Autograph draft manuscript, in blue ink. Here divided into six files, each file subdivided within by chapter. Note: since the manuscript is written continuously, chapters do not usually begin at the head of a new sheet.
A complete typescript with editorial corrections (not in Ballard's hand), and incorporating Ballard's revisions from 'Typescript 1'. Here divided into three files.
The Day of Creation (Typescript 3, with Editor's Notes)
Scope & Content:
Editor's notes, and a third typescript, annotated in accordance with editor's notes, with very occasional small additional changes in Ballard's hand to the text.
Page proofs (two printed pages per sheet) of the first edition: London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1987. With occasional corrections throughout in Ballard's hand.