Editing Gone with the Wind (novel) (section)

===Publication and reprintings (1936 – US)===
The first printing of 10,000 copies contains the original publication date: "Published May, 1936". After the book was chosen as the Book-of-the-Month Club's selection for July, the publication was delayed until June 30. The second printing of 25,000 copies (and subsequent printings) contains the release date: "Published June, 1936". The third printing of 15,000 copies was made in June 1936. Additionally, 50,000 copies were printed for the Book-of-the-Month Club July selection. ''Gone with the Wind'' was officially released to the American public on June 30, 1936.<ref>Brown, E. F., et al., ''Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood'', pp. 61, 75, 81–82 & 91.</ref>