Mitchell Margaret Harwell Richard Editor (7 results)

Condition: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. Book Club edition. (film adaptions, United States history).

Very good with gently rubbed and bumped edges Fair with large, closed tear in bottom edge and a small loss from top edge of front panel. Rubbed, bumped and chipped edges overall Brown cloth with gilt lettering. 8vo.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second Printing. Second printing from 1976. Dust jacket has light wear, fading, and clipped price on flap. Brown cloth boards have light wear. Binding is good. Page edges have some staining. Pages are clean and unmarked. 441 pages. LO.

Hardcover. Second edition. Dust jacket has light wear aroun.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 2020.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. photographs (illustrator). No edition stated. Hard cover binding, 416 pp. Includes stage directions and black and white photographs from movie. Appears unread. No dust jacket. Like new condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. xxxvi, [2], 441, [1] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Index. DJ has some wear, soiling, tears and chips. Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 - August 16, 1949) was an American novelist and journalist. 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 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. Richard (Barksdale) Harwell (1915-88) was Bowdoin College's librarian from 1961-68. Before coming to Bowdoin, Harwell was educated in Atlanta Public schools. Born on June 6, 1915 in Washington, Ga., Harwell furthered his education at Emory University, where he received his Library of Science degree (1938). For the next two years (1938-40), he was assistant to the director of the George Washington Flowers Memorial Collection of Southern Americana at the Duke University Library. He served his country as lieutenant for the U.S. Navy during World War II (1943-46). He returned to his alma mater and was named assistant librarian in 1948. From 1954-56, he was the director of the Southeastern Interlibrary Research Facility; from 1956-57, he was the director of publications for the Virginia State Library. A noted Civil War historian, Harwell was also author of several books, numerous articles and hundreds of reviews. Derived from a New York Times review: "Margaret Mitchell's â Gone With the Wind' Letters" is accurately named, for the volume is made up almost exclusively of letters concerned with the novel and the film. Always determined to preserve her privacy, Miss Mitchell destroyed many purely personal letters. Her other papers, after her death and the death of her husband, passed into the hands of her brother, Stephens Mitchell, who in 1970 gave them to the University of Georgia. If a selection of the letters was to be published, a procedure to which Mr. Mitchell reluctantly agreed, it was natural to put them in the hands of Richard Harwell, the curator of rare books and Georgian history at the University of Georgia Library, author of several books on the Confederacy and editor of many others. Her constant writing of letters had something to do with the development of her style, but again the virtues of the style, though real, are out of proportion to the success of the book. The letters have plenty of interest in their own right. Her letters acknowledging favorable reviews were not merely appreciative but warmhearted and detailed. For instance, she wrote Herschel Brickell of The New York Evening Post: "I am Margaret Mitchell, of Atlanta, author of â Gone With the Wind,' and I want to thank you so very much for the marvelous review you gave me on June 30. . . . Thank you for picking up the parallel between Scarlett and Atlanta. No one else (as far as I know) caught it. Thank you for going on record that while my story â borders on the melodramatic' at times, the times of which I wrote were melodramatic. Well, they were but it takes a person with a Southern background to appreciate just how melodramatic they really were. I had to tone down so much, that I had taken from actual incidents, just to make them sound barely credible. And thank you for your defense of Captain Butler and his credibility." Either she wrote almost no letters quarreling with reviewers editor omitted them. She had to leave Smith College after her mother's death to keep house for her father and brother. For a time she worked on The Atlanta Journal, but she broke her ankle, developed arthritis, and was on crutches for three years, a period during which she read quantities of books about the Civil War and the history of Atlanta. The writing of "GWTW" was interrupted by other accidents and illnesses, and its success when it was finally published subjected her to the merciless attention of readers, local, nationwide and eventually worldwide, who sought favors of her. The excitement over the filming of "GWTW" was even greater than that over the book. Miss Mitchell had specified in her contract that she would have nothing to do with the script of the moving picture or the selection of the cast. In spite of this, there were constant letters, wires and telephone calls that she felt obliged to acknowledge despite the contract. There are no letters in which she states what she thought about the movie, but she does speak of watching it five times. Book Club Edition [Verso states Second Printing].