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Margaret Mitchell

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Margaret Mitchell

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 17 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
American author (1900–1949) whose single novel, Gone With the Wind, became one of the best-sellers of all time and spawned one of the most fabled movies in Hollywood history. She died after being struck by a speeding car at the age of 48. TLS signed “Margaret Mitchell Marsh,” one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, July 8, 1948. In full: “Your copy of ‘Eo Vento Levou’ containing your letter of May 4th has reached me. I am very sorry that I must return the book to you without the autograph you requested. I am both honored and touched by your interest in my novel and by your desire for my autograph in your copy. Nothing has given me more pleasure than the kind interest of readers of the Portuguese translation of my book, and I assure you that I am grateful for your interest. However, my secretary has written you about my policy in this matter and the reasons for it. I hope you will consider my signature at the end of this letter as an ‘autograph.’ I am sorry, too, that I cannot send you the personally autographed picture you requested. That, too, is something I have found I could not do. However, I am enclosing with your book a pamphlet which my publishers in New York printed shortly after ‘Gone With the Wind’ was published. It contains a photograph of me with a facsimile signature.” Pencil notation to bottom edge and some scattered light toning, otherwise fine condition. When Mitchell wrote Gone With the Wind, she had no idea of the sensation it would become. It was an instant bestseller, selling over 1,000,000 copies within the first six months of its publication, and she became so overwhelmed by the countless requests that she received to autograph copies of her novel that less than a year after its publication, she vowed not to sign any more, not even for close friends or relatives.
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