Taylor Caldwell — The Balance Wheel — Signed 3-Volume Typed Manuscript / Typescript — 1024 Pages

Signed three-volume typed manuscript/typescript of Taylor Caldwell’s novel The Balance Wheel, totaling 1,024 typed pages. The covers bear the imprint of the William Morris Agency, Rockefeller Center, 1270 Sixth Avenue, New York 20, N.Y. Signed by Taylor Caldwell.

The first typed page shows evidence of a now-erased note to Caldwell, apparently initialed “L.B.” While the writer of the note has not been identified, the William Morris Agency covers and internal note suggest agency handling or circulation.

The page count is especially notable: the University of Florida’s Creative Writing Collection lists Caldwell’s The Balance Wheel typescript material as “620, 1024 l., 28 cm,” with two typescripts and autograph revisions, published by Scribner in 1951. This copy’s 1,024-page count closely corresponds to that institutional record.

An unusual and potentially significant Taylor Caldwell item, of interest to collectors of signed literary manuscripts, 20th-century American fiction, literary agency material, publishing history, and mid-century American literature.

Buffalo connection: Taylor Caldwell had a long and meaningful connection to Buffalo. Born in England, she came to the United States with her family in 1907 and settled in Buffalo, where she lived for much of her life. Before becoming a bestselling novelist, she worked in Buffalo government offices, including the New York State Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Justice’s immigration-related Board of Special Inquiry, while also attending the University of Buffalo, from which she graduated in 1931. This Buffalo association adds a strong local-history dimension to the manuscript, especially for Western New York collectors.