Author: MITCHELL Margaret
Title: Gone with the Wind. [First UK Film Edition.] FIRST UK FILM EDITION IN FULL MOROCCO
Description: Macmillan,, 1940. 8vo., First Edition thus; handsomely bound in navy full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame borders, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ORIGINAL DUSTWRAPPER PANELS (FRONT PANEL WITH LOSS) MOUNTED ON NEW AND SEPARATE LEAVES AT FRONT, ribbon marker, custom-made slip-case, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Mitchell's Civil War masterpiece was first published in the UK in September 1936 (three months after its US predecessor). This is the first UK edition published (with redesigned dustwrapper) to capitalise on the success of Victor Fleming's multi-Oscar-winning feature film of the same year starring Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland.

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