Storer (James Sargant ) . Ancient Reliques ; or, delineations of monastic, castellated, & domestic architecture,..., 2 volumes, 1812, numerous black & white engraved plates with tissue guards, period inscription to volume 1 front endpaper, bookplates to front pastedowns, volume 1 front endpaper reinforced with fabric tape, some spotting & light offsetting, uniform contemporary gilt decorated embossed calf, volume 1 front board partially detached, boards & spines rubbed with some loss to head & foot, 8vo, together with Mason (Rupert) , Robes of Thespis, costume designs by modern artists, 1st edition, 1928, Ernest Benn Ltd, 109 colour & monochrome plates, some light spotting throughout, original gilt decorated blue cloth In dust jacket covers marked & rubbed with chipping & minor loss to head & foot, large 4to, plus other late 19th century & modern architecture, costume, art & theatre reference, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (Qty: 6 shelves)
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Hedin (Sven) . Trans-Himalaya, discoveries and adventures in Tibet, 3 volumes, 1909, 14 maps & 538 (of 544) black & white illustrations, some light spotting & toning, uniform contemporary red cloth, spines lightly & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, Overland To India, 2 volumes, 1910, numerous colour and black & white illustrations, bookplates to front pastedowns, some light spotting & toning, uniform original gilt decorated blue cloth, boards & spines slightly rubbed & faded, 8vo, together with Curzon (George Nathaniel) , British Government in India, the story of the viceroys and government houses, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1925, numerous monochrome illustrations, bookplates to front pastedowns, some light toning, uniform original gilt decorated blue cloth, spines lightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, large 4to, and other late 19th century & modern India history & reference, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to (Qty: 6 shelves)
Camden (William) . Camden's Britannia Abridg'd;..., 2 volumes, 1701, printed by J.B., modern endpapers, volume 1 lacking pp 297-304, volume 2 title page torn & repaired, s ome light marks, toning & offsetting, uniform later half calf, spines lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with Kitchiner (William) , The Cook's Oracle;..., 4th edition, 1822, some minor toning, contemporary gilt decorated half calf, boards & spine slightly rubbed with loss to foot of spine, front hinges cracked, 8vo, and Culpeper (Nicholas) , The Complete Herbal,..., new edition, 1861, 20 hand coloured plates, lacking front endpapers & frontispiece, some marks, toning & spotting throughout, contemporary gilt decorated half calf, boards & spine rubbed, lacks spine label, 4to, plus other cookery reference & miscellaneous history, some leather bindings, some original cloth, G/VG, 8vo/folio (Qty: 6 shelves)NOTESSome volumes incomplete, sold as seen not subject to return
Henry (J.D.) . Oil Fields of the Empire, 1st edition, 1910, numerous black & white illustrations, some light spotting & toning, original gilt decorated red cloth, boards rubbed, spine toned & rubbed with minor loss to head & foot, 4to, together with Redwood (Thomas Boverton) , Petroleum: A Treatise on..., 3 volumes, 4th edition, 1922, numerous monochrome folding maps, ex-library copies with associated marks, period inscription to volume 1 front endpaper, some light marginal toning throughout, uniform original red cloth, boards & spines lightly rubbed, 8vo, and Thompson (A. Beeby) , Oil-Field Development and Petroleum Mining, 1916, 8 colour folding maps to rear, 43 black & white plates, period inscription to front endpaper, ex-library copy with associated marks, light spotting & toning, original red cloth, boards & spine rubbed, 8vo, plus other early 20th century & modern oil, petroleum & mining reference, including documents, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to (Qty: 6 shelves & a carton)
Gray (Todd & Rowe, Margery) . Travels in Georgian Devon, the illustrated journals of the Reverend John Swete, 1789-1800, 4 volumes, 1997-2000, Devon, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets, large 8vo, together with Daniell (William) , A Voyage Round Great Britain..., 2 volumes, 1978, Scolar Press, numerous monochrome illustrations, uniform original blue cloth in slipcase, minor fading to spines, 8vo, and Hartley (Dorothy & Elliot, Margaret M. Elliot) , Life and Work of the People of England, 2 volumes, 1931, numerous black & white illustrations, some light marginal toning, original cloth in dust jackets, covers slightly toned & rubbed with minor loss to head & foot, 8vo, plus other mostly modern U.K. topography & history reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/folio (Qty: 6 shelves)
Smith (A.H.) . The Place-names of Gloucestershire, 4 volumes, 1964-65, Cambridge University Press, uniform original cloth in dust jackets, spines lightly toned & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with Blunt (John Henry) , Dursley and its neighbourhood;..., 1877, Dursley, 11 black & white illustrations, period inscription to front endpaper, some light spotting & marginal toning, original gilt decorated red cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, and St. Clair Baddeley (Webore) , A Cotteswold Manor, being the history of Painswick, 1907, 21 monochrome illustrations, some light spotting & marginal toning, contemporary gilt decorated brown quarter morocco, 4to, plus Billington (R.J. et al) , The Locomotives of the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway, 1839-1903, 1903, Locomotive Publishing Co., black & white illustrations, stamp to head of half-title, minor toning, original wrappers, spine slightly toned & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and other late 19th century & modern Gloucestershire & Cotswold history & reference, including Gloucestershire Records Series, volumes 1-5, 8, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (Qty: 6 shelves)
Defoe (Daniel) . A Tour Thro' the whole Island of Great Britain,..., 2 volumes, limited edition of 1000 copies, 1927, 40 black & white facsimile maps, some light spotting, top edge gilt, publishers uniform original cloth, spines slightly toned & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with Bloom (Edward A. & Lillian D.) , The Piozzi Letters, correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi ,1784-1821, 6 volumes, 1989-2002, University of Delaware Press, U.S.A., 6 black & white frontispieces, all original cloth in dust jackets, volume 1 spine slightly faded, minor rubbing to head of spines, 8vo, and Greenoak (Francesca & Mabey, Richard) , The Journals of Gilbert White, 3 volumes, 1986-89, black & white illustrations, uniform original cloth in dust jackets, spines lightly rubbed to head, 8vo, plus other modern biography, letters & history reference, including The Letters of David Garrick, 3 volumes, 1963, edited by David M. Little, 8vo, all original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo (Qty: 6 shelves)
![Thomson (Hugh [illustrator]) . The Canterbury Pilgrims, tales retold from Chaucer and others, by F.J. Harvey Darton, circa 19](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/f5399dcd-9895-4006-9620-ab1400ddab44/36475212-9eac-4da3-9e63-ab14011d70f0/468x382.jpg)
Thomson (Hugh [illustrator]) . The Canterbury Pilgrims, tales retold from Chaucer and others, by F.J. Harvey Darton, circa 1904, 50 black & white illustrations, period inscription to front endpaper, some minor spotting & marginal toning, top edge gilt, original gilt decorated black cloth, boards & spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with Robinson (Charles [illustrator]) , The True Annalsof Fairy-Land, by William Canton, circa 1900, numerous colour and black & white illustrations, some minor spotting, original gilt decorated blue cloth, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and Tregarthen (Enys) , North Cornwall Fairies And Legends, 1906, 26 monochrome illustrations, some light spotting, period inscription to front endpaper, original gilt decorated red cloth, boards & spine slightly faded & rubbed, 8vo, plus Heighway (Richard [illustrator]) , The Fables of Aesop..., by Joseph Jacobs, 1894, numerous black & white illustrations, some minor spotting, original gilt decorated cloth, boards & spines lightly rubbed, 8vo, and other 19th & early 20th century illustrated literature, fiction, & reference, including the Popular History series, 6 volumes, circa 1894, all original cloth, some gilt decorated, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo
Waley (Arthur). The Tale of Genji, & The Sacred Tree, by Lady Murasaki, translated from the Japanese by Arthur Waley, 2 volumes, 1st editions, 1925 & 1926, original blue cloth gilt, spines toned, 8vo, together with Morris (Ivan). The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Oxford, 1967, monochrome plates, original cloth gilt in dust wrappers, 8vo, plus Waley (Arthur). The Lady Who Loved Insects, translated from the Japanese by Arthur Waley, Dry-points by Hermine David, Blackamore Press, 1929, etched illustrations, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original silk, with card slipcase, some marks and light soiling to card slipcase, 8vo, limited edition 472/550, and others on Japanese literature and art, all 20th century publications in English, mostly cloth bindings, but including some paperbound editions, 8vo/4to (approximately 150 volumes) (Qty: 3 shelves)NOTESFrom the Library of Alan and Joan Tucker, Stroud, Gloucestershire.
Baskerville Press. Paradise Lost. A Poem, in Twelve Books, & Paradise Regain'd. A Poem, in Four Books, by John Milton, Birmingham, John Baskerville, 1759, some light spotting, mostly to first and last few leaves, contemporary mottled calf, worn with covers detached, large 8vo in 4's, together with The Works of Mr. William Congreve, 3 volumes, Birmingham, John Baskerville, 1761, engraved frontispiece to each volume, light spotting to first and last few leaves, contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt decorated spines, with one or two labels missing, somewhat worn with joints cracked, 8vo, plus Dryden (John). The Miscellaneous Works, 4 volumes, 1st collected edition, J. & R. Tonson, 1760, contemporary half calf, old reback with endpapers renewed, some minor wear, with upper cover to first volume detached, 8vo, and other miscellaneous English and French literature, including Sainte-Beuve, Madame de Sevigne, Samuel Johnson's Works of the English Poets, 74 (of 75) volumes, lacking volume 24 only, 1790, rebound in 20th century orange cloth, a little rubbed and marked to spines, small 8vo, all other volumes bound in contemporary leather bindings, mostly incomplete sets, rubbed and some marks, mainly 8vo (180 volumes in total) (Qty: 3 shelves)
James (Henry) . Italian Hours, 1909, 64 colour & monochrome illustrations by Joseph Pennell, some light spotting, top edge gilt, publishers original gilt decorated green cloth, spine lightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, large 8vo, The Letters of Henry James, 2 volumes, edited by Percy Lubbock, 1920, 2 monochrome portrait frontispieces, some minor spotting & toning, uniform original blue cloth, spines lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, Notes Of A Son & Brother, 1st edition, 1914, 6 black & white illustrations, minor marginal toning, original blue cloth, minor rubbing to head & foot of spine, 8vo, The Tales of Henry James, 2 volumes, edited by Maqbool Aziz, 1st editions, 1973-78, Oxford, original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, together with 47 further volumes of Henry James literature & biography, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, some duplicate copies, G/VG, 8vo (Qty: 3 shelves)
Desaguliers (J.T.) . Fires Improv'd: being a new method of building chimneys,..., 1715, printed for J. Sensex, 7 black & white folding plates, plate 9 is a modern facsimile, some light toning throughout, gutters cracked, later mottled calf, 8vo, together with Livewell Chapman [publisher] , Christ within the Vaile: or, Christs Appearance now in Heaven for Beleevers..., 1653, printed for R.I., spotting & toning throughout, partial bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary full calf, hinges cracked, 8vo, and Blind Harry, The Acts and Deeds of the Illustrious and Valiant Champion Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie, circa 1758, Edinburgh, lacking title page, front endpapers detached,spotting & toning throughout, contemporary half calf, front board detached, rubbed with minor loss, 4to, plus other 17th, 18th & 19th century miscellaneous history & literature, mostly leather bindings, some original cloth, some odd volumes, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/4to (Qty: 6 shelves)NOTESApproximately 135 volumes
Skinner (Stephan) . Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanèæ,..., 1671, T. Roycroft, later inscriptions to original front endpapers, rebound with later endpapers, some spotting throughout, later calf spine retaining contemporary full calf boards, large 8vo, together with John (M.) , De verborum Significatione, The Exposition of the Termes and Difficill Wordes, Contained in the Foure Buikes of Regiam Majestatem,..., 1597, Edinburgh, printed by Robert Walde-grave, period inscriptions & loss to the final leaf, some toning, spotting & marks throughout, modern endpapers, modern quarter calf, spine lightly faded, 8vo, and Nisbet (John) , Some Doubts & Questions in the Law; especially of Scotland...., 1698, Edinburgh, printed by George Mosman, some later marginal annotations throughout, later endpapers, some light toning & minor spotting, later half calf, boards & spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus other 17th, 18th & 19th century miscellaneous history & literature, mostly leather bindings, some original cloth, some odd volumes, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/folio (Qty: 6 shelves)NOTESApproximately 100 volumes
Price (Richard) . Observations on Reversionary Payments;..., 1771, printed T. Cadell, period inscription to head of the title page, some toning, rear endpaper partially detached, gutters cracked, contemporary full calf, boards & spine rubbed, hinges cracked, 8vo, together with Gibson (Edmund) , Synodus Anglicana: or, The Constitution and Proceedings of an English Convocation,..., 1702, printed for A. and J. Churchill, period inscriptions to front endpaper & the title page, cracked gutters, some light toning throughout, contemporary mottled full calf, front board partially detached, slightly rubbed, 8vo, and Carey (M.L.M.) , Four Months in a Dahabëéh; or, narrative of a winter's cruise on the Nile, 1863, 6 colour plates, plate to pp 87 detached, bookplate to front pastedown, some light spotting & minor toning, all edges gilt, original gilt decorated blue cloth, boards & spine slightly faded & rubbed, 8vo, plus other 19th century & modern history, topography & miscellaneous literature, some leather bindings, many original cloth, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/folio (Qty: 3 shelves & a carton)
![Wheelhouse ( M.V . [illustrator]) . Easter Eggs, from the German of Christoph von Schmid, 1908, 6 colour plates plus black &a](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/f5399dcd-9895-4006-9620-ab1400ddab44/b067fadd-26ad-47f2-9299-ab14011d79b4/468x382.jpg)
Wheelhouse ( M.V . [illustrator]) . Easter Eggs, from the German of Christoph von Schmid, 1908, 6 colour plates plus black & white illustrations, some minor toning, original illustrated boards, spine light rubbed, 8vo, plus original artwork of the front cover by M.V. Wheelhouse, some spotting, together with Kipling (Rudyard) , Kim, Young People's Edition, 1958, illustrated & signed by Stuart Tresilian, black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers rubbed to head & foot with minor loss, 8vo, plus original pen & ink artwork of pp 5 illustration, framed & glazed, and Woden (George) , This Way To Fortune, a tale of a talent, circa 1929, minor spotting to the text block, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed to head & foot with minor loss, 8vo, plus other early 20th century & modern 1st edition fiction & literature, including Enid Blyton, A.E. Coppard, The Strand Magazine, some signed by the authors, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to (Qty: 3 shelves )
Berkshire. A Topographical Survey of the County of Berks, in Eighteen Sheets, in which is expressed, His Majesty's Royal Palace of Windsor, its Parks and Forrest; the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry; Towns, Villages, Hamlets, Farms, Cottages, etc. ... by J[ohn] Rocque, 1st edition, London: printed for and sold by the Author ... printed by James Dixwell, 1761, 13 leaves of letterpress including title-page printed in red and black, double-page engraved key map ('A Map of the County of Berks, reduced from an Actual Survey in 18 Sheets ... 1764') with inset plan of Oxford, large-scale map of Berkshire engraved after Rocque by Benning and Deharme and printed on 18 separate numbered sheets as issued, of which numbers 1-5 and 7-12 all double-page and hand-coloured in outline, 6 double-page and uncoloured, 13-15 and 16-18 single-page and uncoloured (sheet 15 being the decorative cartouche), and 16 single-page and hand-coloured in outline, all except text-leaves mounted on guards, light to moderate offsetting, key map with paper restoration to lower outer corner not affecting image, a few spots to sheet 1, modern red crushed half morocco, large folio (55.4 x 37 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESChubb p. 448; ESTC T213151. A very rare example of Rocque's large-scale map of Berkshire intact in its original eighteen separate sheets, and complete with the the key map (here a later state, date 1754) and all introductory letterpress. ESTC trace three copies only in libraries world-wide. Rocque's county maps were 'innovative in their portrayal of land use and vegetation' (ODNB).
Madonna with child. . Oil on canvas . Cm 76,50 x 76,50. The artwork is accompanied by a card by Sandro Bellesi. In a good state of conservation, the artwork, originally placed in a rounded frame in the central part, presents, within an indefinite space and seemingly lacking in depth, the figure of the Virgin Mary sitting in the act of supporting on her own legs the Child Jesus, in an upright pose. Halo around by an intense divine brightness, the little child of God, the source of light itself, is described as an infant with a white complexion and a thick blonde hair slightly curled with a blessing hand turned towards one or more ideal bystanders. Full of tenderness and maternal love appears the figure of the Madonna, with perfect features and smooth skin evoking the shiny pink chalcedony of Volterra, which, placed three- quarters, is totally attracted by the contemplation of the little son. The high quality found in the execution of the figures is masterfully emphasized also in the rendering of the fabrics, orchestrated mainly on precious effects rich in enamel, alternating, mostly, blue lapis lazuli to pearly white and red coral to olive green. The style characters and the close affinities with some works by Carlo Dolci, representing the same composition, allow you to refer the painting to the catalogue of this artist. Born in Florence in 1616 and son of the tailor Andra Dolci, Carlo, according to the historical memories handed down by his friend and biographer Filippo Baldinucci ( news of the teachers of the drawing by Cimabue, Florence, 1681-1728), was initiated to study painting around nine years in the school of Jacopo Vignali, an important Tuscan painter from the atelier of Matteo Rosselli. The close dependence on this master's style combined with the knowledge and study of the works of other local painters of the turn of the century, first among all those of Cristofano Allori, characterize, at the turn of the twenties, the artist's first well-known works today, marked by a very refined stylistic language marked largely by an acute realism, clearly visible in the supervised rendering of the characters and in the almost maniacal care of details, carried out with a rigour that we could call hyper-realistic. The success achivied with the first works favored the artist, starting from the early thirties, coveted commissions, mainly linked to the Florentin patrician and in particular to Casa Medici, for whose members Carlo worked at full speed until the moment of his death. On the trace of biographical sources, archive documents and inscriptions present in many paintings it is possible to follow punctually the activity of our, characterized, semore, "frm imagesof virginal and timeless beauty, displayed by the very smooth and almost porcelain rendering of the incarnates on which a pale astral light is shattered, and an aura of sacredness that is also veiled in profane representations, mostly portraits and allegories". The strong link with Christian doctrines, which remained constantly as a key element for the reading of his works and life choices of the artist, led Carlo to abhor the depiction of sensual or malicious paintings, very much in vogue in the Florentine art of the time linked essentially to the teachings of Francesco Furini and his followers, and to dedicate almost all his paintings to sacred subjects, mostly Madonna and Child, Gospel episodes and images of saints. The pure and profound interpretetion of the sacred verb, key element for the iconographic and philosophical reading of the painter's works, favored the close link he established with the Grand Duke Cosimo III de Medici and the mother of these Vittoria della Rovere. The only journey made by the artist beyond the Tuscan borders dates back to 1672. On the occasion of the upcoming wedding of Archduchess Claudia Felicita of Austria with the Emperor Leopoldo of Hasburg, Dolci stayed, in that year, some months at the court of Innsbruck, where he made, among other works, two portrait of the future bride. On his return to his country he was attacked for some years by a deep depressive crisis, which led him almost to abandon his profession. Thanks to the closeness of his family and his closest friends, after 1675, the artist resumed his activity at full speed, which ended with his dead in 1687. The artwork is an autograph replica of well-known compositions by Carlo Dolci, whose prototype is traditionally recognized by contemporary critics in the Madonna with child, otherwise known as Madonna delle pietre due to the presence of a sumptuous baroque frame in gilded metal and semi-precious stones, preserved in the Palatine Gallery of Palazzo Pitti, coming from the Medici collections. Erroneously dated by Francesca Baldassari in the 1930s and the reported by Riccardo Spinelli in the following decade, the work was the object of constant reflections by the artist as they indicate, in addition to the work under consideration, some replicas, sometimes almost identical and others with slight variations, among which they deserve to be remembered, for greater lexical relevance and for better quality, a version at the Borghese Gallery in Rome and one in the collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Viennna. The lack of historical memories related to the ab antiquo origin of the work does not exclude that it can be identified with one of the paintings with Madonna with child reported in the biographical documents and in the archival reports to the name of Carlo Dolci, among which appeared, precisely, a "beautiful Virgin with child, which with special care is preserved (go) in the chapel of the novitiate of the Fathers of St. Mark: work of alienated from the Florentine convent in the unknown era, whose historical memory was found by the writer only in recent times. Although slightly weaker in the passage of the brushstrokes on the crimson cloth of the Virgin's dress than the beautiful and cited prototype of the Palatine Gallery, the work, probably related to a later moment scalable to the sixties or seventies, reveals in any case the full autography of Dolci, as evidenced by the comparison with some derivations of workshop among which stands out a canvas in private collection assigned to seafaring honors: work, the latter, dignified but, to all intents and purposes, decidedly mediocre compared to the specimen under examination. . Frame present
ITALY 19TH CENTURY A pair of frames in ebonized wood, octagonals. fritware with underglaze and overglaze painted decoration. Cm 30,00 x 34,00. With embossed copper decorations and semiprecious stones with two porcelain plates by Capodimonte depicting "the expulsion from Paradise" and "Holy Family and angels".Light 21x17cm. Plate size 21x17cm.. Frame present
A Victorian light oak Davenport, with a fitted stationery top, hinged lid opening to reveal a burr maple interior, with four drawers, over two cupboard doors, opening to reveal four drawers and four dummy drawer front, raised on a shaped base, and bun feet on castors, 86cm H, 56cm W, 57cm D.
A G-Plan 1950's light oak and cream painted double wardrobe, with a mirrored central section, flanked by two doors, raised on ebonised feet, brass capped, 171.5cm H, 121.5cm W, 55cm D, together with a chest of seven drawers, raised on ebonised turned legs, on brass caps, 128cm H, 60.5cm W, 40cm D. (2)
Gunther Rall - Luftwaffe 1st Model Officers Dress Dagger by Paul Weyersberg & Co Solingen, fine early pattern example with flat type circular top pommel with gilt mobile swastikas to the centre. Blue leather covered grip retaining the wire binding. Cross guard with mobile swastikas to the centre. Complete with its original bullion dagger portepee. Leather covered scabbard with nickel silver mounts. Early pattern scabbard with staple covers. Original linked hanging chains to the scabbard with clip mount. Double edged plain blade with makers trade mark. Very good overall condition showing just light wear to the exterior fittings. The dagger is accompanied by a post war signed photograph of Gunther Rall and a signed declaration, gifting the dagger to Herbert Schreiber.
A Chinese famille verte light brown ground cup and saucer and a pair of saucers, Kangxi -- H 5 cm - Dia.: 8 cm (the cup)Ê Dia.: 13,4 - 12,8 cm (the saucers) -- -- -- Please request condition reports by e-mail on info@coronariauctions.com. They will be uploaded to the description on our website, where you can find additional HD images.
A John Marsh typed letter signed pertaining to Margaret Mitchell and Gone With the WindTyped Document Signed ('John R. Marsh'), 3 pp recto and verso, 4to, Atlanta, July 30, 1936, to Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Granberry and Mr. Herschel Brickell, on plain stationery. Marsh humorously describes himself as 'husband to the newest literary sensation' in this missive which thanks the recipients, friends of Margaret Mitchell, whom Marsh refers to as Peggy throughout, for giving her a safe haven in the midst of the success of Gone With the Wind, which was published in May 1936. Addressing Mitchell's sincere disbelief at the success of the book, he writes: 'Your diagnosis of the book's appeal threw at least some light on what continues to be the greatest mystery of her life–the book's enormous sale.' He also announces that Mitchell has gone to New York to 'take the Selznick scalp' and has signed a contract with him on that very day to produce a film version of Gone With the Wind (1939). Accompanied by a mimeographed letter, 2 pp, to Marsh from his brother Henry, who relishes the instant success of his sister-in-law's novel and requests Mitchell's autograph on several copies.Provenance: the collection of Tom Heyes. 8.5 x 11 in.
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