1986 Gone With the Wind, 50th Anniversary First Edition Facsimile, classic books, civil war books, first edition anniversary

1986 Gone With the Wind, 50th Anniversary First Edition Facsimile, classic books, civil war books, first edition anniversary

1986 first edition facsimile of Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With the Wind,” published by MacMillian for the 50th anniversary of the 1936 novel. HC w/ DJ. NF.

Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. It depicts the struggles of young Scarlett O’Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty following Sherman’s destructive “March to the Sea”. 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