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Edition in Fine condition in Very Good+ dust-jacket with some edgewear.

Margaret Mitchell, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "Gone With the Wind," was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1897. As a child, she moved with her family to Charleston, South Carolina, where she spent her formative years. After graduating from college, she moved to New York City, where she worked as a reporter and then an editor for a publishing company. In 1936, she published her first book, a historical novel, "The Wind Done Gone." Mitchell's success as a writer was immediate and unprecedented; "Gone With the Wind" was published in 1936 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937. The book was an immediate success and has since become one of the most popular and beloved novels in American history. In 1949, Mitchell published her second book, "The Story of a Marriage." The book was based on her own marriage to a man she had met while living in New York City. The book was also successful and won the Pulitzer Prize; B & W Photographs; 8vo; 533 pages.

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