Margaret Mitchell - Autant en emporte le vent (Gone with the Wind), 1st French Edition including Dust Jacket! - 1938

Autant en emporte le vent (Gone with the Wind)
by Margaret Mitchell

Rare First French Edition – with Original Dust Jacket!
Published by Gallimard, Paris, 1938 (dated February 1939 on the final page).

This is the first French translation of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind, one of the most influential novels of modern literature.

Set in Clayton County and Atlanta, Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction, the novel follows Scarlett O’Hara, the spirited daughter of a Southern plantation owner, as she faces love, loss, and survival amid a changing world.

Published only two years after the original 1936 release, this edition captures the early international impact of Mitchell’s masterpiece. The title, drawn from Ernest Dowson’s poem Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae, reflects the novel’s central themes of change and endurance.

A beautiful and historically significant edition — especially rare with its original dust jacket intact.