R. E. Lee: A Biography

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Hardcover. Fair. Octavos. 4 volumes. Matched set: Volume I: xviii, [1], 647 pages. Illustrated. Volume II: xii, [1], 621 pages, illustrated; Vol. III: xii, [1], 559 pages, illustrated; Vol. IV: viii, 594 pages, illustrated. Red cloth hardcovers with gilt titles on the front covers and spines. Volumes I, II, and IV are printed in 1935. Volume III printed in 1936. Light fading and soil to all 4 volumes. Hinges are browned. Orange crayon markings in volume 1 on both end sheets and page 1. Eugene Muse Mitchell's mailing address label (1401 Peachtree Street, N. E. Atlanta, Georgia) located on the front paste downs of all 4 volumes."Davison-Paxon Co. Book Shop" label located on the front paste down volume 4. A fair or better set.

Howes F 350; Nevins II - 57; Tall Cotton 62. Provenance from the estate of the Mitchell family in Atlanta, Georgia. A paper note marker laid inside volume 1 states "MM Reference."

Eugene Muse Mitchell (1866-1944) was born in Atlanta in 1866 to Russell Crawford Mitchell and Deborah Margaret Sweet. He graduated from the University of Georgia law school in 1886. He was an Atlanta attorney, co-founder of the Atlanta Historical Society, and father of Stephens Mitchell and Margaret Mitchell author of Gone With the Wind. His wife was Mary Isabel "Maybelle" Stephens.