Ventures In Editing

Description

A Fantastic and very rare book. This is a stated first edition of a limited issue of 274 numbered (the stated limitation, but the actual number issued was only 148) and 26 lettered and SIGNED copies. This copy is one of only 50 copies that were issued with the lettered issue limitation page but marked as "proof" (instead of a letter), and bound differently, in grayish red cloth, than the regular edition. Published in Huntington Beach, CA by James Cahill in 1995, this copy is signed on the limitation page by the author. The condition is fine (like new), in the slip case, as issued. Ventures in Editing “seeks to accomplish only one thing: to allow the reader to watch how a writer, in this case me, composes a manuscript that says with great accuracy everything I wanted to say at that moment.” To that end, the book presents two articles by Michener, “My Advice to Young America” and “The Writer and His Machine,” each in two different versions: the author’s first draft and the final, edited copy. Though there were to be 274 numbered copies in addition to the lettered copies, only 148 were actually signed; 50 proof copies of the lettered edition were printed in addition to the 26 actual lettered copies.