Word: manuscripts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Referring to William Manchester's The Death of a President, you write [Dec. 23]: "25 copies of the manuscript were sent to six magazines." The fact is, seven copies were simultaneously submitted, one each to the five magazines you list and, in response to a special request, two copies to LIFE. Your report implies that this agency submitted a copy to United Artists. No copies were submitted to United Artists or any other motion picture company...
Gutenberg Bibles are rare as the printings of William Caxton, the first Englishman to set his language in movable type. Both are as common as telephone books compared to a handwritten Caxton manuscript. When the Englishman's 15th century translation of the first nine books of the Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses, a series of moralizing fables, was sold at auction in London's Sotheby's (TIME, July 8), the illustrated gem fetched $252,000-a record high for any book ever sold to the public. A New York dealer bought it, and the 272-page...
...Revue and the Danish daily Berlingske Tidende are going ahead with plans to publish the uncut original, which will certainly appear shortly thereafter in the U.S. Even so, attorneys met daily in Manhattan to work out a Look-like settlement with Harper & Row, publishers of the 300,000-word manuscript. Reporting "steady progress," they agreed to postpone until mid-January last week's scheduled hearing on whether Harper & Row should be temporarily prevented from publishing the book. If no agreement has been reached by then, the matter will go to trial. In any case, the publishers promised that...
...series of implausible events leads to the bedroom of a 17-year-old seductress with a powerful allure: the unpublished novel of an obscure ecclesiastical essayist. Adam prefers the manuscript to the girl, who presents herself to him unexpurgated and not even in a plain wrapper. It should be a funny scene, but, like most of the situations, it flags quickly...
...writing was as impeded as his health. Publishers recoiled from the ferocity and strangeness of his work. Printers refused to set his more gamy passages in type. The husband of one of Joyce's typists was so outraged by the manuscript of Ulysses that he set it on fire. Joyce, in turn, railed against the narrowness of the "chaste and castrated English-speaking world...