Cormac McCarthy Signed Photograph.
MCCARTHY, Cormac.
Cormac McCarthy Signed Photograph.
Extremely rare photograph of Cormac McCarthy; inscribed by him to his wife Anne DeLisle
London: John Adams Creative Photography, c. 1966.
$12,000.00
In Stock
Item Number: 148964
Original gelatin silver print, three-quarter studio portrait of a young McCarthy. Inscribed by Cormac to his wife to the right of the portrait, “To my lovely Annie, Cormac.” Cormac McCarthy married Anne DeLisle in 1966, and their union, which lasted until 1981, coincided with a formative period of his career when he was still largely unknown but developing the distinctive style that would later bring him critical acclaim. The photograph was taken during their visit to England in 1966 when they were married, and likely inscribed during that time. According to Annie, this was her favorite photo of him and was prominently displayed on Cormac’s writing desk in her home. Framed, with the photograph folded back 1/4″ at right and bottom edges to fit frame. In very good condition. The entire piece measures 10 inches by 12 inches. An extremely rare, very personal inscribed photo of the elusive writer.
Cormac McCarthy (1933–2023) was an American novelist whose stark prose and often violent themes earned him recognition as one of the most influential literary voices of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His best-known works include Blood Meridian (1985), regarded as a masterpiece of the American West and frontier violence, and the Border Trilogy—All the Pretty Horses (1992), The Crossing (1994), and Cities of the Plain (1998)—which brought him both critical acclaim and commercial success, with All the Pretty Horses winning the National Book Award. Later, No Country for Old Men (2005) and The Road (2006) achieved bestseller status, with the latter earning him the Pulitzer Prize and cementing his reputation as a chronicler of human survival and moral ambiguity. Interestingly, McCarthy remained notoriously private, eschewing the literary celebrity circuit, and even conducted his rare interviews with scientific rather than literary journals, reflecting his deep interest in physics and philosophy alongside literature.
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