Capote And The Swans from Chase Rare Books

BENJAMIN, Melanie. The Swans of Fifth Avenue. Delacorte Press, 2016 First edition, first printing. Signed. This is a novel about New York "swans" of the 1950s, and the scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship between literary legend Truman Capote and peerless socialite Babe Paley. HB (ISBN: 9780345528698). 341 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.

SCOTT, Peter; The Wildfowl Trust. The Swans. London: Michael Joseph, 1972. First edition. Signed by Peter Scott. Swans are fascinating birds, and this book is certainly a must-have on the subject. Chapters include Classification, Distribution and Migration, Family Life, Art, Heraldry and Mythology, Conservation, and more. Sir Peter Scott (1909-1989) was an artist, writer, ornithologist, naturalist and conservationist. In 1946 he founded… Read more about this item

VANDERBILT, Gloria and FURNESS, Lady Thelma. Double Exposure: A Twin Autobiography.David McKay Company: New York, 1958 Third Printing. From the library of Truman Capote, with his ownership initials on the front endpaper. Laid in is a Bonhams slip indicating that this was part of lot 1061 in "The Private World of Truman Capote" sale. This is the dual autobiography of the famous… Read more about this item

GREENBERG-JEPHCOTT, KELLEIGH. Swan Song. London, Hutchinson, 2018. Exclusive signed first edition, limited to 250 copies (this is copy #97/250). As new in strikingly stylish white swan dust jacket. Playlist loosely inserted. With original Marella Agnelli bookmark. Author's debut novel, an entertaining and spellbinding reimagining of one of the most fascinating literary scandals - the epic fall out between Truman Capote and… Read more about this item

FOULKES, Nicholas. Bals: Legendary Costume Balls of the Twentieth Century. Assouline, 2011. From the twilight of the Romanov dynasty through les années folles of Art Deco Paris to the jet-set seventies, Bals explores the nine most exceptional private costume parties of the twentieth century, in the most beautiful book ever produced on the subject. In addition to social commentary from (or… Read more about this item

AVEDON, Richard; CAPOTE, Truman. Observations. New York: Simon & Shuster, 1959. First edition. Photographs by Richard Avedon. Introductory essay 'On Richard Avedon', and text accompanying the photographs by Truman Capote. Book design by Alexey Brodovitch. The first collection of Avedon's photographs to appear in book form. Features some of the most fascinating figures of mid-twentieth century: Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, Coco Chanel,… Read more about this item

RADZIWILL, Lee. Happy Times. New York: Assouline, 2000. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author. Half notebook, half photo album, Happy Times, presents Lee Radziwill's reminiscences of the 1960s, a period of her life that was particularly rich and exciting. Rather than offering a chronological story, the book evokes people, places and moments, and takes us back to one of the… Read more about this item

GUEST, C.Z. First Garden. New York: G.P. Putman's Sons, 1976. With an Introduction by Truman Capote. Illustrations in the book and dust jacket by Cecil Beaton. Book design by Bea Feitler. First edition. This was Guest's first of several books on gardening. Warmly inscribed in Guest's typical green pen, "To John [Loring?], with great admiration, Happy gardening, C.Z. Guest, Jan '79." 4to, original… Read more about this item