Gone with the Wind.

£7,000 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Fine. Strikingly bound by Paul Delrue, who explained that ‘I have tried very hard to distance myself from [the] masterful, magnificent film…. a wonderful opportunity to re-read the book and capture by feelings on the book covers on a grand scale’. His binding is intended to invoke ‘a battle scene, perhaps… like looking through a large window, to fertile land growing for future generations. There are birds brooding above, waiting for the next chapter.’ The binding appears in Paul Delrue’s autobiography, My Soul has no Friends (pp. 225-6), where he remembered it fondly, ‘a book I have truly enjoyed binding’.

• Year: 1936

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