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Northridge: Lord John, 1986. The author's hand-corrected galley proofs for the 1986 book. In what is a testament to Updike's concentrated editorial meticulousness, each of the forty-three pages bears multiple additions, emendations, spelling and punctuation corrections, and other rewritings of the text -- some several hundred examples in all. Updike returns to the town in which he grew up after an absence of fifty years, eliciting an extended heartfelt remembrance of the time of his youth. Laid in is a TLS from Updike to the book's publisher: "When do you want to do the Shillington piece? I can send the ms. any time." About as close to an Updike book-length manuscript as one can hope to encounter. Fine. Housed in a custom-made cloth folding box.
Northridge: Lord John, 1986. The author's hand-corrected galley proofs for the 1986 book. In what is a testament to Updike's concentrated editorial meticulousness, each of the forty-three pages bears multiple additions, emendations, spelling and punctuation corrections, and other rewritings of the text -- some several hundred examples in all. Updike returns to the town in which he grew up after an absence of fifty years, eliciting an extended heartfelt remembrance of the time of his youth. Laid in is a TLS from Updike to the book's publisher: "When do you want to do the Shillington piece? I can send the ms. any time." About as close to an Updike book-length manuscript as one can hope to encounter. Fine. Housed in a custom-made cloth folding box.