I do feel so flattered that The Johns Hopkins University wanted me to make this talk, and I thank you so much for asking me. As she wrote to you, I am no speaker and have never made any lectures of any type, so I regret that I must refuse your invitation. I have read the letter which my secretary wrote to you and I find I have little to add to it. Laid in is a one-page Typed Letter, signed ("Margaret Mitchell Marsh"), from Mitchell to bookseller Robert Wilson, then a student at Johns Hopkins University, on a sheet of personal stationery headed "Margaret Mitchell," dated Atlanta, Georgia and reading in full, "My dear Mr. First Edition, with "Published May, 1936" on the copyright page first issue dust jacket. Half green morocco slipcase and cloth chemise. Short closed tear to top edge of front panel, some wear to ends of spine panel, small squared closed tear on back panel. Minor shelf wear, else a fine, tight copy, in a very good first-issue dust jacket, unclipped, with "$3.00" cost and with the "Spring Novels" advertisment on the lower panel showing this work as the second title in the right hand column.
The movie had its world premiere at the Loews Grand Theater in Atlanta Dec. The novel was made into an equally famous motion picture starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable. Margaret Mitchell was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her sweeping novel in May 1937. First Edition, with "Published May, 1936" on the copyright page first issue dust jacket. Gone With the Wind was published in June 1936. A sweeping story of tangled passion and courage, in the pages of Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell brings to life the unforgettable characters that have captured readers for over seventy years.New York: Macmillan, 1936.
This is the tale of Scarlett O’Hara, the spoiled, manipulative daughter of a wealthy plantation owner, who arrives at young womanhood just in time to see the Civil War forever change her way of life. A superb piece of storytelling, it vividly depicts the drama of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Widely considered The Great American Novel, and often remembered for its epic film version, Gone With the Wind explores the depth of human passions with an intensity as bold as its setting in the red hills of Georgia. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Since its original publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind-winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the bestselling novels of all time-has been heralded by readers everywhere as The Great American Novel.
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