AUTHOR’S PROOF SHEETS filled with CORRECTIONS, CHANGES, DELETIONS, ADDITIONS, INSTRUCTIONS and COMMENTS by the AUTHOR, MARY MORRIS.
 
This is AN ORIGINAL WORKING COPY of the AUTHOR’S TYPESCRIPT PROOF SHEETS with HOLOGRAPHIC CHANGES. These are photocopied proof sheets (as normal in the publishing world), with both the Typescript and the Holographic Changes photocopied (i.e. the hand written changes are not unique to this copy).  This copy was likely made by Mary Morris to send to HER EDITOR / PUBLISHER, keeping the original set with her original hand changes for herself.

The publisher was DAVID R. GODINE. I found at least one page of these proof sheets with holographic instructions from the Author directly to the Publisher:
 
“David: please make sure copyeditor changes all 'Joffee' to 'Berger' and all 'Davis' to 'Jensen' I can’t believe I used real people’s names. That is, what happens...”
 
Approximately 225 loose 8.5x11 inch sheets, printing and corrections on one side only.
 
This corrected typescript does not contain every page of the book, it appears that some pages that had no changes were left out. The pages are arranged by story (this is a book of stories).

The sheets are in generally GOOD condition, creasing and toning to the first few sheets, signs of handling to all sheets, copy-machine type smudges and marks, overall the pages remain bright and clear. A wonderful set of author corrected proofs.
 
VANISHING ANIMALS was MARY MORRIS’S FIRST BOOK. This set of AUTHOR’S PROOFS with HOLOGRAPHIC CHANGES is certainly one of the most interesting and hard-to-find Mary Morris items.

 
About MARY MORRIS (from Wikipedia):
 
******Mary Morris (born May 14, 1947 in Chicago) is an American author. Morris published her first book, a collection of short stories, entitled Vanishing Animals & Other Stories, in 1979 at the age of thirty-two and was awarded the Rome Prize in Literature by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She has gone on to publish numerous collections of short stories, novels, and travel memoirs. She has also edited with her husband, the author Larry O'Connor, an anthology of women's travel literature, entitled Maiden Voyages, subsequently published as The Virago Book of Women Travellers.
 
Morris was born to Sol Morris and Rosalie Morris. They married quite late and were often mistaken for Mary's grandparents. She was raised on the North Shore of Lake Michigan in the suburb of Highland Park in Chicago, Illinois. At the time she was growing up, Highland Park was woodland and, as a child, she roamed its ravines and wandered its waterfront. Her earliest short stories are derived from these memories. She often rode horses through cornfields not far from her house. After a fairly rural childhood, she went east to attend Tufts College. She spent her junior year abroad in Paris in 1968. After college she worked at the Beacon Press for a few years, began graduate school at Harvard, then transferred to Columbia University in New York City where she did the bulk of her graduate work and began writing stories.
 
Though Morris never returned to the Midwest for long, she often writes about the region and its tug. Many of her short stories and her early novels have been set in an imaginary town called Winona along the banks of Lake Michigan. While Morris is known for her numerous travel articles and memoirs set in far-off places, her roots remain in the Midwest. She feels drawn there and has an affinity for Midwestern writers such as Willa Cather who wrote her stories of the Middle West from afar. She now lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and daughter, and teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College.
 
In her FIRST COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, VANISHING ANIMALS & OTHER STORIES (published by David Godine, 1979), Morris writes about childhood and adolescent memories. The Chicago Tribune called Morris "a marvelous storyteller-a budding Isaac Bashevis Singer, a young Doris Lessing, a talent to be watched and read".
 
In 1980 Morris received the George W. Perkins fellowship from the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University. After her year as a fellow, she taught in the creative writing program until 1993 where she was colleagues with such writers as Joyce Carol Oates (who has remained a close friend), Russell Banks, Paul Auster, and Haruki Murakami (who mentions Morris in his memoir about running).******