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1936152265New 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 bound in full modern navy blue morocco with gilt titles in six compartments within raised bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels all edges gilt marbled endpapers. First printing with “Published May 1936†on the copyright page and no mention of other printings. In fine condition. “Mitchell’s sweeping rendition of a South torn apart by civil war… has become national mythology†New York Public Library’s Books of the Century 111. “This is beyond doubt one of the most remarkable first novels produced by an American writer. It is also one of the best… It has been a long while since the American public has been offered such a bounteous feast of excellent story-telling†New York Times Book Review 1936. Said to be the fastest selling novel in the history of American publishing 50000 copies in a single day Gone with the Wind won Mitchell the Pulitzer Prize. The Macmillan Company hardcover
183921386Londini: sumptibus Societatis i.e. English Historical Society 1839. First edition large paper copy printed for one of the Society's members John Mee Mathew Esq. with his name printed in red on the verso of the half-title; 6 volumes royal 8vo contemporary half green morocco gilt paneled spines t.e.g. with the gilt stamp on the upper covers of the Birmingham Law Society and their gilt supralibros on the back covers rubberstamps on the title pages and occasionally in the text; upper joint of volume I tender several others rubbed; all in all a good sound set. "After his marriage in 1836 Kemble appears to have resided in London for some time employing himself in literary work and specially in transcribing in the British Museum and in various collegiate and cathedral libraries the Anglo-Saxon charters afterwards printed in his Codex Diplomaticus.In his knowledge of Teutonic philology he was far ahead of any of his fellow-countrymen and was the recognised exponent of the investigations of Jacob Grimm and other German writers on the subject. With regard to the study of Anglo-Saxon Kemble had a more scientific as well as a more accurate knowledge of the language than any earlier scholar and a deeper insight into its relations to other branches of Teutonic speech. He used his knowledge chiefly in illustrating Anglo-Saxon literature and history writing in all his original work as a man of letters no less than as a scholar. In commenting on an early fable he notes its significance traces its development and examines the forms under which it appears at different times and in various countries. The publication of his collection of documents belonging to the Anglo-Saxon period may be said to have laid the foundation of our present knowledge of the institutions and customs of the English before the Norman conquest.His Codex Diplomaticus must remain the great original of all such undertakings and the pattern to be followed by all future editors of charters. Besides the exact knowledge of Anglo-Saxon and the skill in deciphering manuscripts displayed by this book it presents though so unobtrusively as to be almost likely to escape notice proofs of an amazing amount of knowledge and critical acumen. Every charter which offers ground for suspicion is marked with an asterisk. Kemble's work was always done with minute care and a charter that he has not marked as spurious may as a rule safely be accepted as genuine. Founded on the Codex Kemble's Saxons in England was until the appearance of Bishop Stubbs's Constitutional History in 1873 the best English treatise on the polity of our ancestors before the coming of the Normans" DNB. <br/><br/> sumptibus Societatis [i.e. English Historical Society] unknown books
183921386Londini: sumptibus Societatis i.e. English Historical Society 1839. First edition large paper copy printed for one of the Society's members John Mee Mathew Esq. with his name printed in red on the verso of the half-title; 6 volumes royal 8vo contemporary half green morocco gilt paneled spines t.e.g. with the gilt stamp on the upper covers of the Birmingham Law Society and their gilt supralibros on the back covers rubberstamps on the title pages and occasionally in the text; upper joint of volume I tender several others rubbed; all in all a good sound set. "After his marriage in 1836 Kemble appears to have resided in London for some time employing himself in literary work and specially in transcribing in the British Museum and in various collegiate and cathedral libraries the Anglo-Saxon charters afterwards printed in his Codex Diplomaticus.In his knowledge of Teutonic philology he was far ahead of any of his fellow-countrymen and was the recognised exponent of the investigations of Jacob Grimm and other German writers on the subject. With regard to the study of Anglo-Saxon Kemble had a more scientific as well as a more accurate knowledge of the language than any earlier scholar and a deeper insight into its relations to other branches of Teutonic speech. He used his knowledge chiefly in illustrating Anglo-Saxon literature and history writing in all his original work as a man of letters no less than as a scholar. In commenting on an early fable he notes its significance traces its development and examines the forms under which it appears at different times and in various countries. The publication of his collection of documents belonging to the Anglo-Saxon period may be said to have laid the foundation of our present knowledge of the institutions and customs of the English before the Norman conquest.His Codex Diplomaticus must remain the great original of all such undertakings and the pattern to be followed by all future editors of charters. Besides the exact knowledge of Anglo-Saxon and the skill in deciphering manuscripts displayed by this book it presents though so unobtrusively as to be almost likely to escape notice proofs of an amazing amount of knowledge and critical acumen. Every charter which offers ground for suspicion is marked with an asterisk. Kemble's work was always done with minute care and a charter that he has not marked as spurious may as a rule safely be accepted as genuine. Founded on the Codex Kemble's Saxons in England was until the appearance of Bishop Stubbs's Constitutional History in 1873 the best English treatise on the polity of our ancestors before the coming of the Normans" DNB. sumptibus Societatis [i.e. English Historical Society] unknown
18732603190020Mitchell Bros Company; Ottawa Il Chicago 1873. First Edition. Paperback. Good. An Industrial Agricultural Journal devoted to flour and feed millers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 52 volumes approximately 508 issues. Includes vols. 1-19 25-58. The first issues are relatively slim and have some wear to the wraps. Vols 6-13 are hardbound. A mostly complete run the 1902 volume is missing the second issue lacking 5 vols from 1892-1897. Oversized 38-40 cm. Most volumes have original publisher's blue wraps. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Clean unmarked pages. Some volumes bound in hardcover. The American Miller covers the advent of the industrial revolution and the electrification of the milling industry. A fascinating view into the development of American industry. Includes numerous photographs images diagrams etc. Many contemporary ads. A large format monthly journal on milling. Includes: 1-5 Individual issues; 6-13 Hardbound; 14-19 26-58. Also includes the 1930 Christmas greetings issue. <br> Please note: This is an incredibly rare and well preserved set. It is extremely heavy comprising 10 large boxes. Extra-shipping charges may apply. Mitchell Bros Company; Ottawa, Il, Chicago paperback
196886679A & C Black Publishers Ltd. ; Lewis. As New. 1968. Hardcover. 0853170711 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - - Corresponds to ISBN: 0853170711. 43 pages of text with 48 illustrations including 3 in color. Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonnee Complete Works A & C Black Publishers Ltd. ; Lewis hardcover
185564046Sydney N.D.1855. 1855. Hardcover. 8vo. hardcover. original papers bound in cloth. 31pp. Very good foxing heaviest on first 4 pages & last page. Ingleton bookplate on front pastedown. Ferguson 12666. From Ferguson: This satirical verse commentry on the Sydney personalities of the day was sent to various people by mail in January 1855. Three such copies in D.L bear a Sydney postmark with dates of 19 to Judge Therry 20 & 22 Jan 1855. Two such copies in M.L bear the postmark date 20 Jan. This original edition may be easily distinguished from later facsimiles by poorer paper no better than newsprint by occasional broken letters. Susspicion immediately fell on Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell Surveyor General as the most likely author although he denied any knowledge.Mitchell's daughter married J.F. Mann whose son G.V.F Mann in a letter to Miss Windeyer. 17 April 1924 in M.L. states "the satire 'Ichneumon' was written by Livingston Mitchell son of Sir Thos." . Sydney, N.D.[1855] hardcover
1838173536London: T. & W. Boone 1838. The deep tracks of his boat carriage quickly became their ribbon to follow to the south-west First edition of this illustrated account by the explorer who opened up the lush pastures of western Victoria to colonial settlement. His three daring expeditions added extensively to knowledge of Australia's inland waterways. This copy is from the collection of Jonathan Wantrup a leading bibliographer of Australiana with his book label on the front pastedowns. Appointed deputy surveyor-general of New South Wales in 1827 Mitchell 1792-1855 arrived in Sydney in September and began a six-year effort to produce a topographical map of the colony. His "Map of the Colony of New South Wales 1834 otherwise known as the 'map of the nineteen counties' has scarcely been equalled anywhere. It was perhaps Mitchell's greatest achievement. He determined too to extend his surveys outside the nineteen counties and though there are other reasons for his exploratory expeditions this was a major factor" ODNB. Mitchell's first expedition begun in late 1831 while his map was still in progress "explored between the Nammoi and the Gwydir and crossed the latter to strike the Barwon but there was no north-west river; all streams were clearly tributaries of the Darling. The murder by Aborigines of two of his party as they were bringing up provisions made a return to the settled colony imperative" ODNB and his party reached Sydney in February 1832. His second expedition undertaken three years later charted the course of the Darling to the point where it turned south establishing the likely region where it met the Murray. "Mitchell's third and most significant journey was undertaken ostensibly to connect the Murray with the Darling but also to explore the Murray and perhaps the country south of it. The expedition left Sydney in March 1836 and moved down the Lachlan. It was impossible to cross to the Darling so Mitchell proceeded to the Murrumbidgee and into the Murray following it down to what was thought to be the Darling junction. He traced the Darling upstream only sufficiently far to satisfy himself that it was in fact that river. Some 30 miles below the Goulburn river junction he turned off south-west. The region he then opened up he named Australia Felix now the western district of Victoria which certainly forms one of the richest tracts in Australia. At the Murray he found the country on the eve of being taken up by graziers and the deep tracks of his boat carriage quickly became their ribbon to follow to the south-west. This journey which lasted over seven months thus added greatly to the knowledge of a very fertile region of Australia" ODNB. Copies in the original cloth are nearly always found either rebacked or recased and this is a better example than most. 2 vols octavo. Frontispieces Vol. I hand-coloured 44 plates 3 hand-coloured 1 folding 5 maps and plans 3 hand-coloured 2 folding large folding map at rear with hand colouring vignette title pages illustrations and tables in text; 16 pages of publisher's advertisements at end of Vol. II. Original green vertically combed cloth recased spines lettered in gilt with gilt vignettes of kangaroos emus and aboriginal weapons boards decoratively blocked in blind yellow coated endpapers edges untrimmed binder's ticket of Remnant & Edmonds on front pastedown of Vol. I. Cloth clean light cockling and creasing small split at head of spine of Vol. II some plates foxed as usual large folding map with small splits at folds and stub rear repaired on verso: a very good set. Ferguson 2553; Hill 1165; Wantrup 124a. hardcover
1862362452Philadelphia: S.A. Mitchell 1862. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Small folio unpaginated. Original publisher’s half calf and gilt-lettered pebbled cloth binding. A very good copy with wear to the leather the title page and list of maps foxed and with occasional mild soiling to the margins of plates but strong joints and hinges with an attractive 19th Century American bookplate. A desirable example of this Civil War-era atlas. Excellent original hand-coloring for all maps. This copy is complete with all 80 maps plus two additional maps not called for: “New Hampshire and Vermont†and “County Map of Massachusetts Connecticut and Rhode Island.†Among the more notable American maps are those detailing Texas California New Orleans the Indian Territory of future Oklahoma and plans of Baltimore and Washington DC. The atlas also has three double-page maps. A beautiful example of a mid-19th Century American atlas. S.A. Mitchell hardcover
1867212358Washington 1867. unbound. Exceedingly rare and historically important two-page letter 10 x 8 inches Washington January 22 1867. Written on lined paper with "House Reps Confidential" at the top. In this correspondence Ashley writes to W.G. Brownlow the Governor of Tennessee soliciting witnesses who will testify against President Andrew Johnson at his impeachment trial. In part: ".give me the names at once of all witnesses who can sustain any of the charges preferred against the President.let this be done promptly.If the Union men are earnest let them come forward with the facts.I hope your legislature will promptly enfranchise the loyal men of color and this same Tennessee from the fate of Maryland." Several folds with light browning and foxing; small tear along one of the folds. Very good- condition.<br/><br/> Ashley was the democratic congressman and abolitionist who supervised the underground railroad and who drew the bill abolishing slavery the first proposition to amend the constitution. Through his hatred for Republican Andrew Johnson Ashley solicited charges and then introduced the Articles of Impeachment in 1867.<br/><br/> unknown books
1867212358Washington 1867. unbound. Exceedingly rare and historically important two-page letter 10 x 8 inches Washington January 22 1867. Written on lined paper with "House Reps Confidential" at the top. In this correspondence Ashley writes to W.G. Brownlow the Governor of Tennessee soliciting witnesses who will testify against President Andrew Johnson at his impeachment trial. In part: ".give me the names at once of all witnesses who can sustain any of the charges preferred against the President.let this be done promptly.If the Union men are earnest let them come forward with the facts.I hope your legislature will promptly enfranchise the loyal men of color and this same Tennessee from the fate of Maryland." Several folds with light browning and foxing; small tear along one of the folds. Very good- condition.<br/> <br/> Ashley was the democratic congressman and abolitionist who supervised the underground railroad and who drew the bill abolishing slavery the first proposition to amend the constitution. Through his hatred for Republican Andrew Johnson Ashley solicited charges and then introduced the Articles of Impeachment in 1867.<br/> <br/> unknown
1939002577Various: By the authors 1939. First Edition. Very good. Comprised of three letters and a manuscript memoir the archive covered three continents and intertwined the lives of royals reformers and exiles. Nina Cornelia Mitchell 1854 - 1958 was an activist and an ardent relief worker in Europe during and after the First World War. She was also the first cousin of author and artist Miss Violet nee Serena Catherine Dandridge with whom she lived in the historic "Rosebrake" mansion in Shepherdstown West Virginia after her return to the United States. Paul Underwood Kellogg 1879 - 1958 was a social reformer journalist and co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union. He was the editor of "Survey" magazine which he had managed to turn into the country's leading social work journal in a very short period of time. Mitchell had been visiting her friends - Prince Aleksandr Eristov Georgian Lieutenant-Genaral and his wife who were living in exile in Paris when she met Count Piotr Vassilievich Hendrikov former Governor of the Orel Province and brother of Countess Anastasiia Hendrikova Lady of Honor to Empress Aleksandra Feodorovna. He gave Nina a memoir written first in Russian and then in French to translate and write into English. Through his sister's stories and his personal visits to the Romanov family Hendrikov was intimately familiar with the sovereigns' lives and suffered through their assasinations which included his sister's. The memoir emotional and painful to read revealed some lesser known facts about Nicholas' family. Hendrikov stated that although Aleksandra was thought to be cold and aloof she was in reality just profoundly shy. He also gave examples of the Emperor's love and compassion for his people including an instance when having been presented with new war equipment for the infantry he feared it would be too heavy for his soldiers so he strapped it on and walked 15 kilometers to test it. The narrative followed the family's daily life before and after their arrests their work their devotion to each other the births of the children and their coping with son Aleksei Nikolaevich' terrible disease. Later on Hendrikov described Nicholas' abdication the reaction of the people the exile and the terrible treatment the family received from their guards his meetings with representatives of Duma and finally their murders together with those of the closest to them people court and servants who had followed them through the last year of their lives. In her first letter to Kellogg Mitchell gave the prehistory of the memoir asked him to read it and possibly assist with finding a publisher for it mentioned her better understanding of the situation in Russia and inquired about getting a subscription to the "Survey" for her friend Helen Pendleton. In his response Kellogg promised to read the papers told Mitchell he would love to hear about her work in Europe and confirmed Helen Pendleton's subscription to his magazine. In Nina's second and last letter she stated she would await the editor's criticism of the memoir talked about her friends the Eristovs and invited the Kelloggs to visit her in the "City of the Shepherds in the Valley of the Daugther of the Stars." - Two ALS signed by Nina Cornelia Mitchell dated July 18 1939 and August 14 1939; 6 1/2 x 5 and 7 x 5 1/2; pp. 12 and 4 respectively; off-white textured stock black ink and red pencil; light age-toning; two rust spots from removed paper clips; very good condition. - Typed letter by Paul Kellogg dated July 19 1939; 11 x 8 1/2; single sheet text to recto only; small handwritten note in pencil; a few nicks and chips to edges; good condition. - Manuscript memoir in two parts; 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 and 9 3/4 x 8 1/4; loose sheets pp. 13 and 16 respectively; text to recto only; the first part a bit fragile with several small nicks to corners; overall in very good condition. By the authors unknown books
1843WRCAM7742Philadelphia 1843. Two colored folding maps 33 1/2 x 24 inches and 34 3/4 x 25 1/2 inches. In original elaborately gilt pictorial morocco brass clasp intact. Small tear in second map i.e. the chart. Otherwise fine and bright. In a half morocco box. The national map shows the United States west to the Indian Territory west of Missouri including the eastern part of Texas north through most of Maine and with a portion of Canada and south through most of Florida. There are insets of the portions of Maine and Florida which are excluded from the larger image. The second map contains a large center statistical chart surrounded by thirty- two inset maps of various major American cities and their environs or states. This map is dated 1842 at the bottom and is described in Graff as a broadside noting that the map listed by Phillips was issued in 1843. Streeter lists the two maps together as in the present copy. His copy sold to parties unknown for $40 in 1969. PHILLIPS MAPS p.896. STREETER SALE 3861. GRAFF 2838. SERVIES 2872. unknown books
1864100375Folio original cloth with leather spine and corners embossed gilt title on front cover 49 colored maps. Rubbing and fading to binding gilt dull removed label from front coverwear to extremities small stain aaffecting preliminaries occassional margin soiling and a few margin tears; U.S. map has split at the bottom of fold some minor toning but contents generally bright and clean. This atlas contains 49 colored maps twenty-six relate to the U.S. Only for maps are double page. Maps of Texas California and South America are particularly attractive. S. Augustus Mitchell, hardcover books
1855231635<p>Cowperthwait Desilver & Butler 1855. Hardcover. Good. Rebound in green cloth boards. 2 plates are missing #18 North Carolina and #19 South Carolina. All other plates are included. The following plates have old tape applied to a backside edge none are attached to the map side most are simple small strips with none being more than 4 inches in length and most being 1 or 2 inches in length. #6 Eastern side of double sheet map of USA #10 Connecticut #20 Georgia #44 Chili La Playa and Uruguay #45 and #46 Double sheet map of Europe #53 Germany #71 China #73 Egypt. The applied tape is either unseen or only lightly seen on the map sides. The Georgia map photo can be viewed as an example. Colors are bright and clear. No marks or notations. Folio. Ships insured with signature confirmation to domestic US customers.</p> Cowperthwait, Desilver and Butler hardcover
184631381Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell 1846. 16mo. 46pp. plus large folding map 25 x 34 1/4 inches with full period color. Original blindstamped and gilt purple morocco with original clasp<br/> <br/> Second edition after the first of 1843 of this rare pocket map of North America showing the United States west to Texas Indian Territory and Dakota Territory i.e. 19° longitude west of Washington D.C.<br/> <br/> The map J.H. Young's "Mitchell's National Map of the American Republic or the United States of North America" is revised and updated from the 1843 version most notably by the addition of the newly created Territory of Iowa. The inset map of Texas is new to this 1846 edition and dates from the first year of statehood still showing Texas with its Republic boundaries. The Oregon inset is also new and shows the Oregon border going north into Canada i.e. before the 1846 treaty boundaries. There are also two population tables and the text lists the major railroad steamboat and stage routes all the way west to Iowa Wisconsin and Missouri. The four insets are: "Map of the North-Eastern boundary of the United States According to the Treaty of 1842" "Map of the Southern part of Florida" "Map of Oregon Territory" and "Map of the State of Texas." These four insets take the place of the thirty-two small inset maps of cities and towns from the 1843 version of the map. Rumsey lists only the wall map version of this 1846 map. OCLC locates eight copies of this important pocket map.<br/> <br/> OCLC 228693421 8551053; Ristow p.310; Rumsey 3796 ref. S. Augustus Mitchell unknown
1939002577<p>Various: By the authors 1939. First Edition. Very good. Comprised of three letters and a manuscript memoir the archive covered three continents and intertwined the lives of royals reformers and exiles. Nina Cornelia Mitchell 1854 - 1958 was an activist and an ardent relief worker in Europe during and after the First World War. She was also the first cousin of author and artist Miss Violet nee Serena Catherine Dandridge with whom she lived in the historic "Rosebrake" mansion in Shepherdstown West Virginia after her return to the United States. Paul Underwood Kellogg 1879 - 1958 was a social reformer journalist and co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union. He was the editor of "Survey" magazine which he had managed to turn into the country's leading social work journal in a very short period of time. Mitchell had been visiting her friends - Prince Aleksandr Eristov Georgian Lieutenant-Genaral and his wife who were living in exile in Paris when she met Count Piotr Vassilievich Hendrikov former Governor of the Orel Province and brother of Countess Anastasiia Hendrikova Lady of Honor to Empress Aleksandra Feodorovna. He gave Nina a memoir written first in Russian and then in French to translate and write into English. Through his sister's stories and his personal visits to the Romanov family Hendrikov was intimately familiar with the sovereigns' lives and suffered through their assasinations which included his sister's. The memoir emotional and painful to read revealed some lesser known facts about Nicholas' family. Hendrikov stated that although Aleksandra was thought to be cold and aloof she was in reality just profoundly shy. He also gave examples of the Emperor's love and compassion for his people including an instance when having been presented with new war equipment for the infantry he feared it would be too heavy for his soldiers so he strapped it on and walked 15 kilometers to test it. The narrative followed the family's daily life before and after their arrests their work their devotion to each other the births of the children and their coping with son Aleksei Nikolaevich' terrible disease. Later on Hendrikov described Nicholas' abdication the reaction of the people the exile and the terrible treatment the family received from their guards his meetings with representatives of Duma and finally their murders together with those of the closest to them people court and servants who had followed them through the last year of their lives. In her first letter to Kellogg Mitchell gave the prehistory of the memoir asked him to read it and possibly assist with finding a publisher for it mentioned her better understanding of the situation in Russia and inquired about getting a subscription to the "Survey" for her friend Helen Pendleton. In his response Kellogg promised to read the papers told Mitchell he would love to hear about her work in Europe and confirmed Helen Pendleton's subscription to his magazine. In Nina's second and last letter she stated she would await the editor's criticism of the memoir talked about her friends the Eristovs and invited the Kelloggs to visit her in the "City of the Shepherds in the Valley of the Daugther of the Stars."- Two ALS signed by Nina Cornelia Mitchell dated July 18 1939 and August 14 1939; 6 1/2 x 5 and 7 x 5 1/2; pp. 12 and 4 respectively; off-white textured stock black ink and red pencil; light age-toning; two rust spots from removed paper clips; very good condition.- Typed letter by Paul Kellogg dated July 19 1939; 11 x 8 1/2; single sheet text to recto only; small handwritten note in pencil; a few nicks and chips to edges; good condition.- Manuscript memoir in two parts; 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 and 9 3/4 x 8 1/4; loose sheets pp. 13 and 16 respectively; text to recto only; the first part a bit fragile with several small nicks to corners; overall in very good condition.</p> By the authors
1864100375Folio original cloth with leather spine and corners embossed gilt title on front cover 49 colored maps. Rubbing and fading to binding gilt dull removed label from front coverwear to extremities small stain aaffecting preliminaries occassional margin soiling and a few margin tears; U.S. map has split at the bottom of fold some minor toning but contents generally bright and clean. This atlas contains 49 colored maps twenty-six relate to the U.S. Only for maps are double page. Maps of Texas California and South America are particularly attractive. S. Augustus Mitchell, hardcover
8230P., Baillière, 1887, un volume in 8 relié en pleine toile bleue marine (reliure de l'époque), 2 portraits, 193pp. (comprenant la reproduction d'une lettre manuscrite de Claude Bernard), (1)
1941feb81582<p>1941: First Icelandic Edition of Gone with the Wind</p><p>Ã hverfanda hveli</p><p>Used. Please contact me first before purchase to confirm availability.</p> Víkingsútgáfan
1984244h1762USA: Krause Publications Inc. Good. 1984. Limited Edition. Paperback. 0873410475 . William E. Simon's special limited edition presentation copy. Signed by both authors upon presentation page and hand-numbered copy No. 9 of only 105 issued. Upon the blank page opposite the title page Neil Shafer has personally signed and incribed this copy to William E. Simon. "Simon1927-2000 served as Secretary of the Treasury from 1974-1977. Subsequently he became a pioneer of the leveraged buyout LBO. An October 2007 Washington Post article described him as 'a legendary architect of the modern conservative movement.'" - Wikipedia. Presentation page features a physical example of a Long Branch NJ $1.00 Scrip issue of May 1 1934 and information about its history. Unmarked with average wear. Binding sound. A very special copy of this superlative reference.; 4to; Signed by All Authors . Krause Publications Inc. paperback
1937122606Atlanta 1937. unbound. 1 page 11 x 7.25 inches Atlanta June 29 1937. Rare letter signed "Margaret Mitchell Marsh" declining an invitation to a party because it conflicts with her wedding anniversary in full: "Dear Miss Hall: Sue Myrick forwarded to me your invitation and John and I appreciate it so very much. I know the party will be lots of fun and I only wish we could come but Sunday is our wedding anniversary and we have already made plans to spend it with friends. I admit that the temptation to break this engagement is strong because I liked Milledgeville so much when I was there at the Press meeting. And also I would love to attend your party as Prissy. That is the only role my size would warrant. The costume would be cheap too --just a croker sack and ten cents' worth of shoe polish. We do appreciate your invitation so much and I shall look forward to Sue's description of the party." Two horizontal folds and slight foxing; very good condition.<br/> <br/> unknown
193674052New York: Macmillan 1936. First edition of the author's classic novel. First printing with "Published May 1936" on the copyright page and no mention of other printings. Octavo bound in full morocco gilt titles and tooling to the spine gilt ruled to the front and rear panels marbled endpapers. In fine condition. 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. Macmillan unknown books
424591897-1988 American Writer Novelist and Translator on a variety of subjects starting by telling him that her husband had "gone North for an advertising convention and I decided to come home because we never like to have both of us out of town at the same time when Father's health is so precarious. Time and again I sat down to write to you but I have been so rushed and weary of spirit that I did not wish to inflict a dull letter upon you. When one member of a famiyl is seriously ill over a long period the world contracts for the rest. so my life during the last year has been spent between hospital Red Cross and home. I went to Smith for my college reunion and for visits with friends in Boston and New York. It did me a world of good only it 'onsettled me in my mind' and made me yearn to go on visiting and traveling. But I just can't get away. Father seems so much weaker. When we have company we put them up at the Biltmore which is the closest hotel to us. I wish you would think over this invitation and understand that when you stay at the Biltmore you are our guests. I wondered how you were doing. I wanted to know about the play. I never did know whether you finished it. and try it out on the Lunts. On of their good friends a well known author told me recently that the Lunts had a never-ending problem of finding the right kind of play. I have always felt that your play would be marvelous for them. the tone of the play was so right as it dealt with the completely normal emotions of adults. In these days there are not too many books or plays about middle aged men and women with almost grown children. The few I know about deal somewhat unhealthily with rather devious minds whereas you are able to portray mature emotions frankly passionate if one must come out flatfootedly and frankly clean. I never like to put my oar in on someone else's business so if the following suggestion does not appeal to you just say no and no harm will be done. I do not claim to know the Lunts intimately. I have seen them perhaps four times and they have had dinner with us. if you'd like me to write them about the play and ask them if they'd like to see it I'd be happy indeed to do this. I wish it were possible for you to have a year off in which to work at the job you are really fitted for. When I was in New York I saw my friend Lois Cole at the Macmillan Company. She had the only news of Herschel any of us have had since he went to Columbia South America. Several months ago she had a letter. asking her to send him a number of books which were collections of American short stories. He wishes to select from all the volumes enough short stories to make one volume and translate them into Spanish - perhaps like the O'Brien or O'Henry collections. I had dinner with the Dowdeys in New York and they asked if I had seen you and lamented that Clifford was having such a time with his eyes. Clifford is desperately trying to get into the army bad eyes or no but he is half through a novel and feels that he should finish it before enlisting. He told me that Kenneth Littauer had been in the air force for a number of months and was now at some field in Mississippi. He is of course over age for flying so I suppose he is doing ground service. Marjorie Rawlings and Norton Baskin were here a month or so ago. Marjorie was speaking as one of a series of lectures for the benefit of the Red Cross. Vincent Sheean was another speaker. We had the Baskins and Sheean for a quite supper in between a cocktail party and Mr Sheean's lecture. The brief meeting showed him an attractive and interesting person. He's now in the army. you'd find him entertaining. People in New York and Boston have at last gotten the idea that we are in a war. Both cities are dim and are crowded with uniforms of every service. It's queer to see Australian airmen on the streets and soldiers in Dutch and Norwegian uniforms and I saw uniforms belonging to God know what country. I am sure entire crews of German submarines could parade on Fifth Avenue and no one would pay them any mind and they would doubtless think them part of the Coast Guard. In connection with Civilian Defense let me present to you Mr and Mrs John R. Marsh respectively Sector Warden and Deputy Sector Warden. John has five blocks under his care and it would be just my luck to have an air raid tonight when he is out of town and I am in charge. It is incredible how much time and paper work is involved in Civilian Defence and how much confusion and worry. Just about the time you get a warden broken in the army snatches him off.I think we will end up by having Civilian Defence completely operated by women." and ends by repeating her invitation for them to visit 3 sides 4to. Margaret Mitchell headed paper Atlanta Georgia 24th June Mitchell wrote only one novel published during her lifetime the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind for which she won the National Book Award for Fiction for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. Long after her death a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager titled Lost Laysen were published. A collection of newspaper articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form. Mitchell was struck and killed by a speeding drunk driver in 1949. Granberry became an English professor at Rollins College in 1933. Granberry was a reviewer for The New York Sun of Gone with the Wind which he compared favourably to War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Later Granberry and his wife Mabel became friends with Mitchell. In 1932 Granberry won the O. Henry Award for Best Short Short Story. Alfred LUNT 1892-1977 was an American actor and director best known for his long stage partnership with his wife Lynn FONTANNE 1887-1983 from the 1920s to 1960 co-starring in Broadway and West End productions. Col. Kenneth Proctor LITTAUER 1894-1968 served as senior intelligence officer with the 8th Air Force in England and helped to plan the D-Day bombings. Clfford DOWDEY 1904-1979 was an American writer of fiction and nonfiction dealing with the American South Virginia and especially the Civil War era. Herschell BRICKELL 1889-1952was a columnist and editor and US State Department official in Colombia. Norton BASKIN 1901-1997 was an American Actor and his wife Marjorie Kinnan RAWLINGS 1896-1953 was an American writer who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work The Yearling about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939. Vincent SHEEAN 1899-1975 was an American journalist and novelist. John R. Marsh was Mitchell's second husband. Provenance: From the Estate of Edwin Granberry. unknown
1867770751867. MITCHELL S. Weir. The Wonderful Stories of Fuz-Buz the Fly and Mother Grabem the Spider. Large 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. Illustrated. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. 1867. First edition. One of 170 large paper copies. BAL 14065. Peter Parley to Penrod 145. Some light wear to extremities but a very good or better copy of his rare First Book. The H. Bradley Martin copy. unknown
193643084New York: Macmillan 1936. First edition of the author's classic novel. First printing with "Published May 1936" on the copyright page and no mention of other printings. Octavo bound in full morocco gilt titles to the spine gilt ruled to the front and rear panels marbled endpapers all edges gilt. In fine condition. 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. Macmillan unknown books
