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Woolmer, James Howard
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- Woolmer, J. Howard
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1929-2023
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James Howard Woolmer was born in Montreal in 1929. He moved to New York City in 1958, where he began a career as a professional bookseller in the early 1960's. In addition to working at his business, J. Howard Woolmer has compiled a number of published bibliographies and collections of note, including A Checklist of the Hogarth Press 1917-1946, and a catalogue as well as a bibliography of Malcolm Lowry's writings. In recent years, Mr. Woolmer has built collections relating to American poets, Irish poets, American Jewish writers and Irish theatre for the Firestone Library at Princeton University.
Woolmer died in 2023.
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http://viaf.org/viaf/92914532
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Victoria University Library - Special Collections
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Revised by BC: March 20, 2023