Author: Gardner, John
Title: Original typed manuscript of Gardner's "Foreword" to the planned publication of MSS: A Retropective
Description: First Edition. 0 pp. Six 8.5" x 11" typed pages in fine condition with three holograph corrections in Gardner's hand. While the manscript is unsigned, it is accompanied by the envelope addressed by Gardner with his signature in the return address place.The essay tells a brief history of the magazine, MSS, Gardner's attitude toward editing, his interaction with authors (particularly in this essay John Hawkes), and other matters. The book that this essay was to serve as the forward was never published. Fine.

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