Works In Progress Number 1

1970 Mass PB. 306 pgs. The Literary Guild of America. No marks, clean pgs, binding good. Cover good with very light shelf wear. Very light tanning. Selection of chapters and parts of chapters from books scheduled for future publication, a fragment of a novel that will never be completed, the notebooks of a dead author, and a character sketch that served as a guideline during the writing of a screenplay. The aim of this book is to give readers an inside look at books in the making. Includes John le Carre, Nelson Algren, Isaac Bashevis Singer, James Purdy, Thomas Berger, Stanley Elkin, Muriel Rukeyser. 17 authors total.