Buy this book on-line MITCHELL, MARGARET - Edited by Debra Freer: : Lost LaysenLONDON.ORION,1996. ISBN 0752804820.
UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - lack of publisher's price.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks, tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark brown cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a red+yellow striped headband and immaculate monochrome author's hand-drawn flower design and facsimile handwritng illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,6-127pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,a preface,an introduction, notes,profuse contemporary b/w auto+biographical photographs and b/w facsimile examples of various handwriting styles by various participants in the biography,interspersed throughout the text and the book,the novella itself,editor's note,and a bibliography; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and contents list/table.
A very elegant production of a short fiction work,includes contemporary b/w illustrations all on high-gloss paper.A new manuscript discovered 50 years after the author's death amongst the papers of her lifelong friend Henry Love Angel, and now believed to contain the background material as used in "Gone with the Wind".Also contains biographical material on Mitchell and Henry Love Angel's relationships and social circle.Endpages portray a cover design by the author for Lost Laysen Books I & II.A novella of delightful romantic nature,previously the only unpublished work,produced on the 60th anniversary of the bestseller,hence the lavish design of this short book.
The first publication of this short novel written by the author aged 16 years-old. Described as a rollicking adventure of honour and unrequited love in the South Pacific.
As well as the title novella,this book also includes the story of the relationship between Margaret Mitchell and Henry Love Angel, reproducing the intimate letters from Mitchell to Angel and with contemporary monochrome photographs of themselves and their social circle of friends and acquaintances.
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