Autograph draft manuscript, and final typescript. With additional draft typescript material, some related correspondence between Ballard and the publisher, and a set of corrected page proofs.
Complete draft text in autograph manuscript, in blue ink. The manuscript is here divided into ten files. Chapters do not always begin at the head of a new sheet of paper.
Various numbered sheets in typescript. A comparison between this typescript text and the complete typescript (Add MS 88938/3/19/4), suggests that these sheets are from an earlier stage in the revision process, although the differences are not substantial. Thus, on sheet 268 (Chapter 19), 'he clu...
1. 7 May, 1996. Fax from the Press Office, Spanish Embassy (24 Belgrave Square London) to Claire Walsh, listing ten Centros Penitenciaros (Madrid, Malaga, Lugo, Sevilla, Murcia Alava and Toledo). 2 sheets. 2. 7 May, 1996. Fax from Malcolm Edwards [Harper Collins] to Ballard, referring to his [e...
Chapters 10-12, ordered and numbered by the author. The text includes inserted sheets (such as 288A) that are usually smaller than the main text (which is A4). Chapter 10: 288A-B, 288-93, 293A-D, 294, 294A, 295-6, 296A (includes insert 296B), 297-303, 303A-B, 304, 305AB, 305, 305A, 306-7, 307A,...
Chapters 13-15, ordered and numbered by the author. The text includes inserted sheets (such as 381A) that are usually smaller than the main text (which is A4). Chapter 13: 380, 381A-C, 381-7, 387A, 388-91, 391A-F, 392-6, [there are no sheets numbered 397-401], 402-3, 403A, 404-7, 407B, 408-14, ...
Chapters 16-18, ordered and numbered by the author. The text includes inserted sheets (such as 465A) that are usually smaller than the main text (which is A4). Chapter 16: 462-5, 465A, 466-7, 467A, 467AA, 468-70, 470A, 470AA, 470B, 471-7, 477A, 478-82, 482A, 483-9, 489A, 490-4, 494A-B, 495-6. ...
Chapters 19-21, ordered and numbered by the author. The text includes inserted sheets (such as 590A) that are usually smaller than the main text (which is A4). Chapter 19: 589-90, 590A, 591-3, 593A, 594-6, 596A-B, 597-8, 598A, 599-607, 607A, 608-14, 614A, 615, 615A-B, 616-20, 621A, 621-2, 623A,...