A lucky and careful bookseller from El Paso, Jud Burgess who runs Brave Books there, has found and purchased over 1,500 books previously owned by Cormac McCarthy. They were left in a storage when McCarthy in 2001 moved to Tesuque, 10 miles north of Santa Fe. 

Some of the books are annotated by McCarthy and as such of interest. Among them a copy of Meditations on Quixote by Ortega y Gassett with a few notations in McCarthy’s hand; McCarthy’s copy of the essays collected in Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy with a letter by Chip Arnold laid in; a limited edition copy of Baby’s First Step signed by Updike and marked by the publisher “CMC”, Cormac McCarthy copy. Laid in another book, Burgess found what seems to be a short poem written by the author of Blood Meridian.