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A BRIDGE TO CHILDHOOD: Truman Capote's Southern Years
by Moates, Marianne M
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 080500971X
- ISBN 13
- 9780805009712
- Seller
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A. : Henry Holt & Company,Inc. , 1989. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The young Truman Capote who emerges from these amusing recollections by his first cousin, Jennings Faulk Carter, and freelance writer Moates is quick-witted, scheming, mercurial, a born leader in the mischievous escapades of a trio that included their tomboyish next-door neighbor Harper (``Nellie'') Lee, who later wrote To Kill a Mockingbird . Capote, abandoned by his mother to the care of relatives in Monroeville, Ala., as a small boy, found a maternal substitute in Carter's mother Mary Ida. Redolent with down-home flavor, these modest yet revealing tales deal with such matters as a fight with the town bully, bootlegging by Capote's father, exhuming a skeleton from a graveyard and a beach outing. Carter contends that relatives and friends alike failed Capote by not providing love and understanding. In her extensive introduction, Moates offers a contrasting view, asserting that Capote adapted to the role of family oddball." (Publishers Weekly) Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. [Not remainder-marked or price-clipped] A105
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- Bookseller
- Joe Staats, Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024635
- Title
- A BRIDGE TO CHILDHOOD: Truman Capote's Southern Years
- Author
- Moates, Marianne M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 080500971X
- ISBN 13
- 9780805009712
- Publisher
- Henry Holt & Company,Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1989
- Pages
- 240
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
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We specialize in collectible, contemporary signed first editions. First edition means the first printing. (Later printings of the first edition are typically not printed on acid-free paper, and should be avoided by collectors.) Signatures are obtained by us in person. Inscribed books sold by us may contain a line, a phrase, or a sketch that the author has chosen to add. Our signed books are not dedicated to anybody in particular (not to your grandmother, your Aunt Gladys, your ex-lover or your former cellmate), except in the rare case of a presentation copy from an author to a noteworthy person. All our books are hardcover, unless the book is an Advance Reading Copy, Uncorrected Proof, or PBO. You can expect that the books we send you will be as described, and in a physical condition worthy of the author’s having signed them. We do not sell remainder-marked books, signed or otherwise
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