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1936140938421New York: The Macmillan Company 1936. First Edition. Near Fine/Poor. First edition first printing with "Published May 1936" on the copyright page. Signed by Margaret Mitchell on the front free endpaper. Very Good with a short tear to the cloth at the top of the spine light general rubbing and light wear and toning to the pages. With remnants of the tattered first issue dust jacket present though in rather poor condition. A lovely copy of the first printing signed by the author. The Macmillan Company unknown books
1937252027Atlanta Georgia 1937. One page on personal letterhead. 4to. light creasing and toning esle fine. One page on personal letterhead. 4to. To Cukor on "old mimosa groves" - "bees demented in the blossoms" -- and Tallulah. Mitchell thanks Cukor for the gift of Mary Chess perfumes and especially the "mimosa":<br/><br/>"I had tried someone's brand of mimosa many years ago but it was heavy enough to be used as an anesthetic for a major operation. This brand is so sweet and faint and the lovliest part about it is that it reminds me of old mimosa groves far in the back country on a still hot day with the bees demented in the blossoms."<br/><br/>She then goes on to discuss Tallulah Bankhead's recent performance in Atlanta which she unfortunately missed:<br/><br/>'Of course I was eager to go but the show opened the night after the Pulitzer Award arrived. The Vice President of The Macmillan Company was in town and he gave me a party that night. I hoped to see her the following night but the house was so filled with friends and excitement that I could not go to the theatre. I was very disappointed for everyone was charmed with her. So few people here had liked her in her films and I am afraid many of them went to see her play determined not to like it. But everyone was most enthusiastic about her and the phone rang all day long as people told me how charming she was. "<br/><br/>Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel GONE WITH THE WIND; and George Cukor was David Selznick's first choice as director of the film. unknown books
1936Embry 177556The Macmillan Company 1936. First edition first printing. Rebound fine thus in custom slipcase with matching leather title label. Rebound in full confederate gray morocco by master binder Glenn Fukunaga spine panels with double gilt surrounds and crossed confederate swords central device. Briefly inscribed "Foir Gunvor Svendsen Margaret Mitchell." The Macmillan Company, 1936. First edition, first printing. hardcover books
1936WRCLIT51586New York: Macmillan 1936. Thick octavo. Gray cloth lettered in blue. Modest rubbing at corners with a few small smudges to cloth usual light tanning to endsheets but a very good tight copy in shelfworn dust jacket with a creased edge tear two large chips to the spine panel and a clean split part way up the lower joint. Half morocco folding slipcase. First edition first printing. Signed by Mitchell on the front free endsheet. The dust jacket is price-clipped but is in the preferred state with the "Spring Novels" advert on the lower panel showing this work as the second title in the right hand column. "The book that lives on and on decried by the devotees of higher criticism scorned by the intellectuals and loved by the public. It was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1937" - Harwell. WILLINGHAM & HARWELL 120. Harwell IN TALL COTTON 125. Macmillan hardcover books
19881653591988. MITCHELL Joan. Smoke. Poems by Charles Hine. Illustrated with 16 sugarlift and spitbite aquatints by Joan Mitchell. Folio loose as issued laid-in to a cloth folding box. San Francisco: Limestone Press 1988. Comprised of 16 diptych etchings by Mitchell and accompanied by poems of Charles Hine this book is the result of a wonderful collaboration between the artist poet and publisher. Mitchell a celebrated American abstract expressionist created the etchings using sugarlift and spitbite aquatint technique. Signed on the colophon by Mitchell and Hine. One of 80 copies. hardcover books
19363055New York: Macmillan 1936. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. First printing May 1936 in first issue jacket. A Fine copy of the book in a lovely Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket with slight rubbing to the front panel a small chip at the lower front corner and one small tear with a tape repair on the verso. Overall a very clean and attractive example.<br/><br/>Set in Georgia during the Civil War and Reconstruction the novel follows the fall of the South and its gentility as experienced by Scarlett O'Hara one of literature's most ruthlessly optimistic characters. More than a war story Gone With the Wind is a reflection on humanity. "Mitchell carefully analyzes the nature of human resilience and hold up hopefulness as the critical tool for getting through the worst of times" The Guardian. Popular from its release and an almost-immediate best-seller Gone With the Wind won the Pulitzer Prize the following year and would be transformed into one of the most iconic Hollywood golden-era films starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable. No other work of literature more fully captures the old Southern gentility than Gone With the Wind. "This is beyond a doubt one of the most remarkable first novels produced by an American writer. It is also one of the best" contemporary New York Times Book Review. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Macmillan unknown books
1960140940127New York: Tiber Press 1960. First Edition. Fine. Complete in four folio volumes each measuring 17½" x14¼". Each volume with three full-page color silkscreen prints and additional prints at title page and upper cover original cloth-backed illustrated boards. First Edition. No. 47 of 200 copies. Each volume signed by the poet and artist on the limitation page. A Fine set bright and sharp in publisher's thick acetate jackets housed in cloth slipcase with light shelf wear.<br /> <br /> <p>A visionary collaboration between the leading lights of the New York School of poetry and four second generation abstract expressionist artists produced at the height of their creative collective powers. A heady encapsulation of the New York literary and visual avant garde at the dawning of the '60s. Tiber Press unknown books
19362011509MacMillan 1936. First edition. hardcover. Very good/Very good. First edition first issue book May 1936 on copyright page in a first issue dust jacket lower position of listing for this title inscribed and dated by Margaret Mitchell in Atlanta 1936. Very good in a very good price-clipped first issue dust jacket with Housed in a custom-made slipcase. MacMillan unknown books
1936117051New York: The Macmillan Company 1936. First edition of Mitchell's masterpiece. Octavo original gray cloth. First printing with "Published May 1936" on the copyright page and no mention of other printings. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For Mary Buck Margaret Mitchell." Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A superior example. In 1923 Margaret Mitchell became a feature writer for the Atlanta Journal and in 1925 married John Marsh a public relations officer for Georgia Power. She found most of her assignments unfulfilling and she soon left to try writing fiction more to her own taste. Her own harshest critic she would not try to get her work published. She began to write Gone with the Wind in 1926 while recovering from an automobile accident. Over the next eight years she painstakingly researched for historical accuracy. She accumulated thousands of pages of manuscript. Here is how she later described her life's labor: "When I look back on these last years of struggling to find time to write between deaths in the family illness in the family and among friends which lasted months and even years childbirths not my own divorces and neuroses among friends my own ill health and four fine auto accidents . it all seems like a nightmare. I wouldn't tackle it again for anything. Just as soon as I sat down to write somebody I loved would decide to have their gall-bladder removed. . " In 1934 an editor from Macmillan's Publishers came to Atlanta seeking new authors. He was referred to John and Margaret Marsh as people who knew Atlanta's literary scene. She steered him to several prospects but didn't mention her own work. A friend told him that she was writing a novel but she denied it. On the night before he was to leave Atlanta she appeared at his hotel-room door with her still imperfect mountainous manuscript and left it with him for better or for worse. "This is beyond doubt one of the most remarkable first novels produced by an American writer. It is also one of the best" New York Times. Gone With the Wind is said to be the fastest selling novel in the history of American publishing 50000 copies in a single day and went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1932124744London: Jarrolds Publishers 1932-1934. First editions of each volume of Gibbon's classic trilogy describing the life of Chris Guthrie a woman from the north-east of Scotland during the early 20th century each volume inscribed by him to George Malcolm Thomson. Octavo original cloth 3 volumes. Sunset Song is inscribed on the title page "For G. Malcolm Thomson L. Grassic Gibbon." Cloud Howe is the dedication copy inscribed on the title page "For the 'dedicatee' with kind regards. L. Grassic Gibbon." Grey Granite is inscribed on the title page "For George Malcolm Thomson with good wishes L. Grassic Gibbon." Each are in very good condition. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed. A Scots Quair is revolutionary - innovative in its form deft and humorous in its use of language courageous in its characterization and politics. Central to the trilogy is Chris Guthrie one of the most remarkable female characters in modern literature. In Sunset Song Gibbon's finest achievement the reader follows Chris through her girlhood in a tight-knit Scottish farming community: the seasons the weddings the funerals the grind of work the gossip. As the Great War takes its toll machines replace the old way of life. Cloud Howe and Grey Granite take Chris from her rural homeland to life in an industrial Scotland and the desperate years of the Depression. Gibbon attracted attention from his earliest attempts at fiction notably from H. G. Wells but it was his trilogy entitled A Scots Quair and in particular its first book Sunset Song with which he made his mark. A Scots Quair with its combination of stream-of-consciousness lyrical use of dialect and social realism is considered to be among the defining works of the 20th century Scottish Renaissance. All three parts of the trilogy have been turned into serials by BBC Scotland written by Bill Craig with Vivien Heilbron as Chris. Additionally Sunset Song has been adapted into a film released in 2015. Jarrolds Publishers hardcover books
193613197JNew York: Macmillan 1936. First Edition First Issue. Signed by Margaret Mitchell on the flyleaf. Laid into the book is what is considered the finest Clark Gable letter extant an amazing reflection all about Gone With the Wind. Dated January 25 1960 it is a Typed Letter Signed in blue ink by Clark Gable on his printed stationery with the original stamped envelope which is written to the News Editor of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper Mr. Actor Cordell Jr. who had asked for Gable’s remarks on Gone With the Wind twenty years after the release of the film classic and to which Clark Gable wrote this amazing response: "Dear Mr. Cordell: I have received your letter of December 29 and will answer your questions in the order which you ask them. - Yes it does seem like 20 years. - I feel about GONE WITH THE WIND as being one of the greatest pictures ever made not because I played a leading role in it but because of the great story the way the story was brought to the screen the production it received and because of its very fine cast. When I look at the picture now after 20 years I still feel it is one of the finest motion pictures ever made. - Yes I think Rhett Butler is my favorite role and I am associated more with GONE WITH THE WIND than with any of my other pictures. - As to suggestions for the casting of Rhett in the forthcoming stage musical this is a little out of my line. I am sure the producer and the director will be completely capable of finding a very fine Rhett Butler. - Of the late Margaret Mitchell I would like to say that in addition to writing a wonderful novel she was of great help to me before I started working in the picture advising me of the manner in which she thought I should attempt to portray Butler. I listened to her and followed her advice and fortunately for me everything she told me was right. Naturally she was the one to whom I went for advice because she was the one who had created the character. I am forever grateful to Margaret Mitchell. - Most sincerely Signed Clark Gable.†This letter was written shortly before Gable left to film his final motion picture the late masterwork The Misfits co-starring Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift directed by John Huston using an original screenplay by Monroe’s husband Arthur Miller. Gable died in November a few days after shooting his last scene. This articulate and fascinating letter therefore remains his final observations about Gone With the Wind. The book itself is a near fine first edition in original cloth in a very good first issue dust jacket with some minor expert restoration by a paper conservationist. A truly historic piece enclosed in a very handsome custom morocco and cloth custom box. Macmillan hardcover books
193613198JNew York: Macmillan 1936. First Edition First Issue. Signed by Margaret Mitchell on the flyleaf. Laid into the book is what is considered the finest Clark Gable letter extant an amazing reflection all about Gone With the Wind. Dated January 25 1960 it is a Typed Letter Signed in blue ink by Clark Gable on his printed stationery with the original stamped envelope which is written to the News Editor of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper Mr. Actor Cordell Jr. who had asked for Gable’s remarks on Gone With the Wind twenty years after the release of the film classic and to which Clark Gable wrote this amazing response: "Dear Mr. Cordell: I have received your letter of December 29 and will answer your questions in the order which you ask them. - Yes it does seem like 20 years. - I feel about GONE WITH THE WIND as being one of the greatest pictures ever made not because I played a leading role in it but because of the great story the way the story was brought to the screen the production it received and because of its very fine cast. When I look at the picture now after 20 years I still feel it is one of the finest motion pictures ever made. - Yes I think Rhett Butler is my favorite role and I am associated more with GONE WITH THE WIND than with any of my other pictures. - As to suggestions for the casting of Rhett in the forthcoming stage musical this is a little out of my line. I am sure the producer and the director will be completely capable of finding a very fine Rhett Butler. - Of the late Margaret Mitchell I would like to say that in addition to writing a wonderful novel she was of great help to me before I started working in the picture advising me of the manner in which she thought I should attempt to portray Butler. I listened to her and followed her advice and fortunately for me everything she told me was right. Naturally she was the one to whom I went for advice because she was the one who had created the character. I am forever grateful to Margaret Mitchell. - Most sincerely Signed Clark Gable.†This letter was written shortly before Gable left to film his final motion picture the late masterwork The Misfits co-starring Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift directed by John Huston using an original screenplay by Monroe’s husband Arthur Miller. Gable died in November a few days after shooting his last scene. This articulate and fascinating letter therefore remains his final observations about Gone With the Wind. The book itself is a near fine first edition in original cloth in a very good first issue dust jacket with some minor expert restoration by a paper conservationist. A truly historic piece enclosed in a very handsome custom morocco and cloth custom box. Macmillan hardcover books
