Mitchell, Margaret

8vo. Owner's inscription in black in to half-title, author's inscription in blue ink to title. Publisher's gray cloth, cover and spine lettered in blue, original pictorial dust-jacket; rubbing to head and foot of spine with some fraying, dust-jacket present but separated at folds.

[with]: Black and white photograph (4 1/2 x 3 9/16 in.; 115 x 90 mm). Members of Mitchell's freshmen class at Smith College, with "Peg" kneeling in foreground. — 2 Confederate bills (6 5/8 x 2 15/16 in.; 168 x 75 mm and 7 1/16 x 3 1/4 in.; 178 x 80 mm). Georgia note signed by Mitchell in blue ink on the verso: "To Robin | from | Margaret Mitchell | Atlanta, GA | Dec. 14, 1936".

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, WITH MAY 1936 ON TITLE-PAGE VERSO. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED: "To Virginia Morris, my room | mate at Smith College, my | friend for many years | With love | Peggy | Margret Mitchell | Atlanta, GA | Dec. 14, 1936". Mitchell and Morris lodged together at 10 Henshaw Avenue, a college approved boardinghouse, where Mitchell was apparently one of its most vibrant and engaging tenants. During her tenure there, Mitchell was already offering colorful discourses on the Civil War, its conflicts seeming to possess her more than "the current unpleasantness in Europe." After finishing her freshman year at Smith, and following the death of her mother, Mitchell went back to Atlanta to take over the household for her father and never returned to Smith College.