TYPESCRIPT: Jordanstown. With first edition.
WORKING TYPESCRIPT
Johnson, Josephine. Typescript: Jordanstown. 1936.
8vo.; 203 numbered ribbon typescript leaves, arranged in sections with brads and paperclips; rectos only; manuscript insertions on occasional versos; a few inserts on different paper stock.
Working typescript for Johnson’s second novel, titled and signed in her hand, bearing her annotations and revisions throughout, as well as editorial suggestions. This iteration of the text includes in a number of substantial passages ultimately deleted prior to publication, and many other significant variations.
Johnson’s first novel, Now in November (1934), won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and this novel is a recurring point of reference in the chief consideration of American labor novels of the 1930s.
Johnson drew much of the background for her fiction from her experiences covering strikes and relief conditions in Missouri, and was president of the Consumers' Co-Operative in 1938.
Accompanied by a copy of the published book, first edition, very good in dust jacket.
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