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198315278JAustin: Humanities Research Center/University of Texas 1983. First Edition. Signed by Cammie King 1934-2010 who played Clark Gable’s and Vivien Leigh’s daughter Bonnie Blue Butler in the 1939 film classic produced by David O.Selznick. She has signed the book with both names. Cammie King ‘Bonnie Blue Butlerâ€. King was also the voice the character Faline in the Walt Disney’s 1942 animated film classic Bambi and was the step daughter of Dr. Herbert Kalmus who created the stunning color film process Technicolor which was used to film Gone With the Wind. Extensive finely printed 121 page catalogue book of the landmark exhibition of Gone With the Wind material existing in the David O. Selznick Archives. Contains numerous illustrations of important production material including some of the original costume designs reproduced in color. Most of the illustrations have never been reproduced before. Among some of the important documents reproduced are an original Margaret Mitchell letter to Selznick a fascinating memo to Selznick from F. Scott Fitzgerald discussing the character Melanie plus memos to and from Selznick establishing the production etc. Paperbound. Fine. Scarce. Humanities Research Center/University of Texas unknown
1837264871837. ILLINOIS. MITCHELL Samuel A. Illinois in 1837; A Sketch Descriptive of the Situation Boundaries Face of the Country Prominent Districts Prairies Rivers Minerals Animals Agricultural Productions Public Lands Plans of Internal Improvement Manufactures &c. of the State of Illinois; Also Suggestions to Emigrants Sketches of the Counties Cities and Principal Towns in the State: Together With a Letter on the Cultivation of the Prairies by the Hon. H.L. Ellsworth. To Which Are Annexed the Letters from a Rambler in the West. Phila. 1837. 1st ed 2nd issue with "animals" spelled correctly on the title page. Large folding map in color. 143pp. plus 5pp. advts. Orig. printed boards; cloth spine slightly worn else a very good copy. The map is in particularly fine condition. Howes M-689. unknown
18343245Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell 1834. Full period color 17 x 20 1/2 inches folding into gilt-stamped brown leather covers. Statistical table laid down on inside front cover. Five insets see below. Minor repairs. This is the second pocket map edition of D. H. Vance's map of New York State with the imprint of S. Augustus Mitchell. Mitchell had purchased the plate from Anthony Finley in 1831 removed Vance's name added a new border and included it in his edition of the A New American Atlas 1831. The map was first issued as a pocket map by Mitchell in 1832. With the 1832 edition Mitchell replaced the inset "Profile of the Erie Canal" with four insets: "Vicinity of Albany" "Vicinity of New York" "Vicinity of the Falls of Niagara" and "Vicinity of Rochester." With this 1834 edition the statistical table at right was replaced by an inset "Map of the Hudson River." Numerous new towns are present throughout and distances in miles along roads between towns have been added. New York's first railroads are also included for the first time. The title has been moved from the upper left to the lower left corner. This edition is not listed in Rumsey nor in Phillips. S. Augustus Mitchell unknown
1977135932Los Angeles: Tony DiDio / Cal-Am Artists 1977. Revised Draft script for the 1978 film. Released theatrically in 1978 released on VHS in the early 1980s subsequently labeled a "video nasty" and banned in the UK from 1982 to 2000. <br/><br/>Quintessential exploitation film about a ski-masked maniac Mitchell who wreaks terror on the tenants of an apartment complex dispatching victims with a variety of power tools and other items from his toolbox. <br/><br/>Features a cameo by adult film star Kelly Nichols Jessica Lange's stunt double in John Guillermin's 1976 adventure "King Kong" where she is riddled with nails in a controversial scene involving a nail gun. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Los Angeles. <br/><br/>Black titled wrappers. Noted as copy No. 28 in holograph ink on the first page. Title page present dated March 15 1977 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriters Friedenn Easter and Kindberg. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Muir 1970s. Thrower Nightmare USA. Tony DiDio / Cal-Am Artists unknown books
1945169291London: Michael Joseph 1945. First UK Edition. The 18th Mrs. Bradley mystery.<br /> <br /> Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Spine lean board edges lightly worn with an owner name in ink to the front endpaper. Jacket lightly toned to the spine and rear panel with a couple tiny splashes to the bottom right corner of the rear panel. Michael Joseph unknown
1989106252Robert Miller Gallery 1989-10-02. Hardcover. Like New. 12x10x0. As new clean tight and bright oblong format hardcover in clear acetate jacket. oversized and overweight. e36 Please email for photos. Robert Miller Gallery hardcover
19377251New York: The Macmillan Company 1937. First Edition February 1937 Printing. First edition early printing - from February 1937 published nine months after the first printing. In its original dust jacket with thirty-one printings listed on the bottom of the front panel. Measuring approximately 8.5" x 5.75" with 1037 numbered pages.<br /> <br /> This book is in very good condition. Minor surface wear and staining to the original gray cloth boards. Endsheets darkened with age. No previous ownership names or marks. The original dust jacket is in good plus condition. Moderate chipping and creasing at the extremities most noticeable at the top of the spine. Several small closed tears visible on the panels. Original $3.00 price is present on the front flap. <br /> <br /> Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind" is a romance novel set in Georgia during the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era that followed. The novel centers on its protagonist Scarlett O'Hara and her struggle to rebuild and sustain her wealth which had been lost as a result of the fall of the Confederacy. Using any means necessary Scarlett regains what she has lost in large part due to Rhett Butler a scoundrel and scallawag with a bad reputation. The trials and tribulations of Scarlett and her unwavering perseverance make this novel an American classic. Winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1937 "Gone with the Wind" went on to become an Academy Award-winning film in 1939.<br /> <br /> Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.<br /> <br /> Inventory #P6-21. The Macmillan Company unknown
1947156219N.p.: N.p. 1947. Vintage reference photograph from the 1947 film showing actress Marlene Dietrich playing the zither. Stamp of photographer Whitey Schafer on the verso.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1946 novel by Jolán Földes about a British soldier who escapes from the Gestapo during World War II by posing as a gypsy. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Bend and Corbett Oregon. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1942157691N.p.: N.p. 1942. Vintage reference photograph from the 1942 film showing director Mitchell Leisen talking to actors Marlene Dietrich and Fred MacMurray between takes. Provenance stamp on the verso. <br /> <br /> An eccentric unmarried actress who longs for motherhood finds an abandoned baby and enlists a divorced pediatrician's help in raising the child. <br /> <br /> Set in New York.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with paper tape reinforcements on the corner versos. N.p. unknown
1954150809N.p.: N.p. 1954. Treatment script for the 1955 film. Bound in after the outline are several sets of character descriptions and continuity notes. <br /> <br /> Santa Fe's first female doctor Greer Garson wants to introduce modern medical technology to the town but encounters resistance both from the local hospital which is run by a Catholic priest Walter Hampden and from the town's only other doctor Dana Andrews. <br /> <br /> Set in Boston Massachusetts and Santa Fe New Mexico shot on location in Tucson the Sonoran Desert and the Sierrita Mountains Arizona.<br /> <br /> Green titled wrappers with credits for director Mervyn LeRoy. Title page present dated 4/13/54 noted as Story Outline with credits for director Mervyn LeRoy and screenwriter Frank Butler. 193 leaves with last page of text numbered 81. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Pitts 4148. N.p. unknown
1954150809N.p.: N.p. 1954. Treatment script for the 1955 film. Bound in after the outline are several sets of character descriptions and continuity notes. <br/><br/>Santa Fe's first female doctor Greer Garson wants to introduce modern medical technology to the town but encounters resistance both from the local hospital which is run by a Catholic priest Walter Hampden and from the town's only other doctor Dana Andrews. <br/><br/>Set in Boston Massachusetts and Santa Fe New Mexico shot on location in Tucson the Sonoran Desert and the Sierrita Mountains Arizona.<br/><br/>Green titled wrappers with credits for director Mervyn LeRoy. Title page present dated 4/13/54 noted as Story Outline with credits for director Mervyn LeRoy and screenwriter Frank Butler. 193 leaves with last page of text numbered 81. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Pitts 4148. N.p. unknown books
1966WRCLIT81493Dublin: Allen Figgis 1966. x1011pp. Quarto. Gilt cloth-textured boards. Fifty full-page color plates by the author each with commentary. Introduction by the Earl of Wicklow. Edited by Edgar W. Battle. Gift inscription on front free endsheet otherwise a very good or slightly better copy in price- clipped dust jacket with some rubbing to the extremities and a faint ring mark on the lower panel. First edition. After a Sioux uprising Nebraska-born Mitchell 1890 - 1973 moved with her family to Ireland where she eventually married into the Jameson family. Her watercolors as the title suggests record aspects of the city now faded if not forever lost. The number of copies printed was modest and in the full sway of the Celtic Tiger copies realized astonishing sums at auction. Allen Figgis hardcover books
194330877New York: Duell Sloan and Pearce 1943. 1st edition. Red cloth binding with black spine lettering. Dust jacket. VG/VG bit of chipping to spine ends. 10 253 1 blank pp. Woodcut vignette to t.p. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-5/8" <br/><br/>"The majority of the twenty stories in this book are about low-life in New York City" hence we speculate the title for McSorely's Old Ale House is the oldest est. 1854 continuously-operated Irish pub in New York City. As a measure of its 'traditionally minded' owners the tavern was men-only until 1970 when the National Organization for Women won a legal suit thereby gaining admission if not welcome. Duell, Sloan and Pearce hardcover books
194458815New York: The New Yorker 1944. First separate edition originally appeared in the January 1944 issue of The New Yorker. 8vo. 9 pp. printed double-column. A native of eastern North Carolina Mitchell 1908-1996 wrote similar sketches for The New Yorker for decades 1930s-1960s continuing to go to his office every day until near his death though publishing in the periodical nothing of significance after 1965. Cover title: "The Mayor of the Fish Market a Profile." Not in Thornton. OCLC locates one copy New York State Library. Very good. Original decorated tan wrappers rubbed stapled. #5909. <br/><br/> The New Yorker unknown books
188223679Chicago: O.L. Fox & Co. Publishers and Printers 204 Dearborn St 1882. 3.75" x 7". 48pp illustrated. Original printed stiff paper wrappers elaborately illustrated the rear wrap folds over and encases text leaves. Many illustrations of wagons and buggies descriptions provided with each illustration. Light wear Very Good. <br/><br/> A rare catalogue annual from the Company founded by Henry Mitchell who came to Chicago from Scotland in 1834. "His name is intimately connected with the history of wagon manufacture in the West." Indeed "he built the first wagon ever constructed in" Chicago. Mitchell moved to Kenosha Wisconsin in 1839 and then to Racine. William T. Lewis was Mitchell's son-in-law and a Wisconsin assemblyman. The firm had the capacity to turn out one wagon every twenty minutes with an average production rate of 800 wagons each month. Wagons were sold worldwide. See Willshire. The History of Racine & Kenosha Counties 459. <br/>OCLC 31685140 4- U VA Clarke Hist. Lib. Lib. MI IA State Hist. Soc. as of February 2018. Romaine 87 1898 catalog. Not in Winterthur or NUC. O.L. Fox & Co., Publishers and Printers, 204 Dearborn St unknown books
198315278JAustin: Humanities Research Center/University of Texas 1983. First Edition. Signed by Cammie King 1934-2010 who played Clark Gable’s and Vivien Leigh’s daughter Bonnie Blue Butler in the 1939 film classic produced by David O.Selznick. She has signed the book with both names. Cammie King ‘Bonnie Blue Butlerâ€. King was also the voice the character Faline in the Walt Disney’s 1942 animated film classic Bambi and was the step daughter of Dr. Herbert Kalmus who created the stunning color film process Technicolor which was used to film Gone With the Wind. Extensive finely printed 121 page catalogue book of the landmark exhibition of Gone With the Wind material existing in the David O. Selznick Archives. Contains numerous illustrations of important production material including some of the original costume designs reproduced in color. Most of the illustrations have never been reproduced before. Among some of the important documents reproduced are an original Margaret Mitchell letter to Selznick a fascinating memo to Selznick from F. Scott Fitzgerald discussing the character Melanie plus memos to and from Selznick establishing the production etc. Paperbound. Fine. Scarce. Humanities Research Center/University of Texas unknown books
18343245Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell 1834. Full period color 17 x 20 1/2 inches folding into gilt-stamped brown leather covers. Statistical table laid down on inside front cover. Five insets see below. Minor repairs. This is the second pocket map edition of D. H. Vance's map of New York State with the imprint of S. Augustus Mitchell. Mitchell had purchased the plate from Anthony Finley in 1831 removed Vance's name added a new border and included it in his edition of the A New American Atlas 1831. The map was first issued as a pocket map by Mitchell in 1832. With the 1832 edition Mitchell replaced the inset "Profile of the Erie Canal" with four insets: "Vicinity of Albany" "Vicinity of New York" "Vicinity of the Falls of Niagara" and "Vicinity of Rochester." With this 1834 edition the statistical table at right was replaced by an inset "Map of the Hudson River." Numerous new towns are present throughout and distances in miles along roads between towns have been added. New York's first railroads are also included for the first time. The title has been moved from the upper left to the lower left corner. This edition is not listed in Rumsey nor in Phillips. S. Augustus Mitchell unknown books
1937150759N.p.: N.p. 1937. Vintage double weight reference photograph of director Mitchell Leisen demonstrating how to kiss Jean Arthur while Ray Milland looks on from the 1937 film. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1937 short story by Vera Caspary.<br /> <br /> During the Great Depression obscenely wealthy baker J.B. Ball Edward Arnold angered at his wife's Mary Nash spending throws her very expensive sable coat off the roof where it lands on the head of stenographer Mary Smith Arthur leading to a life-altering chain of events.<br /> <br /> Set in New York City. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Some edgewear else Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films A History and Filmography: 1934-1942. N.p. unknown
1937150759N.p.: N.p. 1937. Vintage double weight reference photograph of director Mitchell Leisen demonstrating how to kiss Jean Arthur while Ray Milland looks on from the 1937 film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1937 short story by Vera Caspary.<br/><br/>During the Great Depression obscenely wealthy baker J.B. Ball Edward Arnold angered at his wife's Mary Nash spending throws her very expensive sable coat off the roof where it lands on the head of stenographer Mary Smith Arthur leading to a life-altering chain of events.<br/><br/>Set in New York City. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Some edgewear else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films A History and Filmography: 1934-1942. N.p. unknown books
1897409259New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1897. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Rubbed spine frayed at ends else a sound copy. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece and chart. Original pictorial brown cloth. First edition. The dedication copy inscribed by the author to his daughter on the front free endpaper: "For Dear Harrie! whop has put her Xmas monies–a waste of shekals!–into the purchase of this book & so has given me the tenderest compliment of the season! New York 1898 Donald. G. Mitchell." Opposite the dedication leaf Mitchell has tipped in a manuscript note: "To My Daughters–who have never done me a more unkind thing than to urge me to the writing & printing of this little book & who have loved and encouraged me–by insisting that it is better than it really is: God bless them! D.G.M." The printed dedication reads: "This volume is affectionately inscribed to those daughters of Edgewood who have helped the author in so many searching and housewifely ways and who have encouraged him by kindly insisting–over and over–that this little book was a great deal better than it really is. God bless them! D. G. M. February 22 1897." BAL 13980 a second volume of essays under the same general title was published in 1899. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
1800323878Washington D.C. 1800. 1p. Folded quarto sheet. Usual folds. 1p. Folded quarto sheet. Dr. Mitchell informs Duvall the Comptroller of the Treasury of the plight of William Dunlap: "This gentleman has suffered extremely by misfortunes in life which have stripped him of his property . unknown
1850332064Philadelphia: Thomas Cowperthwait & Co 1850. Map. Engraving with original hand color. Image measures 15 1/2" x 12 1/2"<br/> <br/> This detailed map of New York was published in Thomas Cowperthwait's 1850 edition of Mitchell's "New Universal Atlas." It is one of the first maps of New York City to appear in a commercial atlas. The map depicts southern Manhattan from 37th street to Battery Park and parts of the Brooklyn waterfront. Colored to depict wards the map includes references to parks churches hotels markets individual streets piers ferries and important buildings. The Harlem Railroad is delineated in red extending down Fourth Avenue the Bowery and Lafayette St. to City Hall Park. The map is in very good condition with some wear to left margin from the binding - not affecting the image.<br> <br> Samuel Augustus Mitchell Sr. 1792-1868 was one of the leaders in American cartography of the 19th century and pioneered the conversion of engraved map plates to more affordable lithographic plates. His son Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr. continued his father's successful mapmaking and publishing business and was one of the most prolific and renowned 19th century American publishers.<br> <br> Thomas Cowperthwait & Co. took over publication of S. A. Mitchell's important "Universal Atlas" in 1850 and continued to produce updated maps that were considered some of the best commercial cartography of the 19th century.<br/> <br/> Thomas Cowperthwait & Co unknown
186764442S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. 1867. Later printing. Map. Color map 15 1/4 x 12 1/4" Colored by county. Decorative vine-patterned borders. Three of the corners and the right margin chipped with slight loss. Plate 51 from "Mitchell's New General Atlas." Moffat 87. Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr. was the son of Samuel Augustus Mitchell Sr. the most prominent American map publisher of his generation. Mitchell Sr. began publishing maps because he was frustrated with the low quality and inaccuracy of early 19th century maps. Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr. carried on the Mitchell family business until the late 1880s. Information from National Museum of American History Behring Center Smithsonian Institution<br /> <br /> Map of the Settlements in the Great Salt Lake Country is printed as an inset in the upper right of "County Map of California." Many new settlements are shown in Cache Valley. S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. unknown
1859012759Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott 1859. Signed on the front flyleaf by the Philadelphian physician James Aitkens Meigs and dated by him June 1859. Spine ends repaired; bookplate; inkstamp on title page. First Edition in Book Form. Original Cloth. Good/No Jacket. J. B. Lippincott Hardcover
507Light soiling and wear to boards darkened to gutters ink ownership signature to front free endpaper lacks dust jacket. Very good. Margaret Mitchell. Gone with the Wind. New York: The Macmillan Company 1936. Early printing Sept. 1936. <br /> Octavo. 1037pp. Publisher's grey cloth stamped in blue to spine and front cover.<br /> <br /> . unknown