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Grey cloth, dust jacket. Later printing. 

With a 2 page autograph letter, signed, on her personal letterhead, to a fan explaining why she is unable to autograph books any longer "when the sales neared the million mark the requests for autographs rose in proportion. They came in in thousands - personal calls, letters, by wire and by telephone - hundreds of copies were sent me through the mail...Things reached the point where I was forced to refuse to autograph for anyone, even relatives and close personal friends...I have had to establish this rule in self-defense. I hope you will understand." She closes the letter with "It would make me very happy if you would clip my signature from the bottom of this letter and paste it in your copy". The present copy is that of the letter's recipient, with Mitchell's signature dutifully clipped and affixed, with cello-tape, to the title page, the original envelope, with Mitchell's Atlanta address on the flap, is affixed to the rear endpaper. Several newspaper clippings pasted to front endpapers.