Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell

The Gianakos-Safos Collection holds two copies of Margaret Mitchell’s classic novel Gone with the Wind (Pulitzer Prize-Fiction, 1937), one a first printing with an author inscription sheet, and the other a first printing in a first state dustjacket.

The author inscribed copy, seen here, is most extraordinary. Nancy Nickell Fennel was long a literature, art and music enthusiast, which she could further cultivate as the hostess wife of Dr. Eric Fennel, a clinical pathologist, long based in Honolulu, Hawaii. Dr. Fennel came to be celebrated alongside his Honolulu residence built sometime in the teens of the twentieth century, on the lot at 2310 Ferdinand Avenue, from at least 1921. Before there were Blood Banks, Dr. Fennel retained his own supply of plasma at his home refrigerator, which he transported in a basket to a military hospital during the bombing of Pearl Harbor that led to America’s entrance in the Second World War. The home became the locus of meetings for military personnel and for the first screening of the filming of the atomic bomb that concluded the War. Throughout the decades, the Fennels made the home the locus of numerous cultural events as well.

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