Box JM001 Box 8
Container
Contains 22 Results:
James Wilcox's editing
Sub-Series — Box: JM001 Box 8, Folder: 208
Identifier: Sub-Series I.51
Scope and Contents
"Erskine has a young assistant editor named James Wilcox, from Yale and with a sharp eye for detail. Because this manuscript was so fragmented, Erskine wanted some one extra person to read for comprehension and consistency. Wilcox proved invaluable in asking the nagging questions that readers often ask, and thanks to his acute vision we clarified many points which were quite clear to me, but because of my predilection for ellipsis---I really like it and the stylistic modification it...
Dates:
1970 - 1978; Existence: 1972 - 1978
Essay on Centennial published by Random House
Sub-Series — Box: JM001 Box 8, Folder: 210-217
Identifier: Sub-Series I.52
Scope and Contents
"In the latter days of galley proof, it became apparent that this book was going to receive some attention, and it was the desire of the company to launch it as effectively as possible. Therefore, the proposal was made to me that Random House bring out a special publication consisting of 64 pages of new material, well presented, with full-color end papers, some illustrative material, and an essay about the book by me. The resulting publication, well bound and boxed, would be offered to two...
Dates:
1970 - 1978; Existence: 1972 - 1978
World Starvation Program
Sub-Series — Box: JM001 Box 8, Folder: 218-219
Identifier: Sub-Series I.53
Scope and Contents
"In the middle of a crushing schedule some United Nations people, some World Population people and some experts on world food supplies met with me to enlist my support for a crisis program to alert the nations of the world to the probability of widespread starvation in the years immediately ahead. I stopped what I was doing to help, and we put together a striking group of signatories. I wish I had the time to do more work on this program, for I admire greatly the work Norman Borlaug, a man I...
Dates:
1970 - 1978; Existence: 1972 - 1978
Specialist printing house galley
Sub-Series — Box: JM001 Box 8, Folder: 220
Identifier: Sub-Series I.54
Scope and Contents
"When the galleys of a book have been completed by the printer, and before any editor does a day's work on them, they are turned over to a specialist printing house, whose people line the galleys up in workable segments, photostat them in the present guise, and bind them together with a rubber-cement backing and an improvised cover. These are the so-called bound galleys, and distribution of them becomes a tremendous tug-of-war. The publisher always orders fewer copies than he really needs,...
Dates:
1970 - 1978; Existence: 1972 - 1978
Blank-page dummy
Sub-Series — Box: JM001 Box 8, Folder: 221
Identifier: Sub-Series I.55
Scope and Contents
"When the length of a manuscript has been pretty well calculated, manufacturing makes up a blank-page dummy with which to show the salesmen what the book will more or less look like. This one was made with the precise paper we shall be using, the style of binding and the type of cover. It is, however, thirty-two pages longer than the final product, and therefore just a little thicker. I'm told that when the salesmen heard that it was to be somewhat thinner, they said, 'It won't look like a...
Dates:
1970 - 1978; Existence: 1972 - 1978
Photos of principal people who worked on Centennial
Sub-Series — Box: JM001 Box 8, Folder: 222
Identifier: Sub-Series I.56
Scope and Contents
"Photographs of the principal people who worked on the manuscript: Albert Erskine, Bert Krantz, Toni Krass, and Jean-Paul Tremblay."
Dates:
1970 - 1978; Existence: 1972 - 1978
Centennial publicity releases
Sub-Series — Box: JM001 Box 8, Folder: 223
Identifier: Sub-Series I.57
Scope and Contents
"Publicity releases prior to the publication of the novel. These are terribly important to the publisher, since with them he hopes to establish good word-of-mouth on the book. These are the first intimations the writer receives as to what others think of his completed manuscript, but if he is wise he remembers that they are the output of people with an ax to grind in relation to the book. The same things would be said, more or less, regardless of the merit of the book. Nevertheless, the...
Dates:
1970 - 1978; Existence: 1972 - 1978
Cast of final version of page 865
Sub-Series — Box: JM001 Box 8, Folder: 224
Identifier: Sub-Series I.58
Scope and Contents
"A cast of the final version of Page 865. It is from this plate that the book is printed. Note: Two copies of the sheet on which this page appears are included in the big role of uncut sheets, #59."
Dates:
1970 - 1978; Existence: 1972 - 1978
Roll of uncut random sheets
Sub-Series — Box: JM001 Box 8, Folder: 225
Identifier: Sub-Series I.59
Scope and Contents
"A large roll of uncut sheets, selected at random, showing how 32 pages of the book are printed at one time, backed up by another 32 pages, so that one full sheet contains 64 book pages."
Dates:
1970 - 1978; Existence: 1972 - 1978
Jacket proofs
Sub-Series — Box: JM001 Box 8, Folder: 226
Identifier: Sub-Series I.60
Scope and Contents
"Jacket proofs."
Dates:
1970 - 1978; Existence: 1972 - 1978