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Willie Master's Lonesome Wife - Typescript Photocopy with Notes

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Gass, William H., and Levy, Lawrence. 2000. Willie Master’s Lonesome Wife - Typescript Photocopy With Notes. Fiction Books: Willie Master’s Lonesome Wife, William H. Gass: The Soul Inside the Sentence, accessed March 26, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/gass/item/57598

Title: Willie Master's Lonesome Wife - Typescript Photocopy with Notes
Description: In 2022, the designer of one of Gass’s most infamous books sold us correspondence, drafts and clippings regarding the conception, design and publication of the 1968 novella, as well as the first numbered copy of 100 signed by Gass, which Levy kept in a safe for over 50 years.; This early draft photocopy contains holograph notes by Gass addressed to Levy as they figured out the complicated design elements of the book together via mail and telephone.
Date: [1968]
Type: Typescript
Format: Paper; jpeg files
Creator: Gass, William H.; Levy, Lawrence
Extent: Selection: 10 pages
Language: English
Relation: Fiction Books: Willie Master's Lonesome Wife
Source: Accession: MS2022-004; Acquired from: Lawrence Levy
Identifier: ms-vmf245-b20-f12-manu-001; ms-vmf245-b20-f12-manu-002; ms-vmf245-b20-f12-manu-003; ms-vmf245-b20-f12-manu-004; ms-vmf245-b20-f12-manu-005; ms-vmf245-b20-f12-manu-006; ms-vmf245-b20-f12-manu-007; ms-vmf245-b20-f12-manu-008; ms-vmf245-b20-f12-manu-009; ms-vmf245-b20-f12-manu-010
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