Typed Letter, signed “Margaret Mitchell Marsh” , 27 December 1937, to Danish illustrator Axel Mathiesen

by Margaret Mitchell

$4,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Two pages, on her personal stationery, 64 lines, approx. 375 words. 1 vols. 4to. Fine. With mailing envelope and a carbon copy of Mitchell’s letter of same date to publisher Hasselbalch. Item #374822 Margaret Mitchell’s novel Gone with the Wind was the colossal best seller of the twentieth century, selling more than a million copies within months of its appearance in 1936. David O. Selznick bought the film rights soon after publication

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