How many “Motion Picture Edition” books of GWTW have been produced?
There are at least six different Motion Picture Editions of “Gone With The Wind.” In conjunction with the release of the movie, a paperback (yellow cover featuring the Paris Hat scene) was issued by Macmillan for 69 cents. This cover says “Complete and Unabridged.” And actually all six of these Motion Picture Editions have the exact same inside pages (although two versions include full GWTW printing history). At some point, Grosset & Dunlap bought a stock of the paperback edition and replaced the paper cover with their own cloth cover (it came in both red and green cloth) and provided a dust jacket featuring an artist rendition of Scarlett and Rhett in the garden of a lovely Southern home). The Grosset & Dunlap books say “Complete Edition” on the cloth cover and “Complete and Unabridged” on the dust jacket. Then Macmillan decided to publish a hardcover Motion Picture Edition featuring the Paris Hat Scene (that was on the original paperback edition). These Macmillan hardcover editions w
