Gone with the Wind.

MITCHELL (Margaret) & DELRUE (Paul) [Binder]

Gone with the Wind.

FIRST EDITION, BOUND BY PAUL DELRUE

First edition, first printing with printed publication date of ‘May 1936’. 8vo., 22x15.5cmm 1037pp. Fine later binding by Paul Delrue in full red goatskin, covers with pictorial design of trees in a field, trees and borders rendered in yellow goatskin onlay, with the landscape rendered in Delrue’s signature lacunose technique with layers of coloured leather sanded down to form bands of colour and texture, spine titled boldly with yellow leather onlay, edges painted using multi-coloured acrylics described by Delrue as representing ‘wind on fire’, yellow goatskin doublures with red reverse calf endleaves, binding unsigned, with original yellow cloth drop back box with spines and covers lettered in gilt. New York, Macmillan, 1936.

£7,000.00

Fine.

Strikingly bound by Paul Delrue, who explained that ‘I have tried very hard to distance myself from [the] masterful, magnificent film…. a wonderful opportunity to re-read the book and capture by feelings on the book covers on a grand scale’. His binding is intended to invoke ‘a battle scene, perhaps… like looking through a large window, to fertile land growing for future generations. There are birds brooding above, waiting for the next chapter.’ The binding appears in Paul Delrue’s autobiography, My Soul has no Friends (pp. 225-6), where he remembered it fondly, ‘a book I have truly enjoyed binding’.

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