MS 450 01 01 19
Reference code
MS 450 01 01 19
Title
The Douglas Rutherford collection: Drafts for 'Collision Course'
Level
File
Date
1977-1980
Extent & medium
8 items
Content description
Drafts for Rutherford's novel originally published in 1978.
Including a corrected manuscript, 257pp., dated July 1977; a corrected typescript, written under the original title 'Take the Escape Road', and including some manuscript papes; a further typescript containing surplus and amended pages (with pages not in numerical order); a corrected proof displaying the change of title to 'Escape Road', with a mixture of typescript and manuscript pages with insertions, and including a manuscript note by Rutherford to say it is 'my hand-amended copy'; and a typescript (setting copy) 162pp. showing the change of title to 'Collision Course'.
Also included are various published copies of the novel including, UK first edition (London: Macmillian, 1978), handback with dust-jacket; and a large print UK edition (Bath: Lythway Press, 1980), hardback with dust-jacket; and a later UK edition (London: Magnum Books (Methuen), 1980)
Including a corrected manuscript, 257pp., dated July 1977; a corrected typescript, written under the original title 'Take the Escape Road', and including some manuscript papes; a further typescript containing surplus and amended pages (with pages not in numerical order); a corrected proof displaying the change of title to 'Escape Road', with a mixture of typescript and manuscript pages with insertions, and including a manuscript note by Rutherford to say it is 'my hand-amended copy'; and a typescript (setting copy) 162pp. showing the change of title to 'Collision Course'.
Also included are various published copies of the novel including, UK first edition (London: Macmillian, 1978), handback with dust-jacket; and a large print UK edition (Bath: Lythway Press, 1980), hardback with dust-jacket; and a later UK edition (London: Magnum Books (Methuen), 1980)
Location of this record in the archive hierarchy
Click the hyperlinked text below for further details.
(Click here to scroll to the current record within the hierarchy)
Number 19 of 25 at this Level
Beneath this record in the archive hierarchy
None