SOUTHERN, TERRY. Autograph and typed manuscripts of the sardonic novel The Magic Christian (first published 1959), comprising: (1) Original working draft, 150 pages plus typed title-page, nearly all small folio (57 holograph pages, 92 typed pages), with heavy revisions in blue and black inks, portions of a few typed pages with revisions stapled over sections of holograph pages, possibly a few pages of the printed text not represented in this draft ; (2) The setting copy typescript, 85 pages, 4to, double-spaced, paginated 11-95 (complete), with some light authorial revisions in holograph and with extensive editiorial corrections and directions to the printer in blue pencil ; and (3) A group of 21 pages containing text not used in the book, folio (13 holograph pages, 8 typed pages), with heavy holograph revisions. Together 256 pages, 4to-folio, in acetate folders tied at left edges to form fascicles, contained in four cloth folding sectionals within two red half morocco folding cases with snaps. " The Magic Christian is a short conte in which Guy Grand, a 'fabulous' billionaire, sets out to prove that every one has his price and will perform any exploit, however scatalogical or malodorous, if you have enough money to pay for it" ( The Penguin Companion to American Literature , 1971, p. 237). In one of the more biting episodes -- not unreflective of the decade of the '80s and of certain aspects of the rare book and manuscript business today -- Grand buries money under a gigantic pile of manure soaked with blood and urine, advertises "Free Dollars," and stands back to watch the fun. The black-humorist Southern's first book was Candy (Paris 1955), a parody of Candide and of pornographic and salacious writing in general; this was followed by Flash and Filigree (1958), The Magic Christian (1959), and Red Dirt Marijuana (1967), a book of essays/articles recently reprinted with the blurb "Before there was Hunter S. Thompson, there was Terry Southern." He also collaborated on the film script for Dr. Strangelove (1963), and on the screenplay for the movie of The Magic Christian (1970), starring Ringo Starr Peter Sellars et al .
SOUTHERN, TERRY. Autograph and typed manuscripts of the sardonic novel The Magic Christian (first published 1959), comprising: (1) Original working draft, 150 pages plus typed title-page, nearly all small folio (57 holograph pages, 92 typed pages), with heavy revisions in blue and black inks, portions of a few typed pages with revisions stapled over sections of holograph pages, possibly a few pages of the printed text not represented in this draft ; (2) The setting copy typescript, 85 pages, 4to, double-spaced, paginated 11-95 (complete), with some light authorial revisions in holograph and with extensive editiorial corrections and directions to the printer in blue pencil ; and (3) A group of 21 pages containing text not used in the book, folio (13 holograph pages, 8 typed pages), with heavy holograph revisions. Together 256 pages, 4to-folio, in acetate folders tied at left edges to form fascicles, contained in four cloth folding sectionals within two red half morocco folding cases with snaps. " The Magic Christian is a short conte in which Guy Grand, a 'fabulous' billionaire, sets out to prove that every one has his price and will perform any exploit, however scatalogical or malodorous, if you have enough money to pay for it" ( The Penguin Companion to American Literature , 1971, p. 237). In one of the more biting episodes -- not unreflective of the decade of the '80s and of certain aspects of the rare book and manuscript business today -- Grand buries money under a gigantic pile of manure soaked with blood and urine, advertises "Free Dollars," and stands back to watch the fun. The black-humorist Southern's first book was Candy (Paris 1955), a parody of Candide and of pornographic and salacious writing in general; this was followed by Flash and Filigree (1958), The Magic Christian (1959), and Red Dirt Marijuana (1967), a book of essays/articles recently reprinted with the blurb "Before there was Hunter S. Thompson, there was Terry Southern." He also collaborated on the film script for Dr. Strangelove (1963), and on the screenplay for the movie of The Magic Christian (1970), starring Ringo Starr Peter Sellars et al .
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