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Something out there : typescript, signed : [Johannesburg], [1982 Dec.-1983 Jan.].

BIB_ID
195276
Accession number
MA 4710
Creator
Gordimer, Nadine.
Display Date
[1982 Dec.-1983 Jan.].
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, special gift of Walter S. Rosenberry, Samuel R. Rosenthal, and Ann Tanenbaum, 1991.
Description
1 item (160 p.), unbound ; 29.6 cm
Notes
Includes autograph revisions, supplementary notes, and a typed cover letter, stating, "This is the complete original typescript, with handwritten changes etc., of my short novel, SOMETHING OUT THERE. It was published under this title, along with some short stories, by Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, in 1984. Included are pages of discarded versions of several passages, and handwritten notes dealing with facts to be checked. This is not a typed version of a handwritten manuscript; I work directly on an old Hermes Baby typewriter." With copyright notice: "SOMETHING OUT THERE is c 1984 Nadine Gordimer and no part of this typescript may be reproduced, in any form, without permission of the author."
Includes introductory matter: 2 pages; body of text: 125 pages numbered [1] 2-31 31b 32-47 47b 47c 47d 47e 48-120; discarded passages: 28 p.; queries: 4 p.; and 1 small autograph page.
No reproduction without the author's permission (see typed cover letter).
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (31.7 cm).