Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"

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Hardcover. A small archive of material from the early career of author Joyce Maynard consisting of a custom bound handwritten and hand-illustrated manuscript of a fable written when she was 13 years old; her corrected final galley proof of her first published book, *Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties*; and some accompanying correspondence between Maynard and her magazine publishers, with some additional material.

While in high school in New Hampshire, Maynard was an active contributor to magazines including *Seventeen*, *Woman's Day*, and *Good Housekeeping*. In 1972, while a freshman at Yale, *The New York Times Magazine* published a cover story by the waifish-looking Maynard, "An 18-Year Old Looks Back On Life," a world-weary account of a modern and seemingly representative teenager that was a sensation and that focused attention on her from editors, publishers, and filmmakers, and not insignificantly, from the author J.D. Salinger who wrote her an unsolicited fan letter. That letter spawned a correspondence that resulted in a yearlong romance, with Maynard moving in with the 53-year old literary legend.

While living with Salinger, then 19-year-old Maynard wrote her first published book *Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties*, which was an elaboration on her *Times* essay, and which was itself considered something of a Baby Boomer classic. The relationship soured within the year, and Maynard went on to write both nonfiction and fiction including the novels *To Die For* and *Labor Day*, both of which were made into films. She made headlines again when she auctioned the letters she had received from the obsessively private Salinger (he even once threatened to sue us for selling a document that he had signed!). Those letters were bought at the auction by software developer Peter Norton, who returned them to Salinger.

Maynard continues to write and reportedly has returned to Yale to complete the long-interrupted pursuit of her undergraduate degree.

The collection consists of:

1. MAYNARD, D[aphne]. Joyce. *[Holograph Illustrated Manuscript]: Rhapsody in Green. Written and Illustrated by D. Joyce Maynard. Age 13*. Octavo blank journal. 191 hand-numbered lined, but otherwise blank pages, approximately 60 of them used. Hand-drawn maps or key to the story on front pastedown and on one of the last pages, note on rear pastedown inked over (and partially readable). Blue leather stamped or stenciled with title and author's name on front board, with an original cover illustration. Handwritten text with illustrations and vignettes in color on nearly every page, some of them directly in the text and some pasted onto the pages of the journal. Some bleed-through in the text from the adhesive used to affix the drawings, but overall attractive and near fine. Laid in is a single orphaned leaf typed on both sides, which appears to be the beginning of another story, "A Bird in Bloom."

A story in 13 chapters apparently inspired by nine small ceramic figures of animal musicians, given to Maynard by her mother Fredelle, who was also a journalist and writer. Dedicated on the verso of the title page: "To My Mother, who bravely carried the nine musicians from Mexico to Boston on a hot summer day, and to Kurami, my head musician, who told this story to me. Written 1966." The action begins with the young and waif-like flute player Ariella, who is drawn by the music of the clay musicians to the remote hut of Naroli, from whom she is destined to take over his duties serving as the slave of Zanar, ruler of the verdant kingdom of Viridian. She is guided in her long journey by the clay musicians she carries with her, particularly Kurami. After many trials, they help her to escape from Zanar, and Ariella and the clay animals find refuge in Torelia, where they can be found under a beautiful tree, playing music - as it were, their "Rhapsody in Green." As we are not a 13 year old girl, we must admit that Maynard does a better job than we at conveying the action of the tale.

2. MAYNARD, Joyce. *Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties*. Garden City: Doubleday and Company, 1973. Corrected long galley proofs. Marked "Final Galley" in print at the top of each leaf. Folded. Moderate wear on first and last leaf, as usual with most long galleys, else near fine. Blue penciled notes in an editor's hand on both Galley 30 and Galley 37 noting that the next Galley was "not returned to us by floor" (presumably meaning the printers) and indeed the leaves marked Galley 31 and Galley 38 are lacking. The proofs display considerable work in several hands: a proofreader, a copy editor, a compositor, and very likely by the author, with additions and a full-page typed passage paperclipped into the galley with a note to include it, and additionally with excisions of text that did not appear in the text of the published book. Accompanied by the dustwrapper for the completed book with no obvious changes from the finished jacket art, but included as it came to us with the other material.

3. GREER, Rebecca E. Small correspondence of six letters from Greer, articles editor for *Woman's Day*, to Maynard discussing various proposed articles, with one retained carbon of Maynard's reply to Greer: "Please bear with me a little longer. I am planning decorations for the Junior Prom, rehearsing for a school performance of Macbeth, and applying to Exeter Academy for membership in their first co-ed class." Greer's letters to Maynard while she was a junior and later senior in high school are mostly about an article concerning teenagers transitioning away from home to summer activities and how that fits in with them eventually leaving home permanently.

4. GREER, Rebecca E. and others. Substantial correspondence of letters from Greer, articles editor for *Woman's Day*, and other editors at the magazine to journalist Fredelle Maynard (mother of Joyce Maynard) discussing various proposed articles, with extensive retained carbons of Fredelle's replies to Greer. Approximately 75 letters received by Fredelle and a similar number of retained responses. Fredelle wrote prolifically on family, motherhood, and health (she also ghostwrote the Dr. Joyce Brothers columns for *Good Housekeeping* in the 60s and 70s). Many of the articles discussed here would seem to be germane to the development of her daughter Joyce and her older sister Rona, as they are largely about raising daughters, dating, pre-marital chastity, feminism, relationships, affairs, and other topics then being more openly explored than they had been in previous years.

A substantive and very interesting accumulation of material centering on the early career of Joyce Maynard, who was at the center of the cultural phenomenon of the Baby Boom Generation.


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Item #434252 Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties" Joyce MAYNARD.
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"
Small Archive Related to Her Early Writings including the Bound Manuscript of a Fable written when she was 13 and her Corrected Galleys of her first published book, "Looking Back: Growing Up Old in the Sixties"