your book, Gone With the Wind, I found Melanie Wilkes, your other heroine, who was a sweet, gentle character, almost as interesting as Scarlett.

Melanie and Scarlett went through the war and Reconstruction, side by side, and it was fascinating to see how the same set of circumstances produced such contrasts in character. The experiences that hardened Scarlett O’Hara and made her unscrupulous simply made Melanie Wilkes more of a lady, she could do anything she wanted to do, and not shock people as Scarlett did, simply because Melanie remained a lady… that seemed to me to be the real theme of the book, how different characters reacted under the stress of circumstances. MISS MITCHELL: If Gone With the Wind has a central theme, I suppose is the theme of survival. What quality is it that makes some people able to survive catastrophes and others, apparently just as brave and able and strong, go under? I have always been interested in this particular quality in people. We’ve all seen the same thing happen in the present depression. It happens in every social upheaval, in wars, in panics, in revolutions. It’s happened all the way down history from the time the barbarians sacked ancient Rome, And before that, I suppose, some people survive disasters. Others do not.

What qualities are in those people who fight their way through triumphantly — that are lacking in those who do go under? What was it that made our Southern people able to come through a war, a Reconstruction and the complete wrecking of all our social and economic systems? I don’t know. I only know that the survivors of the Civil war used to call that quality “gumption.” MRS. PERKERSON: Another thing that seemed to interest everyone I talked to about this book is the reality given by small details. Take the night Scarlett O’Hara went to Melanie’s party, just after she had been discovered in a compromising situation with Melanie’s husband. You had Scarlett wear a jade green watered silk dress with a large bustle adorned with pink velvet roses. It wouldn’t have done to describe this dress so minutely if ladies hadn’t worn rose covered bustles at that particular time, would it? MISS MITCHELL: Indeed it wouldn’t! The bustle came into style in 1868, replacing the wide hoop skirts of the war days. If I hadn’t gotten the date of the bustle correctly, lots of old ladies would have written me indignantly — saying that they never wore rose covered bustles at that time.

I had to do a lot of work on such small details as this — because I was very anxious to have Gone With the Wind accurate — not only in large historical facts but in the very smallest ones too. MRS. PERKERSON: Peggy, where did you find out all the thousands of small details? MISS MITCHELL: I read the files of old newspapers from 1860 to1878 and I read hundreds of old magazines, diaries and letters. And I don’t know how many hundreds of books I consulted. Those books were on every subject from Mid-Victorian architecture to how far a Confederate rifle would shoot. But best of all sources of information were my father and my late mother. Although both my father and my mother were born long after Reconstruction days — they know as much about those troublous times as though they had lived through them themselves, When they were children, they too had listened to the stories of the old folks and they remembered those stories and retold them to me. I think my father knows everything in the world about the Civil war, especially that part of the war which was fought in Georgia.

I believe he knows where every battery was placed in the Atlanta campaign, the exact name of the officer commanding it, what the officer’s mother’s mother’s maiden name was, and whether the officer was shot in the right leg or the left. My mother knew just as much as he did. What was even better, she knew about the social history of the sixties and the manner, of that day. She had kept her ears open when she was a little girl and she could tell me, for instance, what was considered genteel during the Civil war and what was considered fast. She knew what our grandmothers ate and how they dressed and what songs they sang and how long a young man must know a girl before he started calling her by her first name — with “Miss” preceding it, of course. MRS. PERKERSON: Thank you, Peggy, for telling me about the background of Gone With the Wind, I hope everyone has enjoyed it as much as I have. Gone With the Wind. | Raptis Rare Books Newsletter Gone With the Wind. "Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect": First Edition of Gone with the Wind; Finely Bound Gone With the Wind.

Item Number: 5029 New York: Macmillan, 1936. First edition of the author’s classic novel. First printing, with “Published May 1936” on the copyright page and no mention of other printings. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. In 1923, Margaret Mitchell became a feature writer for the Atlanta Journal, and in 1925, married John Marsh, a public relations officer for Georgia Power. She found most of her assignments unfulfilling, and she soon left to try writing fiction more to her own taste. Her own harshest critic, she would not try to get her work published. She began to write Gone with the Wind in 1926, while recovering from an automobile accident. Over the next eight years she painstakingly researched for historical accuracy. She accumulated thousands of pages of manuscript.

Here is how she later described her life's labor: "When I look back on these last years of struggling to find time to write between deaths in the family, illness in the family and among friends which lasted months and even years, childbirths (not my own), divorces and neuroses among friends, my own ill health and four fine auto accidents ... it all seems like a nightmare. I wouldn't tackle it again for anything. Just as soon as I sat down to write, somebody I loved would decide to have their gall-bladder removed. ... " In 1934, an editor from Macmillan's Publishers came to Atlanta seeking new authors. He was referred to John and Margaret Marsh as people who knew Atlanta's literary scene. She steered him to several prospects, but didn't mention her own work. A friend told him that she was writing a novel, but she denied it. On the night before he was to leave Atlanta, she appeared at his hotel-room door with her still imperfect, mountainous manuscript and left it with him for better or for worse. "This is beyond doubt one of the most remarkable first novels produced by an American writer. It is also one of the best" (New York Times).

Gone With the Wind is said to be the fastest selling novel in the history of American publishing (50,000 copies in a single day), and went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. Out of stock Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell - First Edition, with “Published May, 1936” on the copyright page; first issue dust jacket Gone with the Wind. New York: Macmillan, 1936. First Edition, with “Published May, 1936” on the copyright page; first issue dust jacket. 1037 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First Edition, in Jacket, With a Letter. Original gray cloth lettered in blue. Minor shelf wear, else a fine, tight copy, in a very good first-issue dust jacket, unclipped, with “$3.00” cost and with the “Spring Novels” advertisment on the lower panel showing this work as the second title in the right hand column. Short closed tear to top edge of front panel, some wear to ends of spine panel, small squared closed tear on back panel. Half green morocco slipcase and cloth chemise.

Willingham & Harwell 120; Harwell, In Tall Cotton 125. Item #237397 Laid in is a one-page Typed Letter, signed (“Margaret Mitchell Marsh”), from Mitchell to bookseller Robert Wilson, then a student at Johns Hopkins University, on a sheet of personal stationery headed “Margaret Mitchell,” dated Atlanta, Georgia May 21, 1941 and reading in full, “My dear Mr. Wilson, … I have read the letter which my secretary wrote to you and I find I have little to add to it. As she wrote to you, I am no speaker and have never made any lectures of any type, so I regret that I must refuse your invitation. I do feel so flattered that The Johns Hopkins University wanted me to make this talk, and I thank you so much for asking me. Cordially, [signed in ink] Margaret Mitchell Marsh. Mrs. John R. Marsh”.

Price: $10,000.00 Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind - First Edition - Signed | Bauman Rare Books Gone with the Wind Margaret MITCHELL Item#: 89484 We're sorry, this item has been sold “WHO WAS WITH ME FROM THE FIRST SHOT FIRED AT FORT SUMTER TO THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION”: FIRST EDITION OF GONE WITH THE WIND, WONDERFULLY INSCRIBED BY MARGARET MITCHELL TO ALMA JAMISON, WHO WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN THE WRITING OF THE BOOK MITCHELL, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. New York: Macmillan, 1936. Thick octavo, original gray cloth recased, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. First edition, in a first-issue dust jacket, of this American classic, inscribed and signed by the author: “To Alma Jamison who was with me from the first shot fired at Fort Sumter to the end of Reconstruction—I wouldn’t have dared print this book without your checking.

Margaret Mitchell.” Jamison was the head of the Reference Department of the Carnegie Library of Atlanta, who clearly assisted Mitchell in her extensive historical researches while writing Gone with the Wind. “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-telling” (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), Gone with the Wind won Mitchell the Pulitzer Prize. First printing, with “Published May, 1936” on the copyright page and no mention of other printings. First issue dust jacket with Gone with the Wind listed in second column of booklist on back panel. Books of the Century, 111. Eicher 730. In Tall Cotton 125.

Included is a copy of Margaret Mitchell’s ‘Gone with the Wind’ Letters, 1936-1949, which mentions Alma Hill Jamison twice and reprints a letter from 1949 in which Mitchell thanks Jamison for a list of books purchased for the library using funds bequeathed by Mitchell, in which she states “I hope in the future I will be able to continue donations for Georgia material for the Library and that you will be the person to make the selections.” Book and dust jacket expertly restored. An extraordinary presentation/association copy of this classic. ask an Expert shipping & guarantee If you are interested in an item from one of our catalogues or our website and would like more information before ordering it, please give us a call; one of our salespeople will be happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you might have. For some items, we can also email digital photographs. All of our items are guaranteed as described and are shipped on approval. We accept MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Discover, checks and wire transfer. For first-time buyers, we prefer a credit card and we will only ship to the billing address on the card.

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“Original wrappers,” those attached at the time of issue, are scarce and extremely desirable to most collectors. Receive Electronic Catalogues Gone with the Wind Study Guide - Course Hero 960 Synopsis Gone with the Wind is a novel written by Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County, Georgia, and Atlanta during the American Civil War and Reconstruction. It depicts the experiences of Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to come out of the poverty she finds herself in after Sherman's "March to the Sea". Margaret Mitchell was often asked what became of her lovers, Rhett and Scarlett, after the novel ended. She did not know, and said, "For all I know, Rhett may have found someone else who was less difficult." Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the book in 1937. The book was adapted into a 1939 American film. Gone with the Wind is the only novel by Mitchell published during her lifetime.

Characters Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, 1936, 1st Edition, Custom Binding - Franklin Books Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, 1936, 1st Edition, Custom Binding Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, 1936, 1st Edition, Custom Binding click image to enlarge June, 1936 Binding Beautifully rebound by Derek Woolf, Solihull, England in full “Confederate Gray” Nigerian calf leather with raised bands to the spine and gilt lettering. The pastedowns and endpapers are hand marbled. Details First edition, second state of Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel that is considered by many to be one of the great works of literature in the twentieth century. The first edition, first printing of the book was in May, 1936 but it was recalled and reissued in the following month. Gone with the Wind is the only novel by Mitchell published during her lifetime. It took her seven years to write and another eight months to check the thousands of historical and social references. The novel is one of the most popular books of all time having sold more than 30 million copies.

Basis for the 1939 Academy Award winning film starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. The book measures approximately 8.5” x 6”, 446 pages. Condition Report The binding is in FINE condition with the most minimal of surface wear. Internally complete and clean with minimal age tanning and a visible hinge tape reinforcement at the third front end page. Photographs of the book appear in the photo section of the listing. Have A Question About This Product? Name: Question: Franklin Books Guide to Condition Descriptions We realize that buying books online is difficult because you don't have the luxury of actually seeing the book before you make your decision. At Franklin Books, we strive to make your purchases as risk-free as possible. We follow four basic rules: We grade our books conservatively; We describe our books as extensively and accurately as possible; We pack our books tightly and securely for shipping. If you feel a book does not match our description, it is returnable for a full refund. The following are the terms used to describe our books: Mint - As New: The book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published and most likely will be in the original publisher's shipping box or shrink wrap.

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Name Gone with the Wind by Mitchell, First Printing, First Edition - AbeBooks Gone with the Wind by Mitchell, First Printing, First Edition You Searched For: Results (1 - 30) of 67 1 Used Hardcover First Edition Signed Quantity Available: 1 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Macmillan, 1936. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, first printing SIGNED by Margaret Mitchell on front free endpaper. This is the TRUE FIRST EDITION published May 1936. A spectacular first issue dustjacket with "Macmillan Spring Novels" printed on the top back panel. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is vibrant in colors with no chips, or tears. The book is in excellent shape. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with light wear to the spine and edges. The pages are clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a beautiful copy SIGNED by the author and housed in a custom clamshell slipcase for preservation. Signed by Author(s).

Bookseller Inventory # ABE-623003379 Published by The Macmillan Company, New York (1936) Used Hardcover First Edition Signed Quantity Available: 1 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: The Macmillan Company, New York, 1936. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Margaret Mitchell on the front free endpaper. A wonderful copy. This First Issue dustjacket with "Gone with the Wind" title printed on the second column of the back panel has minor wear the spine and edges. The book is in great shape. The binding is tight with light wear to the spine and edges. The pages are exceptionally clean. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a superb copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION PUBLISHED May 1936 SIGNED by the author. We buy SIGNED Margaret Mitchell First Editions. Signed by Author(s).

Bookseller Inventory # ABE-8987702792 Published by Macmillan, New York (1936) Used Hardcover First Edition Signed Quantity Available: 1 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Macmillan, New York, 1936. First edition of the author's classic novel. Octavo, original gray cloth. Signed by Margaret Mitchell on the front free end paper. First printing, with "Published May 1936" on the copyright page and no mention of other printings. First issue dust jacket, with Gone with the Wind listed in the second column of the booklist on the back panel, with $3.00 cost on the front flap. Near fine in the original dust jacket with some light professional restoration to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A very nice example. In 1923, Margaret Mitchell became a feature writer for the Atlanta Journal, and in 1925, married John Marsh, a public relations officer for Georgia Power. She found most of her assignments unfulfilling, and she soon left to try writing fiction more to her own taste.

Her own harshest critic, she would not try to get her work published. She began to write Gone with the Wind in 1926, while recovering from an automobile accident. Over the next eight years she painstakingly researched for historical accuracy. She accumulated thousands of pages of manuscript. Here is how she later described her life's labor: "When I look back on these last years of struggling to find time to write between deaths in the family, illness in the family and among friends which lasted months and even years, childbirths (not my own), divorces and neuroses among friends, my own ill health and four fine auto accidents . it all seems like a nightmare. I wouldn't tackle it again for anything. Just as soon as I sat down to write, somebody I loved would decide to have their gall-bladder removed. . " In 1934, an editor from Macmillan's Publishers came to Atlanta seeking new authors. He was referred to John and Margaret Marsh as people who knew Atlanta's literary scene. She steered him to several prospects, but didn't mention her own work. A friend told him that she was writing a novel, but she denied it.

On the night before he was to leave Atlanta, she appeared at his hotel-room door with her still imperfect, mountainous manuscript and left it with him for better or for worse. "This is beyond doubt one of the most remarkable first novels produced by an American writer. It is also one of the best" (New York Times). Gone With the Wind is said to be the fastest selling novel in the history of American publishing (50,000 copies in a single day), and went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. Bookseller Inventory # 4313 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: 1936. MITCHELL, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. Original cloth, non-priceclipped dust jacket. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First edition, first issue of the author's first and only book, with "Published May, 1936" on copyright page and no mention of later printings. In the first issue jacket, with Gone with the Wind listed in second column on rear panel.

Presentation inscription from the author on the front free endpaper, "For Mary Buck, Margaret Mitchell." Due to its size and popularity, this Pulitzer Prize winning novel is now seldom encountered in collectible condition. Jacket hinges professionally strengthened, faint toning to endpapers, else a very good copy. In Tall Cotton 125. Bookseller Inventory # 71897 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: The Macmillan Company, New York, 1936. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. A beautiful copy. This is the TRUE FIRST EDITION with the words "published May 1936" printed on the copyright page. This First Issue dustjacket is vibrant in color with NO fading to the spine and the $3.00 printed price is present. This ORIGINAL dustjacket has NO chips or pieces missing with slight wear to the edges. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION in collector's condition.

Bookseller Inventory # ABE-15205797092 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Macmillan, 1936. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing published May 1936. This copy is SIGNED by Margaret Mitchell on the front endpaper. A beautiful SIGNATURE NOT inscribed to anyone. The book is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's cloth with light wear to the spine and edges. The binding is tight and the pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a wonderful copy SIGNED by the author with a spectacular facsimile dustjacket from the ORIGINAL. We buy SIGNED Margaret Mitchell First Editions. Signed by Author(s). Bookseller Inventory # ABE-10743241203 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: The Macmillan Company, 1936. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing, with "Published May, 1936" on the copyright page.

Fine, in a Near Fine first issue dust jacket with Gone with the Wind placed in the second column of books listed on the rear panel; $3.00 price intact on bottom corner of front flap, top corner clipped. Cloth is sharp and bright. Dust jacket shows light edge wear along the top edge, with light chipping to the front and rear panels; light rubbing at folds; light dimpling to spine; rear panel lightly rubbed. A remarkably well preserved copy, in a stunning dust jacket. Housed in a custom folding case. Bookseller Inventory # 160212001 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: The Macmillan Company, New York, 1936. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing with the words "published May 1936" printed on the copyright page. Later editions were published June, July August, etc. A beautiful copy. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is rich in color and the $3.00 printed price is present on the front flap. This First Edition, second issue dustjacket has NO chips or pieces missing with light wear to the spine and edges.

The book is in great shape. The binding is tight with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION bound in the original publisher's cloth. Bookseller Inventory # ABE-13402379517 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: The Macmillan Company, New York, 1936. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Margaret Mitchell on the front free endpaper. The book is in very good condition with some wear to the spine and boards. The book is bound in the publisher's ORIGINAL cloth. The pages are clean with light wear. There is NO marks or bookplates in the book. A collectible copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION published May 1936. Includes a beautiful facsimile dustjacket from the ORIGINAL. Signed by Author(s). Bookseller Inventory # ABE-13516766342 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: 1936. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good.

1st Edition. New York, NY 1936. 1037 pages. First Edition, ï¿½Published May 1936ï¿½ on copyright page, first printing of first edition, in first printing dust jacket. In Tall Cotton #125. Pulitzer Prize winner in 1937. ï¿½The book that lives on and on.ï¿½ ï¿½ In Tall Cotton. First edition in dust jacket, interior clean and tight, former ownerï¿½s name on front fly, jacket soiled with some chips and a mended tear to front panel, in custom clamshell box with red leather spine label stamped in gold. Plus 1936 24-page pamphlet issued by MacMillan providing illustrations and biographical information on Mitchell and her books in response to the astronomical sales of this title, 700,000 copies by October. The pamphlet offers Gone With The Wind at the initial price of $3. The pamphlet has an illustrated frontis photograph of Mitchell. The pamphlet is uncommon.

Bookseller Inventory # ABE-18667191287 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Macmillan (UK), 1936. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The First UK printing published by Macmillan (London) in 1936.The BOOK is in near FINE condition.A little pushing at the spine tips with very early splaying of the boards.Covers are clean with black titling.Mild offsetting to the prelims and end papers. Mild toning and spotting to the text block.Previous owner's inscription to the verso of the front blank end paper.

Green top stain still present but faded.The WRAPPER is the correct First Issue state and is price-clipped.It is in VERY GOOD++ or better condition.Minor edge wear with loss at the upper front spine and front upper flap fold.Closed tear to upper rear spine fold.Amazingly, there is No fading of colouring to the spine.The wrapper has spotting to the verso which comes through very mildly in places to the front.The 'Daily Mail Book Of The Month' Promotional Band is complete and bears the correct price of 10s 6d net.The band is lightly foxed and has had a small amount of professional restoration to the folds in places.The period wrapper design looks very striking in the removable Brodart archival protector.A monumental classic considered by many to be not only the greatest love story ever written,but also the greatest Civil War saga.Margaret Mitchell's 'Gone with the Wind' is the bestselling novel of all time and her unforgettable characters have become American icons. One of the most important books in American literary history, Mitchell's Civil War epic was a huge success when published, winning the Pulitzer prize for fiction. It's international renown was further enhanced by the film version starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh.

Incredibly scarce as a first UK edition and at the time of listing, the only available copy available on the market.Housed in a custom Solander box with gilt titling. A fabulous copy with such attributes! ashtonrarebooks welcomes direct contact. Bookseller Inventory # ABE-15906316631 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: The Macmillan Co., New York, 1936. Original Cloth. Book Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Original gray cloth, lettered in blue. Slightly rubbed corners and spine extremities without tears or exposure, text block edges typically somewhat toned by age, faint stray mark to cloth on upper spine panel, which shows just the slightest toning. Firm binding, clean interior, hinges fully intact. Slight diagonal creasing to title page. 1037 pp. First edition, first printing, "Published May, 1936." on copyright page with no mention of subsequent printings. Signed by author on front flyleaf in vintage blue fountain pen, full signature, no inscription or date. Color illus.

dust jacket is brand-new facsimile, correctly matched to this printing with "Macmillan Spring Novels" (not including this title) on the rear panel. Photographs available upon request. Notably well preserved copy would probably be evaluated as Near Fine in many estimates, but we prefer to err on the conservative side. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book. Bookseller Inventory # 037344 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: The Macmillan Company, New York, 1936. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Ultra-rare cover design matching original wrapper design in stamped maroon and green hues. Butternut (greyish brown) buckram (cloth) boards, crisp stamped cover titles, large and bold as original dust wrapper in maroon and dk. green w/palatial southern scene as on original wrapper. Spine matches standard title design in maroon and green. Lt. shelf wear, moderate spine rub. Deckled pages very good; no writing. Unique grey marbled endpapers. Bind solid, straight; hinges intact.

There were over one hundred printings of the first edition. Very good, third July printing, and sixth overall, w/truly unique cover design. Extremely rare printing. There were over one hundred printings of the first edition. The stirring drama of the Civil War and Reconstruction is brought vividly to life in this really magnificent novel. Unparalleled drama, action and romance flower within the breathtaking wonders of this inspired spectacle of the written word and the most magnificently, exciting love story, ever! First published in 1936, Gone with the Wind sold 50,000 copies on its first day, and two million after a year. Even though it is 1,037 pages long, readers all over the world snatched up the book; by 1937 it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the film rights had been sold to David O. Selznick. Mitchell prided herself on the historical accuracy of her work; and, it is a sweeping account of how the Civil War tore apart an entire way of life. The stirring drama of the War Between the States and Reconstruction is brought vividly to life in this magnificent novel.

Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara remain two of the most enduring characters in American fiction. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. Bookseller Inventory # 018930 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Macmillan Company, New York, New York, 1936. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. N/a (illustrator). First Edition. First edition, first printing with "Published May, 1936" on copyright page (no other months or reprint runs listed). Signed by Margaret Mitchell on front endpaper. Name plate on inside front board. Light yellowing to endpapers. Previous owner's short, two-line inscription on top edge of reverse of front endpaper. Moderate wear to edges of spine and corners of boards. Faint yellowing to cloth over spine and edges of rear board. Jacket is a 17th printing jacket. Small tears and chips and some rough wear to edges of jacket. Jacket included in clear mylar cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Bookseller Inventory # 49633 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: MacMillan, New York, 1936. Grey Cloth. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing stating 'Published May,1936' on copyright page. Jacket has book title on second column of book list on bqck panel, and is price clipped but else whole, with the following noted: small (1/8") chips at top corners of jacket spine not affecting title, and a 3/16" chip at the top flap corner; otherwise a very good, clean jacket with whole panels front and back and the original $3.00 price intact. In a Brodart jacket cover. The dust jacket is scarce in any condition, but especially this fine. A clen, tight, unmarked copy protected by a Brodart jacket cover. Size: Large Octavo. Bookseller Inventory # 1308316 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: 1936. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

First Edition, ï¿½Published May 1936ï¿½ on copyright page, first printing in first edition, later state dust jacket. Interior tight and clean, excepting light soil and foxing to first few pages. Minor insect holes to upper and lower blank margins of 1/2 title, boards slightly soiled. This copy was sent to reviewer Nell Henson, reviewer notice tipped inside front cover. Henson has signed on the first blank fly and made pencil notations in the book. Dust jacket has marginal tears and chips. In custom box with leather label plus 1936 24-page pamphlet issued by MacMillan providing illustrations and biographical information on Mitchell and her books in response to the astronomical sales of this title, 700,000 copies by October. The pamphlet offers Gone With The Wind at the initial price of $3. The pamphlet has an illustrated frontis photograph of Mitchell signed. Outside of back wraps yellowed and abraded where once tipped. Bookseller Inventory # ABE-18667191292 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Macmillan, 1936. Hardcover.

Book Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing with "Set up and electrotyped. Published May 1936" printed on the copyright page. Later editions are published in June. A very good copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION published in May. The binding is tight with some wear to the panels. The pages are clean with minor wear. There is no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a nice copy with a beautiful facsimile dustjacket of the original in collector's condition. Includes a Macmillan Company laid in card that appears to be a review copy for the book.

Bookseller Inventory # ABE-6557241925 "Gone With the Wind" 1936 First Edition Book by Margaret Mitchell : EBTH View More Items from Cincinnati, OH Antiques, Collectibles & More "Gone With the Wind" 1936 First Edition Book by Margaret Mitchell Sunday, January 24th 2016 @ 6:14pm EST Ended Sunday, January 24th 2016 @ 6:14pm EST Ended Item Details A Gone With the Wind first edition, 6th printing, novel by Margaret Mitchell. This book was published by The Macmillan Company in New York, November of 1936. Bound in gray canvas and blue lettering. The book follows the struggles of Scarlet O’Hara amidst the Civil War and her fight to rise up from poverty. Comes with a Dort Motor Car Company Pamphlet. - wear to spine, binding, and pages consistent with age and handing - writing to the inside of the book. Dimensions 6.0" W x 2.0" H x 8.5" D - measured book.

Bid Now Item Details A Gone With the Wind first edition, 6th printing, novel by Margaret Mitchell. This book was published by The Macmillan Company in New York, November of 1936. Bound in gray canvas and blue lettering. The book follows the struggles of Scarlet O’Hara amidst the Civil War and her fight to rise up from poverty. Comes with a Dort Motor Car Company Pamphlet. - wear to spine, binding, and pages consistent with age and handing - writing to the inside of the book. Dimensions 6.0" W x 2.0" H x 8.5" D - measured book. Have a similar piece to sell? Related Items from Our Archives Gone With the Wind Book and Menu Description: A hardcover edition of the novel Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell and a memorabilia menu. Included are a “The Main Dining Room” Luncheon Menu and the seventy fourth printing dated 1965 of Gone With the Wind published by ... The Easton Press Gone With The Wind In Description: An Easton Press " Gone With The Wind " in two volumes. This is a 1997 edition of the classic epic by Margaret Mitchell.

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Gone with the Wind Here to Stay on AbeBooks Margaret Mitchell (sold) Signed First/First in Custom Southern Cross-designed Morocco binding When Gone with the Wind hit the big screen in 1939, it was like nothing audiences had ever seen - a sweeping, panoramic drama of epic proportions, complete with turmoil, life lessons and more romance than anyone could ask for - in almost four hours of technicolor. But the story had already made its mark in the pages of Margaret Mitchell's book. First published in 1936, Gone with the Wind won the 19th Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and had readers everywhere eagerly turning pages. Criticized by some for a lack of originality in writing style, a failure to achieve consistent tone, and especially its inherent racism and refusal to take a firm stance against slavery, the novel was neverthless a smashing success. The story is one of struggle, growth and survival in harsh physical and emotional circumstances.

Scarlett O'Hara especially is a fascinating character, beginning as a spoiled, entitled, wealthy girl unaware of her own privilege, and growing up quickly throughout the novel as she endures indescribable tests of faith and mettle in the form of war, death, loss, hunger, rejection, tragedy, and the general shock of the transition from untold wealth and servant slaves to going hungry and having to fend and work for herself and others. Even in the midst of her darkest hours (of which there are many, throughout the novel's dramatic 1000+ pages), Scarlett is fierce, brave, manipulative, dramatic and scheming. While she displays courage and resilience under fire, she never learns the lessons of humility, real kindness or authenticity, instead consistently plotting ways to better her own station and turn situations to her advantage. With her desperation and driven determination toward her own ends, Scarlett O'Hara remains, the better part of a century after her initial debut in the world of fiction, one of literature's most lasting and notable drama queens. Now, decades after the book's debut, there are numerous editions available for collectors and readers alike.

True first edition, first printing copies in good condition or better can easily fetch four figures and up, with Mitchell's signature, intact dustjacket, and fine or better condition sending prices into the five figures. Notable Editions of Gone with the Wind

Question: Which novel by Margaret Mitchell was first published in 1936?
Answer: Gone With the Wind