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Book collecting -- United States

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 351 Collections and/or Records:

Woolmer to Dennis McCarthy. Photocopy, 2 pages, May 15, 1995

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 8
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Proving fair market appraisals of three signed McCarthy books.

Dates: May 15, 1995
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-092, Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to Editions Robert Laffont. Photocopy, 1 page, May 4, 1993

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 8
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Inquiring about French editions.

Dates: May 4, 1993
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-092, Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to Ken Lopez. Carbon, 1 page, April 4, 1988

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 7
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Inquiring about advance copies of Outer Dark and Child of God.

Dates: April 4, 1988
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-092, Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy, May 25, 1993

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 8
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Update on All the Pretty Horses printings.

Dates: May 25, 1993
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-092, Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, July 29, 1969

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 1
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Praising Outer Dark and asking if McCarthy will inscribe books.

Dates: July 29, 1969
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-092, Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, August 20, 1969

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 1
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Asking about foreign editions, and promising a complimentary subscription to Works, a magazine that Woolmer had a hand in publishing.

Dates: August 20, 1969
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-092, Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, September 9, 1969

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 1
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Thanking for inscribed books.

Dates: September 9, 1969
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-092, Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, April 28, 1973

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 1
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Inquiring about purchasing manuscripts, corrected galleys, etc. of The Orchard Keeper and Outer Dark.

Dates: April 28, 1973
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-092, Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, July 23, 1973

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 1
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Asking for an inventory of manuscripts in order to make an offer.

Dates: July 23, 1973
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-092, Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, January 22, 1974

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 2
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Praising Child of God. Includes duplicates of newspaper clippings enclosed with the letter.

Dates: January 22, 1974
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-092, Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, March 15, 1973

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 2
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Sending Child of God for signature. Mentions the possibility of McCarthy’s papers going to a university library.

Dates: March 15, 1973
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-092, Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, November 15, 1976

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 2
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Mentioning PBS advertisement in NY Times for The Gardeners Son. Requests a copy of the script. [Copy of NY Times ad included.]

Dates: November 15, 1976
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-092, Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, January 7, 1977

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 2
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Sending the Miller-Fraenkel book; discussing the reviews of The Gardener’s Son; and asking about early works in preparation for a possible bibliography [as yet unpublished]. Corresponding New York Times advertisement for the PBS Visions series, and a November / December 1976 issue of Coda: Poets and Writers Newsletter with mention of the series on p. 9.

Dates: January 7, 1977
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-092, Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, January 9, 1979

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 3
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Thanking him for typescript and asking to have it signed. Suggests Woolmer/Brotherson publish a limited signed edition of “Burial” [previously published in Antaeus].

Dates: January 9, 1979
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-092, Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, March 10, 1979

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 3
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Regarding Suttree, which he does not like as much as McCarthy’s other works, but feels it is still “miles ahead of anything being written by any other writer.” Asks if McCarthy uses a typewriter; discusses possibility of publishing McCarthy’s “western.”

Dates: March 10, 1979
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-092, Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy, Carbon, 1 page, May 18, 1979

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 3
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Providing details of publishing history.

Dates: May 18, 1979
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-092, Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy Carbon, 1 page, June 22, 1979

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 3
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Regarding publishing an excerpt of Blood Meridian.

Dates: June 22, 1979
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-092, Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, October 31, 1979

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 3
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Regarding cancelled trip to Vanderbilt and response received from Albert Erskine.

Dates: October 31, 1979
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-092, Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, March 5, 1980

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 4
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Informing him that Robert Penn Warren considers McCarthy a “most talented writer.” Recommends the film Wise Blood.

Dates: March 5, 1980
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-092, Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, May 19, 1980

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 4
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Sending May 2, 1980 TLS review of Suttree [review included].

Dates: May 19, 1980
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-092, Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence