Macdonald, Ross. (Pseudonym of Kenneth Millar). "THE ENDLESS CITY; EIGHT SPIRAL-BOUND PLANNING NOTEBOOKS".

The handwritten manuscript of what would be published as "The Wycherly Woman" in 1961. More than 300 handwritten pages that document the author's painstaking efforts to bring the novel to term. The notebooks reveal abandoned sequences, numerous word-changes, and switches in narrative direction as Macdonald struggles again and again with the heavily plotted narrative.

From the library of a deceased book collector. Unquestionably rare since the bulk of Ross Macdonald's papers repose in the University of California Library at Irvine. Housed in a custom-made cloth slipcase with a matching chemise.

A comparison of the text in the notebooks with that of the published book shows Macdonald's deftness of composition in adapting the manuscript notes into what became a skillfully plotted novel.