Mitchell, Margaret. Borte med Blaesten [Gone With the Wind]. Copenhagen, Steen Hasselbalachs Forlag, 1937

Mitchell, Margaret. Borte med Blaesten [Gone With the Wind]. Copenhagen, Steen Hasselbalachs Forlag, 1937

8vo, first Danish edition of "Gone With the Wind"' the first illustrated edition of this novel, presentation copy inscribed by the author to her danish publisher ("To Georg Jervin with great appreciation Margaret Mitchell Atlanta, Ga. U.S.A. Sept 6, 1937"), map of the American South at the beginning, special binding of brown morocco, lettered in gilt on the spine, decorated endpapers, top edge gilt

For a letter by Margaret Mitchell to Georg Jervin about this edition and its illustrations, see the previous lot. It may be noted that the mistake in the map which she noticed was rectified: the map in this edition does not show Decatur at all.

This copy may be one of a small number bound for presentation.

Gone With the Wind was first published in American the year before, in May 1936.