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Southern Classics Library leather edition of Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind," Watercolor from original first edition by Herb Bridges, Photo of Margaret Mitchell courtesy of Atlanta Historical Society, published in 1984 by Oxmoor House for the Southern Living Gallery. Bound in burgundy leather, the book has decorative paper end leaves, hubbed spine, a satin book marker, Symth-sewn binding, acid-free paper, gold gilding on three edges---in near Fine condition---except for an attached bookplate. In the eve of the American Civil War in 1861, SCARLET O'HARA lives at TARA, her family's cotton plantation in GEORGIA, with her parents and two sisters. Scarlett learns that ASHLEY WILKES—whom she secretly loves—is to be married to his cousin, MELANIE HAMILTON, and the engagement is to be announced the next day at a barbecue at Ashley's home, the nearby plantation Twelve Oaks. At the Twelve Oaks party, Scarlett secretly declares her feelings to Ashley, but he rebuffs her by responding that he and Melanie are more compatible. Scarlett is incensed when she discovers another guest, Rhett Butler, has overheard their conversation; a smitten Rhett promises Scarlett he will keep her secret. Scarlet marries CHARLES HAMILTON, and later FRANK KENNEDY and when Frank dies defending her honor, she later married RHETT. In 1935, when Margaret Mitchell finished "Gone With the Wind," she completed a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that would capture and hold the imagination of the entire world. By the time of her death in 1949, her book had sold more than eight million copies and had been translated in forty countries. Over the years, the names of Mitchell's characters---Scarlett O'Hara, Rhett Butler, Melanie and Ashley Wilkes---have become household words. A flawlessly researched work about the American Civil War period, it is a unique historical and sociological account of the time. Never out of print, "Gone With the Wind" has sold more hardback copies than any other novel written by an American. 1037 pages. I offer Combined shipping.
