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A Gone With the Wind presentation script signed by cast members, given to the mayor of Atlanta in 1961 MGM, 1939. Mimeographed manuscript, screenplay by Sidney Howard from the novel by Margaret Mitchell, 273 pp, dated January 24, 1939 and marked "Final Shooting Script" to script cover, with 4 pp of cast list and staff, bound in brown leather with "Gone With the Wind / Final Shooting Script / Presented to / Hon. William B. Hartsfield / Mayor of Atlanta" embossed in gilt to cover. On the front matter, the volume is inscribed and signed to Hartsfield: "March 10, 1961 / To Mayor William B. Hartsfield / With the affection and gratitude / of the 'Gone With the Wind' / company, including his admirers - / David O. Selznick" and signed ("Vivien Leigh," "Butterfly McQueen," "Olivia de Havilland," "Samuel Y. Tupper, Jr." [a friend of Mitchell's whose review of her novel was the first to be published], "Ogden Nash" [the humorist whom Selznick was considering to write the book for the planned Gone With the Wind musical], "Leroy Anderson" [one of America's premiere composers with whom Selznick was discussing the musical]), and more, with twenty 1-cent Margaret Mitchell stamps affixed to the frontispiece with a June 30, 1986 "First Day of Issue" stamp. Accompanied by an 8 x 10 in. photograph of Hartsfield with Vivien Leigh and others at the event. A superlative presentation commemorating the gala 1961 celebrations of the film and an indicator of the esteem in which Mayor Hartsfield was held in both Atlanta and Hollywood. Provenance: the collection of Tom Heyes. 8.75 x 11.25 x 2 in.