#uncorrected proof

[acknowledgetheabsurd]

Uncorrected Proof of Create Dangerously by Albert Camus. From my personal collection.

[syalassora]

The cover of this uncorrected proof of The Song of Achilles has me in a grip. The contents also do, the way the author describes the way Patroclus looks at Achilles. Argh my heart

[warriors-official-art]

Title: The Lost Warrior

Arc: Graystripe’s Adventure manga

Type: Proof Cover

Country: North America

Characters: Graystripe, Millie, Duke

Source: https://warriors.fandom.com/wiki/The_Lost_Warrior#Gallery

[myanimorphscollection]

Uncorrected proof for the 2011 relaunch cover of Animorphs The Visitor, compared with the stock image of the final cover (left) and the stock image of the original cover (right). The left image was the cover actually published, the right image was an early stock image only used in the uncorrected proof.

I posted the uncorrected proof for the 2011 relaunch cover of book #1 The Invasion here. That uncorrected proof cover is also different from the cover of the final published book. I believe there were only two uncorrected proofs made during the 2011-12 relaunch, and books #4-7 just went straight to publication (with the relaunch being cancelled after the ebook of book #8).

Sadly the seller of the above book apparently lost it or I would have bought and scanned it, but I assume I’ll come across a copy eventually. (I actually own two copies now of the uncorrected proof of the first book. Yay for library book sales).

[macrolit]

Anil’s Ghost (uncorrected proof), Michael Ondaatje

[acknowledgetheabsurd]

Uncorrected Proof of Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus. From my personal collection.

[sarah-maclean-completist]

[setokaibapetty]

Elements of Fiction - Walter Mosley

Too bad this is a review of an uncorrected proof I grabbed from a public bookcase because I could have pulled a bunch of quotes from this. There was a nice consolation prize though. A greater portion of the advanced copy was printed upside and had the advantage of letting me have a Luna Lovegood moment on the bus when I got to wink a kid who thought I was crazy because I was seemingly reading the book with the wrong side up.

Even though the chapters read like thematically connected essays; the book avoids the stiff formality common to essays. It doesn't expound on the author at all, but it feels revealing. It's practically an ode to the novel and writing. It makes you want to set to writing yourself as he turns over each element over and asks you to look at it through a different angle or some other light - what would happen if you tried a different context or narrator in your own fiction? And even if you have no desire to write yourself, this has interesting discussion about the considerations that (should) go into the creation of fiction (and includes the observation that university/writing sessions aren’t the only place where great writing can be found and/or fostered).