Will Self: Great Apes ('Bound Manuscript Limited Edition')
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Soft-covers (Bloomsbury), signed by the author on the front cover. Described on the back cover as 'an uncorrected unedited typescript' in advance of publication.
Will Self: Works by others (Nicholas Papadimitriou)
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(1). Two long poems or poem sequences, 'Cul-de-Sac (11 sheets, 1975-89) and 'Argument' (11 sheets). (2). A series of prose pieces about London, the first two pages of which have been edited/annotated by Self in pencil [annotation c 2005].
(1). 'Lolita'. Undated essay in photocopy typescript (some corrections by hand within the copy), pp. 1-12. An early version of Amis's 'Introduction' to the Everyman edition (1992) of Nabokov's novel.(2). 'The Information'. Bound photocopy typescript (corrected and annotated throughout in black in...
(1). Printed drawings (1996) prepared as illustrations for The Sweet Smell of Psychosis. Eleven items (not every illustration) including some duplicates (all A3 sheets). All black and white except the cover image: Unfinished illustration, equivalent to illustration facing p. 34 (Bloomsbury, 1996...
(1). 10 Jun 2010, Mills to Self (1 sheet), enclosing 'sample material' from The Secret Quiddity of the W.S.C. Murders. With Self's reply, 7 Jul 2010 (1 sheet). (2). Mills, excerpt from The W.S.C. Murders (pp. 1-59), described by Mills as 'a quirky, comic literary novel which aims to be the litera...
Spiral-bound copy of the screenplay for The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman. Identified as 'First Draft' and dated December 2010. Brief annotated message from Robinson on the title-page. Unmarked, title-page and pp. 1-131.