Margaret Mitchell's estate selected Alexandra Ripley to write the sequel. Scarlett was sanctioned by the estate of Margaret Mitchell as the official sequel to Gone with the Wind despite the fact that Margaret Mitchell herself refused to write a sequel and never granted rights for anyone else to do so. It had a floral pattern in the binding and was issued in a matching floral slipcase. It was signed, numbered, and limited to 5,000 copies. There was a first anniversary edition that was published a year after the first edition.
The back dust jacket panel has an excerpt from the book. Boards are white with gold lettering on a red cloth spine. Pages: 823 "First printing: September 1991" is stated on the copyright page above full number line "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1". Readers Digest Condensed Book selection Literary Guild alternate.First Edition Points and Criteria for Scarlett As the coincidence-laden plot twists towards its predictable ending, its myriad stereotyped characters utter dialogue embarrassing enough to make Robert E. Ripley (Charleston includes potentially interesting historical detail, but it is all but obscured by the sorely abused conventions of the historical romance genre that dominate her story. Mary perseveres through poverty, drudgery, a sham marriage and subsequent rape, voodoo and a yellow fever epidemic, the mesmerizing Saint-Brevin toying with her heart all the while. As Mary wanders the strange city, her path crosses that of her Aunt Celeste who, hoping to retain the inheritance left by Mary's mother, hides her identity from her niece. Mary escapes the brothel, virtue intact, but not before she is seen there by Valmont Saint-Brevin, a handsome Creole aristocrat. The naive girl soon falls into the clutches of New Orleans' most infamous madam.
When Mary's father dies, leaving his fortune to his unscrupulous second wife, 16-year-old Mary sets out for New Orleans to find her real mother's family. Set in antebellum Louisiana, this historical romance follows the fortunes of Mary McAlister, raised in a convent in Pennsylvania.
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