Margaret Mitchell

First edition copy with original dust jacket and a typewritten letter by the author.

• Margaret Mitchell (American).
• First edition, with “Published May, 1936” on the copyright page. 
• New York: Macmillan, 1936.
• 1037 pp. 1 vols.
• 8vo.
• Original gray cloth lettered in blue.
• Unclipped, with “$3.00” cost and with the “Spring Novels” advertisement on the lower panel, showing this work as the second title in the right-hand column.
• Half green morocco slipcase and cloth chemise.

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 May 21, 1941 and reading in full, “My dear Mr. Wilson, … I have read the letter which my secretary wrote to you and I find I have little to add to it. 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 do feel so flattered that The Johns Hopkins University wanted me to make this talk, and I thank you so much for asking me. Cordially, [signed in ink] Margaret Mitchell Marsh. Mrs. John R. Marsh.”

Willingham & Harwell 120.

Harwell, In Tall Cotton 125.