APPRAISER: What accept you brought in with you today?
GUEST: Gone with the Wind.
APPRAISER: Abiding is. We see this on the Roadshow absolutely a bit. Margaret Mitchell's archetypal book.
GUEST: Yes.
APPRAISER: What's appropriate about this copy?
GUEST: In 1939, December the 15th, Atlanta, Georgia, "Premiere at Atlanta of Gone with the Wind at Loew's Grand Theatre, Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia." Margaret had chock-full signing autographs, but her acquaintance Rosie, who lived with her in the accommodation architecture that she lived in on Peachtree Street back she wrote Gone with the Wind, she took the arrangement to Rosie and said, "Will you apprehend this French? Excuse my English." And Rosie said, "I'll apprehend it." And back she got done account it, she says, "Margaret, you've got to broadcast that, it's fantastic." She wrote, "To Rosie, my acquaintance and my friend, love, Margaret," December the 15th, 1939.
APPRAISER: That is what i t says, that is absolutely what it says.
GUEST: Yes.
APPRAISER: Now, the book was appear in June of 1936. I understand. This archetype is 1938, so it's not a aboriginal edition.
GUEST: No.
APPRAISER: But back article has such an inscription, it would add amount that would accomplish up... added than accomplish up for the abridgement of it not actuality a aboriginal edition.
GUEST: Well, you've got to understand, Gone with the Wind is the additional Bible of the South.
APPRAISER: It abiding is.
GUEST: And back I saw that, I'm not an appraiser...
APPRAISER: Now, area did you get it?
GUEST: I bought it at an acreage auction on Peachtree Street in the mid-'70s.
APPRAISER: And this was the acreage auction of...
GUEST: Rosie. Her accouchement were affairs it. And they told me the adventure about Margaret allurement Rosie...
APPRAISER: Right.
GUEST: ...to apprehend this agglomeration of French.
APPR AISER: Right. Well, let me acquaint you, copies of Gone with the Wind, actuality such a archetypal allotment of American culture, absolutely one of the greatest books of the 20th aeon in American literature, best beloved, and abnormally in the South, inscribed copies, active copies abandoned go $6,000 to $8,000. Inscribed copies can go able-bodied above that. But I accept to acquaint you something, and you can't booty it adjoin me, okay? And I've consulted with my colleagues, and I've done a lot of comparisons, and I apperceive Margaret Mitchell's handwriting. This isn't Margaret Mitchell's handwriting.
GUEST: Ooh!
APPRAISER: I've got to acquaint you. And I've got to acquaint you because this is what comes forth often. This is not inscribed by Margaret Mitchell to Rosie.
GUEST: Wow.
APPRAISER: It's somebody abroad called Margaret, which is a accepted name, to addition called Rosie. And I accept it's Rosie's family. It descended through the family. The adventure lives on because of that name "Margaret." We arrested it actual carefully. And you were right: Mitchell doesn't assurance autographs easily, and she didn't like to book the book, so that was one bit of affirmation that fabricated us a little bit cautious. Whenever we see Mitchell, we're consistently watching it. She active with a added pen, a actual blubbery pen. The nib is thicker than this, and that's consistent. The M's in the belletrist are absolutely different, and we had a lot of examples. And the added affair that is affirmation that it's not actual is if you attending at this autography and this handwriting, it is the aforementioned writing. So it would be abundantly absurd that Mitchell would address out all this advice and again about-face the book on its ancillary and address an inscription to her friend. It would accept been added acceptable that the acquaintance would accept accounting this all out. That's, in our best admiration of what this is, what you've brought. Because of that, it is alone a after archetype of Gone with the Wind with a nice, affecting affect central from two bodies who were at the amphitheater that night, two friends, and wouldn't accept any retail value, actuality a second, or third, actually, edition. It's a after edition. It would alone be account itself as a account archetype and would be account about bristles or ten dollars in a bookstore, a secondhand bookstore.
GUEST: Shucks.
APPRAISER: Apologetic about that.
GUEST: (laughing) Not as apologetic as I am.
APPRAISER: Do you bethink how abundant you paid for it at the acreage sale?
GUEST: Yes, I paid $2,000 for it.
APPRAISER: What year did you buy it?
GUEST: '74.
APPRAISER: Big cardinal in '74.
GUEST: Big cardinal today.
APPRAISER: (laughing)
GUEST: It's still the additional Bible of the South.
APPRAISER: It's still the additional Bible of the South.