Do i have an original first edition copy or the manuscript?

[Arkfault]

Hello i have had what i believe to be a rare first edition of Gone With the Wind but it does not have a Print Date or a Copyright date anywhere in the book and it also has a blue hard cover. Do i have a first edition? or is it the original Manuscript? It has two stories that differ widely from the common versions often found in stores or at antique parlours.

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Thank you.

[The Atheist]

You won't have the original manuscript, because that's in a library in Connecticut: http://flavorwire.com/166380/the-original-manuscript-of-gone-with-the-wind-rediscovered/

It won't be a first edition either, because that would have publisher's details.

My guess is that you have a bootleg copy, of quite a number were printed.

[Arkfault]

it is a real edition does have publishers info. it was give to esther rides( korlous) who went to school with margret mitchem. jusit is signed in inside hard cover on the front.

[PeterL]

Then you should simply assume that it was a special gift edition that Margaret Mithell had printed for a few friends.