Mitchell margaret

28 789 résultats

Trier parPrix décroissant

Pertinence Auteur A - Z Auteur Z - A Titre A - Z Titre Z - A Prix croissant Prix décroissant Libraire A - Z Libraire Z - A

Par page25

25 50 100

Filtres

[SIGNED BY THE MOTION PICTURE CAST] MITCHELL, MargaretBiblio.com

Gone With the Wind.

GABLE CLARK & MARGARET MITCHELLABAA

Gone With the Wind - By Margaret Mitchell

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 Gableâ€™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.â€ 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 Monroeâ€™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

James Pepper Rare Books, Inc. · États-Unis85 000,00 $US≈ 71 918,50 €

MITCHELL MARGARET & CLARK GABLEABAA

Gone With the Wind - By Margaret Mitchell

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 Gableâ€™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.â€ 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 Monroeâ€™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

James Pepper Rare Books, Inc. · États-Unis85 000,00 $US≈ 71 918,50 €

MITCHELL, MARGARET & CLARK GABLEBiblio.com

Gone With the Wind - By Margaret Mitchell

James Pepper Rare Books, Inc. · États-Unis65 000,00 $US≈ 54 996,50 €

Selznick, David O [Margaret Mitchell]Biblio.com

Gone With the Wind Final Shooting Script.

1939152173Hollywood: Selznick International 1939. Rare final shooting script of the most celebrated film in Hollywood history a remarkable presentation copy inscribed by producer David O. Selznick to his special effects chief Jack Cosgrove in the year of the film's release. Quarto bound for Selznick in contemporary custom red half morocco for presentation with Cosgrove's name stamped in gilt on the front board and the spine with five raised bands lettered in gilt original yellow wrappers bound in titled "Gone With the Wind from the novel by Margaret Mitchell. Screen Play by Sidney Howard. Produced by David O. Selznick. Directed by Victor Fleming. Final Shooting Script January 24 1939" with six black-and-white movie stills inserted throughout - among them the burning of Atlanta the sequence that crowned Cosgrove's achievement. Presentation copy inscribed by Selznick on the first blank "For Jack who was always willing to try the impossible-and who always achieved it! With gratitude for a great job. DOS Xmas 1939." The recipient Jack Cosgrove was the leading special effects artist of Hollywood's golden age nominated for five Academy Awards over the course of his career for Gone With the Wind Rebecca The Pride of the Yankees Since You Went Away and Spellbound. Working day and night through the summer of 1939 Cosgrove and the assistants he supervised at Selznick International produced hundreds of the matte paintings - rendered on large glass panels and known on the lot as "Cosgrove shots" - that were combined with the live footage to create most of the film's panoramas of the antebellum South. It was his brush that conjured the great house at Tara the sweep of Twelve Oaks and the burning of Atlanta supplying the visual grandeur on which the film's epic scale depends. From the collection of Tony Grammy and Emmy Award-winning composer Charles Strouse and his wife choreographer Barbara Siman. Over his 50-year career Charles Strouse wrote the music for such iconic musical theater hits as Bye Bye Birdie Applause and Annie as well as the theme song for the classic sitcom All in the Family "Those Were the Days". His partnership with Martin Charnin on Annie produced one of Broadway's most successful scores ever with "Tomorrow" and other songs from the production becoming enduring American musical standards admired by generations. His reach knew no genre or generation - from a number-one Billboard hit in 1958 to Jay-Z's Grammy-winning sampling of "It's the Hard-Knock Life" four decades later - and his honors include three Tony Awards and induction into both the Songwriters and Theater Halls of Fame. In near fine condition rebacked. An extraordinary association copy uniting the producer of Gone With the Wind with the artist who painted its most unforgettable images. David O. Selznick’s production of Gone With the Wind directed by Victor Fleming from Sidney Howard’s screenplay of Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel premiered in Atlanta in December 1939 and went on to win eight Academy Awards plus two honorary awards — including a posthumous Oscar for Howard’s screenplay the first ever awarded posthumously — and remains adjusted for inflation the highest-grossing film ever made. The final shooting script of January 24 1939 represents the text from which this monument of American cinema was filmed. Selznick had a small number of copies specially bound for presentation to key members of the cast and crew at Christmas 1939 each with the recipient’s name stamped in gilt and stills selected with the recipient in mind; they are today among the most coveted artifacts of Hollywood’s golden age. Selznick International hardcover

Raptis Rare Books · États-Unis30 000,00 $US≈ 25 383,00 €

Gibbon Lewis Grassic James Leslie MitchellABAA

A Scots Quair Trilogy. Including: Sunset Song Cloud Howe and Grey Granite.

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

Raptis Rare Books · États-Unis27 500,00 $US≈ 23 267,75 €

MITCHELL John 1711 1768. Georges Louis LE ROUGE 1712 1790ABAA

Amerique septentrionale avec les Routes Distances en miles Villages et Etablissements FranÃ§ois et Anglois. Par le Docteur Mitchel Traduit de l'Anglois . Corigee en 1776 par M. Hawkins.

177726040Paris: Le Rouge 1777. Engraved map hand-coloured in outline on 8 sheets individual sheets: 27 1/4 x 21 inches if joined would form a single large sheet 59 x 79 inches with large allegorical cartouche and inset map of Hudson's Bay and Labrador. Good condition small repaired tear. Housed in a red morocco backed box. A fine example of a French edition of Mitchell's monumental mapping of Colonial America a scarce issue published during the American Revolution. "John Mitchell was not a mapmaker by profession rather he was a medical doctor natural philosopher and botanist of considerable merit. Yet his sole cartographic endeavor.was perhaps the greatest produced in the history of America" Degrees of Latitude. Mitchell's Map of the British and French Dominions in North America is widely regarded as the most important map in American History. Prepared on the eve of the French & Indian War it was the second large format map of North America printed by the British and included the best up to date information on the region. Over the next century it would play a significant role in the resolution of every significant boundary dispute involving the northern border of the then British Colonies and later the United States. It was also the map-of-record at the birth of the United States and continued in this role through several decades in the early life of the country. John Mitchell a respected British physician botanist chemist biologist and surveyor lived for a time in Virginia but returned to England in 1746 where he remained. Mitchell initially conceived of his map of North America as the best method of presenting to the British public in a single large format image of all the colonies the extent of the French threat to the British claims in North America. Mitchell completed his first draft of the map in 1750. However because he was limited to publicly available sources of information this initial effort was rather crude even in Mitchell's own opinion. But word of Mitchell's work spread and the Board of Trade and Plantations retained Mitchell to make a new map using the official manuscript and printed maps and reports in the Board's possession including maps by Fry and Jefferson Christopher Gist George Washington John Barnwell and others. The Board also instructed all the colonial governors to send detailed maps and boundary information for Mitchell's use. Mitchell's map was first published by Andrew Millar in 1755 the year before war broke out with the French. The map is decidedly pro-English in its interpretation of the various boundaries and geographical information depicted on the map as would be expected for what amounted to thinly veiled pre-war propaganda. In addition to the geographical detail shown on the map Mitchell included many annotations describing the extent of British and French settlements. He also submitted a report to the Board in 1752 listing the French encroachments and his ideas of ways to encourage British settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains as a means of combating French influence in the region. Mitchell's map shows the British Colonial claims of Virginia both Carolinas and Georgia extending beyond the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean. In the West Mitchell's treatment of the lower Missouri is a vast improvement over earlier maps. Regarding the source of the Missouri Mitchell noted that the Missouri river was reckoned to run westward to the Mountains of New Mexico as far as the Ohio does eastward reflecting his belief in symmetrical geography. Mitchell correctly shows the northern branch of the Missouri to be the main branch of the river although his estimate of the latitude of the river's source is inaccurate. Nonetheless the information Mitchell's map provided led Meriwether Lewis to explore the Marias River to determine the northern reaches of the Missouri River basin. The present French edition appeared in 1777 within Le Rouge's Atlas Ameriquain Septentrional. Le Rouge had first published an edition of the Mitchell map in 1756. The speed with which Le Rouge produced a full-size copy of Mitchell's original is an indication of how important the 1755 map was considered at the time. War in the region meant that consistent reliable cartographic intelligence was vital. Both the English and French versions went through a number of subsequent editions well into the 1770s. Mitchell's map went on to become the primary political treaty map in American history. Regarded by many authorities as the most important map in the history of American cartography twenty-one variant states and editions of the map appeared between 1755 and 1781. McCorkle 777.15; Ristow A La Carte p. 112; Tooley p 124; Moreland & Bannister p. 171-2.; Cf. E. and D.S. Berkeley Dr. John Mitchell the Man who made the Map Chapel Hill 1974 chapters 12 and 13; Richard W. Stephenson "Table for identifying variant editions and impressions of John Mitchell's map" p.110 in A la Carte Selected Papers on Maps and Atlases Washington 1972. Le Rouge unknown books

Donald Heald Rare Books · États-Unis27 500,00 $US≈ 23 267,75 €

[AFRICAN-AMERICANA -- SLAVERY]. MITCHELL, W[illiam] MBiblio.com

The Under-Ground Railroad. . . .

186064001London UK: William Tweedie 337 Strand 1860. Small 4to. 5.25 x 7.5 in. xv 1 3-172 xi 1 pp. Woodcut-engraved frontisp. of the author still preserving tissue guard. Publisherâ€™s ribbed plum-coloured cloth dark maroon coloured title label & price of 1 shilling 6 pence mounted front cover very minor chipping head & foot of spine slight fraying title label stamping dimmed and minor bumping to a couple corners still a VG copy w/ London UK booksellerâ€™s label partially removed at gutter margin front pastedown. First edition first printing of the first book wholly devoted to the Underground Railroad published only in England and by an African-American/Native-American author. Mitchell was a pivotal figure in the Underground Railroad who also aided the escaped slave â€œElizaâ€ whose escape over the Ohio River ice inspired the key dramatic moment in Harriet Beecher Stoweâ€™s pivotal Uncle Tomâ€™s Cabin. â€œElizaâ€ was sheltered originally in the network by noted abolitionist John Rankin passed on to Mitchell who then subsequently ensured her safe passage along the network overseen by Levi Coffin 1798-1877. Ironically the passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act which criminalized those aiding in the Underground Railroad to free slaves with fines of $ 1000 and six months imprisonment fueled resistance and forced Mitchell to publish this seminal work in Great Britain rather than the U.S. As a freeborn orphan Black in North Carolina Mitchell was forced into apprenticeship with a North Carolina plantation owner where he witnessed the deprivations of slavery and became inspired to aid African-American slaves to escape to Canada. From 1842-1855 he helped over 1300 slaves reach Canada from his Washington Court House Fayette County Ohio way station. This memoir recounts many anecdotes of the formerly enslaved including: one enslaved woman who died from frostbite while protecting her three children and a former slave John Mason brought Mitchell in just 19 months of that 13 year span â€œ265 human beings whom he had been instrumental in redeeming from slavery.â€ Mitchell further recounts Masonâ€™s recapture in Kentucky and later escape from New Orleans to Canada. Mitchell estimates in his book that 60000 enslaved peoples escaped into Canada on the Underground Railroad modern estimates range from 40000 to 100000. At the end of the 1850â€™s he moved to Toronto and began serving as a minister to African-American Baptist Free Mission congregations largely composed of freed slaves and the final section details the lives of these Canadian Black immigrants. In the final appendix he urgently pleads for a boycott of Southern cotton by Great Britain attempting to overcome resistance to the economic impact and hardship it would have on British cotton mills and related industries. Mitchell c. 1826-c.1879 was encouraged to write this historic work by W.H. Bonner A British abolitionist and had toured Britain in 1860 with William Howard Day and British abolitionist George Thompson to oppose the condition of slavery before the outbreak of the Civil War. This work is quite scarce with only 2 copies at auction in the last 50 years and both those appear to have been the 2nd edition which removed the hyphen in â€œUnder-Groundâ€ extended the title and a couple other revisions. William Tweedie, 337, Strand, hardcover

Zephyr Used & Rare Books · États-Unis25 000,00 $US≈ 21 152,50 €

Armstrong, Neil; Buzz Aldrin; Charles Conrad, Jr; Alan L Bean; Alan Shepard; Edgar Mitchell; Dave Scott; Jim Irwin; John Young;Biblio.com

Apollo Moonwalkers Complete Collection of Signed Photographs.

145375Complete set of 12 photographs of the Apollo Moonwalkers. Set of 12 photographs all of which are official NASA lithographs with the exception of the Alan Shepard photo. Each is individually signed in ink or felt tip as follows "Neil Armstrong" "We Came in Peace Buzz Aldrin Apollo XI" "Charles Conrad Jr." "Alan L. Bean" "Alan Shepard" "Best wishes Edgar Mitchell Apollo 14" "Dave Scott" "Jim Irwin" "John Young" "Charlie Duke Apollo 16" "Jack Schmitt" and "Gene Cernan Apollo XVII." In overall near fine to fine condition with a PSA label affixed to the Shepard photo light bumping to the bottom left corner of the Bean and Scott photos and very light creasing to the top right corner of the Young photo. Each photograph measures 10 inches by 8 inches. A rare collection as most photographs were inscribed not just signed by the astronauts. The Apollo program also known as Project Apollo was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. First conceived during Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" by the end of the 1960s which he proposed in an address to Congress on May 25 1961. A total of twelve astronauts had the opportunity to walk on the Moon between 1969 and 1972 becoming the first and only humans to set foot on another celestial body and marking a significant milestone in the advancement of our understanding of the universe. unknown

Raptis Rare Books · États-Unis25 000,00 $US≈ 21 152,50 €

Gibbon, Lewis Grassic [James Leslie Mitchell]Biblio.com

A Scots Quair Trilogy. Including: Sunset Song Cloud Howe and Grey Granite.

Raptis Rare Books · États-Unis25 000,00 $US≈ 21 152,50 €

MITCHELL, Margaret (her copy).Biblio.com

A Latin-English Dictionary for the Use of Junior Students.

1882176004Boston: Ginn Heath & Co. 1882. A glimpse into Mitchell's family life and thwarted education A resonant literary artefact from a formative period of Mitchell's life: her family's copy of a dictionary used in her early days at Smith College and inscribed by her upon enrolment. A gift from her father a prominent Atlanta lawyer and historian it is inscribed by both generations on the front pastedown: "Margaret Mitchell Smith College Sept. 24 1918" and above her father's inscription from his own university days: "Eugene Muse Mitchell University of Georgia December 15 1882". Both father and daughter have practised their signatures elsewhere in the volume. It was Mitchell's suffragist mother May Belle Stephens Mitchell who encouraged her to attend Smith the prestigious female liberal arts school; she wanted her daughter to be educated as preparation for life's vagaries. May Belle loomed large as a figure of admiration and influence in Mitchell's early years but she did not live to witness the fruits of her daughter's schooling and the literary success of Gone with the Wind. In 1919 she died of influenza. This and the death of Mitchell's fiancé in action during the First World War prompted Mitchell to abandon her studies after her freshman year. She left Massachusetts and returned to the South to assume a role in her family's household supporting her father and stepping into her mother's role of a society hostess. 2 works in 1 octavo 188 x 140 mm presumably issued thus. Early 20th-century black textured coated cloth cloth labels lettered in manuscript. Housed in a custom green half morocco slipcase. Annotations to rear blank and throughout in an unidentified hand. Spines ends worn repair to covers inner hinges strengthened with linen spine labels toned and lifting slightly couple of small damp stains to edges loss to lower outer corner of first title page small tear to pp. 246-7 in second work contents toned. hardcover

Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni15 000,00 £GB≈ 17 127,00 €

Mitchell, MargaretBiblio.com

Gone With the Wind.

1936136276New York: The Macmillan Company 1936. First edition of Margaret Mitchell's masterpiece which remains one of the fastest selling novels in the history of American publishing with 50000 copies sold in a single day. Octavo original cloth. First printing with â€œPublished May 1936â€ on the copyright page and no mention of other printings. Association copy signed by eleven members of David O. Selznick's epic American 1939 film adaptation on the front pastedown and front free endpaper with nine adding the names of the characters they portrayed "Evelyn Keyes 'Suellen' O'Hara" "Mickey Kuhn 'Beau Wilkes age 7 years'" "Marcella Martin Cathleen Calvert" "Ann Rutherford 'Careen' O'Hara'" Rand Brooks Charles Hamilton" "William Bakewell 'A Mounted Officer'" "Greg Griese 'Baby Beau & Baby Bonnie'" "Fred Crane 'Brent Tarleton'" "Patrick Curtis 'Baby Beau'" "Frank Junior Coghlan The collapsing Southern soldier" and "Cammie King 'Bonnie Blue Butler'". The signatures were obtained by Mr. Tatnall Brown on the occasion of the film's March 10 1961 gala "Anniversary Premiere" at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta commemorating the centennial of the start of the Civil War as well as marking the 25th anniversary of the publication of the book. The Loew's Grand was the venue famous for the original December 19 1939 world premiere. Very good in a very good completely unrestored first issue dust jacket with Gone with the Wind listed in second column of booklist on back panel and the $3.00 cost on front flap. Eicher 730. With Brown's bookplate to the pastedown. Laid in is a small stiff paper card with an image of Gone With the Wind; signed by Margaret Mitchell "Thank you for your letter. See 2 and 3 Margaret Mitchell Marsh." Additionally laid in is a post card with a portrait of Vivien Leigh from The Selznick Studio signed by her an original program from the film and a small booklet "Margaret Mitchell and Her Novel Gone With the Wind" New York: Macmillan 1936. Housed in a custom clamshell box. A unique example. â€œMitchellâ€™s sweeping rendition of a South torn apart by civil warâ€¦ has become national mythologyâ€ New York Public Libraryâ€™s Books of the Century 111.Â â€œThis is beyond doubt one of the most remarkable first novels produced by an American writer. It is also one of the bestâ€¦ It has been a long while since the American public has been offered such a bounteous feast of excellent story-tellingâ€ New York Times Book Review 1936. Said to be the fastest selling novel in the history of American publishing 50000 copies in a single dayÂ Gone with the Wind won Mitchell the Pulitzer Prize.Â The Macmillan Company hardcover

Raptis Rare Books · États-Unis18 500,00 $US≈ 15 652,85 €

MITCHELL, John (1711-1768). - Georges Louis LE ROUGE (1712-1790)Biblio.com

Amerique septentrionale avec les Routes Distances en miles Villages et Etablissements François et Anglois. Par le Docteur Mitchel Traduit de l'Anglois . Corigee en 1776 par M. Hawkins.

177726040Paris: Le Rouge 1777. Engraved map hand-coloured in outline on 8 sheets individual sheets: 27 1/4 x 21 inches if joined would form a single large sheet 59 x 79 inches with large allegorical cartouche and inset map of Hudson's Bay and Labrador. Good condition small repaired tear. Housed in a red morocco backed box. A fine example of a French edition of Mitchell's monumental mapping of Colonial America a scarce issue published during the American Revolution. "John Mitchell was not a mapmaker by profession rather he was a medical doctor natural philosopher and botanist of considerable merit. Yet his sole cartographic endeavor.was perhaps the greatest produced in the history of America" Degrees of Latitude. Mitchell's Map of the British and French Dominions in North America is widely regarded as the most important map in American History. Prepared on the eve of the French & Indian War it was the second large format map of North America printed by the British and included the best up to date information on the region. Over the next century it would play a significant role in the resolution of every significant boundary dispute involving the northern border of the then British Colonies and later the United States. It was also the map-of-record at the birth of the United States and continued in this role through several decades in the early life of the country. John Mitchell a respected British physician botanist chemist biologist and surveyor lived for a time in Virginia but returned to England in 1746 where he remained. Mitchell initially conceived of his map of North America as the best method of presenting to the British public in a single large format image of all the colonies the extent of the French threat to the British claims in North America. Mitchell completed his first draft of the map in 1750. However because he was limited to publicly available sources of information this initial effort was rather crude even in Mitchell's own opinion. But word of Mitchell's work spread and the Board of Trade and Plantations retained Mitchell to make a new map using the official manuscript and printed maps and reports in the Board's possession including maps by Fry and Jefferson Christopher Gist George Washington John Barnwell and others. The Board also instructed all the colonial governors to send detailed maps and boundary information for Mitchell's use. Mitchell's map was first published by Andrew Millar in 1755 the year before war broke out with the French. The map is decidedly pro-English in its interpretation of the various boundaries and geographical information depicted on the map as would be expected for what amounted to thinly veiled pre-war propaganda. In addition to the geographical detail shown on the map Mitchell included many annotations describing the extent of British and French settlements. He also submitted a report to the Board in 1752 listing the French encroachments and his ideas of ways to encourage British settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains as a means of combating French influence in the region. Mitchell's map shows the British Colonial claims of Virginia both Carolinas and Georgia extending beyond the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean. In the West Mitchell's treatment of the lower Missouri is a vast improvement over earlier maps. Regarding the source of the Missouri Mitchell noted that the Missouri river was reckoned to run westward to the Mountains of New Mexico as far as the Ohio does eastward reflecting his belief in symmetrical geography. Mitchell correctly shows the northern branch of the Missouri to be the main branch of the river although his estimate of the latitude of the river's source is inaccurate. Nonetheless the information Mitchell's map provided led Meriwether Lewis to explore the Marias River to determine the northern reaches of the Missouri River basin. The present French edition appeared in 1777 within Le Rouge's Atlas Ameriquain Septentrional. Le Rouge had first published an edition of the Mitchell map in 1756. The speed with which Le Rouge produced a full-size copy of Mitchell's original is an indication of how important the 1755 map was considered at the time. War in the region meant that consistent reliable cartographic intelligence was vital. Both the English and French versions went through a number of subsequent editions well into the 1770s. Mitchell's map went on to become the primary political treaty map in American history. Regarded by many authorities as the most important map in the history of American cartography twenty-one variant states and editions of the map appeared between 1755 and 1781. McCorkle 777.15; Ristow A La Carte p. 112; Tooley p 124; Moreland & Bannister p. 171-2.; Cf. E. and D.S. Berkeley Dr. John Mitchell the Man who made the Map Chapel Hill 1974 chapters 12 and 13; Richard W. Stephenson "Table for identifying variant editions and impressions of John Mitchell's map" p.110 in A la Carte Selected Papers on Maps and Atlases Washington 1972. Le Rouge unknown

Donald Heald Rare Books · États-Unis17 500,00 $US≈ 14 806,75 €

Mitchell MargaretABAA

Gone With the Wind.

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

Raptis Rare Books · États-Unis15 000,00 $US≈ 12 691,50 €

Mitchell margaret

Siècle

Langage

Ajouté

Sujets

Catalogues

Siècle

Langage

Ajouté

Sujets

Catalogues

Siècle

Langage

Ajouté

Sujets

Catalogues