To be auctioned by Christie's : 1963 Olivetti Lettera 32, manual typewriter. Acquired from a pawn shop in Knoxville, TN. Paid $50. Present owner, Cormac McCarthy.
[McCarthy says, “The typewriter] has never been serviced or cleaned other than blowing out the dust with a service station hose. ... I have typed on this typewriter every book I have written including three not published. Including all drafts and correspondence I would put this at about five million words over a period of 50 years.”
Cormac McCarthy is the author of more than a dozen novels, including "All the Pretty Horses," "No Country for Old Men," and 2007 Pulitzer winner, "The Road." The movie adaptation of "No Country for Old Men" won four Oscars, including the award for Best Picture.
McCarthy decided to sell his trusty, but nearly-worn-out, Olivetti when a friend, John Miller, offered to buy a replacement. Miller managed to locate another Olivetti 32, and purchased it for $11.
Christie's will auction the typewriter on Friday; the purchase price is estimated between $15,000 and $20,000. The proceeds to the Santa Fe Institute, a nonprofit interdisciplinary scientific research organization with which both McCarthy and Miller are affiliated.
Read the original article at The New York Times.
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