Honours Even [author's typescript, proofreader's marked set and dust jacket]

[ff]2 ff 385 [ff]1. Full length authorial typescript of Tranter's novel 'Honours Even', the story of Scotland's brave stand against Oliver Comwell. Typed by the author who entitles his book "-Honours Even- A Novel by Nigel Tranter'. Minor authorial corrections throughout. The typescript is bound in a homemade white card cover sheet, hole punched and tied with a white cord. Along with the main text the author has added a 'Possible Blurb for Honours Even' which differs substantially from that which was printed on the first edition dust jacket. Accompanied by [ff358] the proofreader's marked set which was checked by Kate Lyall Grant of publishers Hodder, and a proof dust jacket of the first edition. Nigel Tranter's normal method of composition was described in his Guardian obituary thus: 'Each morning he would leave his house in East Lothian and begin a long walk... In stout boots, flat cap and sensible tweeds, he looked just like any other bird-watcher but for one oddity: in his hands he carried small sheets of paper, protected by a polythene bag in inclement weather. By the time he returned home some 12 miles later, he would have completed another 1,000 words of his next book. Then, with few corrections, the work would be typed up on a venerable Imperial typewriter.'