Rare signed book: Tuulen Viemaa [Gone With the Wind], Volume I. First Finnish edition. Helsinki, Finland: Otava, 1937. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8, 514 pages. Boldly signed and inscribed on the first free end page in fountain pen to her publisher, "To Harold Latham from Margaret Mitchell, Atlanta, Ga., May 12, 1938." Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG/G+, with tears and paper loss to dust jacket edges. The domestic popularity of Mitchell's Southern romance led to its translation and publication abroad: by the end of 1937, it had appeared in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Finland, Italy, and Czechoslovakia. In a 1945 letter to Malcolm Cowley, Mitchell wrote: 'It never occurred to me Gone With the Wind would be translated into any foreign language. When it appeared in so many languages and had such astoundingly good reviews, I was breathless, and still am.' The recipient of this important presentation copy was none other than Macmillan editor Harold Latham, who 'discovered' Mitchell and published the novel in 1936 to overnight success. A rare and spectacular piece of literary history.
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