![]() ![]() He was referred to John and Margaret Marsh as people who knew Atlanta's literary scene. " In 1934, an editor from Macmillan's Publishers came to Atlanta seeking new authors. Just as soon as I sat down to write, somebody I loved would decide to have their gall-bladder removed. 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. She accumulated thousands of pages of manuscript. Over the next eight years she painstakingly researched for historical accuracy. She began to write Gone with the Wind in 1926, while recovering from an automobile accident. Her own harshest critic, she would not try to get her work published. She found most of her assignments unfulfilling, and she soon left to try writing fiction more to her own taste. 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. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. ![]() ![]() First printing, with “Published May 1936” on the copyright page and no mention of other printings. $2,750.00 Item Number: 43084įirst edition of the author’s classic novel. ![]()
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