Margaret Mitchell collection of (2) personal scrapbooks with annotations, clippings and a 16mm promo film. ...

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Margaret Mitchell collection of (2) personal scrapbooks with annotations, clippings and a 16mm promo film. Margaret Mitchell collection of (2) personal scrapbooks with annotations, clippings and a 16mm promo film. Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (Nov. 8, 1900 - Aug. 16, 1949) is best known for her iconic American Civil-War novel Gone With The Wind, for which she won the 1936 National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel as well as the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Including: (2) Scrapbooks (1) 9 x 11.5 in. with The Season Of The Blossoms postcard tipped to the front cover and (1) 13 x 11 in. scrapbook with 2-ring snap binder. Containing newspaper articles tipped to pages as well as loose articles, including: Hollywood blurbs about the author, sales figures, reviews, fashion ads influenced by the book, political cartoons, casting new, notices of the author's awards, etc. Many articles dated and annotated in the author's hand, (1) Collection of various newspaper and magazine articles on Gone With the Wind and the author's passing (1) Complete sheet of 100 1-cent postage stamps with the author's image, (1) Copy of the Atlanta Historical Bulletin Margaret Mitchell Memorial Issue, (1) 16mm film reel for "Author Meets the Critics: Gone with the Wind", 1950. This posthumous review of "Gone with the Wind" is featured in a 20 minute production, with sound, including J. M. McKaffery and Truman Capote. Scrapbook pages have come loose from their bindings. Newspaper articles show age and some edge crumbling. Overall content in vintage good condition.

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