What is "typescripts"

Usage examples of "typescripts".

The room is meant to look like business premises, but there are too many piles of dusty typescripts on a side table, too many unsightly photographs of authors (men scruffy and dishevelled, in turtle-necks and jeans, women, many of decidedly unattrac­tive mien, wearing huge spectacles, some holding cats), too much literary mess and too powerful a stench of good, but pungent, cigars.

Additionally, copies of a few typescripts now in private hands were also generously supplied by their present owners.

By applying the above methods to the surviving typescripts, a much different conclusion is reached.

The stories have been checked either against Howard’s original typescripts, copies of which were furnished by Glenn Lord and Terence McVicker, or the first published appearance if a typescript was unavailable.

Unless the original typescripts ever surface, Howard’s carbons offer by far the purest available text for many of the Conan stories.

A comparison of the few later Conan stories for which definitive typescripts survive and their published versions shows that Wright systematically censored lines of dialogue that he deemed too “sensual.

First, I didn’t read any unsolicited typescripts: according to my lawyers, these should always be returned immediately to the sender.

When correcting galleys and typescripts, he would insert words and small phrases by hand, but he preferred to lay in new material in typed strips cut with scissors.

Following John Toole's death, his estate was appraised at $8,000 by a lawyer's inventory that made no mention of the typescripts of two novels.

There one might legitimately scrape up ac­quaintance with notables, so as later to be in a favorable position to offer them modest sums for their hand-corrected proofs, typescripts (a surprising number of science-fiction writers still refused to process their words), autographed first editions, or literary curiosa of a marketable sort.

The stories have been checked either against Howard’s original typescripts, copies of which were furnished by Glenn Lord, or the first published appearance if a typescript was unavailable.