The research about McCarthy books would be impossible without the help of many people, collectors, bookdealers, scholars, publishers, friends of Cormac, librarians, auctioneers who have been helping for several years. My deep thanks go to all of them. My apologies If I forgot someone.
Emma Bravo and Elly Crookes, hugely helped allowing me to get information from Picador records; Scott Brown, bookdealer who shared his important article about forgeries of McCarthy’s books; David Cunningham, owner of Ulysses Rare Books; Michael Di Ruggero, bookdealer and friend, sold to me the best letter I know by McCarthy; Cinthya Farah Haines, photographer and McCarthy’s friend kindly shared memories and a gorgeous unpublished photographic portrait of Cormac; Gary Fiskjeton, former publisher at Vintage and Knopf and McCarthy’s editor answered with endless patience my questions and shared key, first hand information; Paul Ford, longtime friend and passionate collector: his invaluable advice has supported me for years; Peyton Gupton, collector from Knoxville; Philip Horowitz, collector and friend; Jerry Kelleher, bookdealer; Ken Lopez, well known bookdealer, helped to build my collection and to clean it from forgeries; Dianne C. Luce, prominent McCarthy scholar and friend: without her eye opening book “Embracing vocation”, her advice and her generosity this research wouldn’t be possible; Wesley Morgan, scholar and passionate researcher of McCarthy’s Knoxville and circle, a wonderful mine of information which he generously shared with me; Amir Naghib, smart bookdealer and old friend who has been trading books and sharing sharp observations with me for fifteen years; Katie Salzmann, Lead Archivist at Albert B. Alkek Library, Texas State University, San Marcos, for her competence, kindness and lightening advices; Peter Strauss, former Publisher at Picador who provided important information; Darren Sutherland at Bonhams; Diana Tesdell, writer and editor at Vintage; Raymond Todd, poet, scholar and new friend; Britton E. Trice, publisher, kindly shared every available information about his McCarthy limited editions; Amanda Urban, prominent figure in the literary American landscape and McCarthy agent, helped answering my questions, so thank you very much; Morgan Wesley, scholar and passionate researcher of McCarthy’s Knoxville and circle, a wonderful mine of information which he generously shared with me; Alexander Wochnik, bookdealer and friend who brought to me the Murray collection of Cormac McCarthy and more than that.
Mr. Sunup
CHRISTOPHER MARLENES