Search Results: Truman Capote from TBCL The Book Collection Library

New York: Random House, 1958. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. Not A Book/Clamshell As New. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Capote, Truman. BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S. Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine. The case is finished in burnt orange cloth & brown cloth with Tiffany 'sculpted' design on the side. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition & can also be crafted in full leather [please inquire]. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for OVER 100 generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request. Book definitely NOT included.

New York: Random House n.d. (1966), 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Trade Edition, later printing Inscribed on the half-title by Truman Capote, 'For John and Joy/Merry Christmas/'82/Truman Capote.' Gilt titled black boards, publisher's red slipcase with tipped-on photograph of the author. A near fine copy, without dustwrapper, as issued. John Miller was a film director doing a series of interviews with Joanne Carson - Johnny's second wife and Truman's dearest friend. Joanne arranged for Truman to inscribe copies of, A Christmas Memory and One Christmas for John. A copy of a typed affidavit signed by Miller on his letterhead detailing his relationship with Carson and Capote. A lovely original 5" x 7" black and white photo by Tim Berrith of Joanne Carson, Truman Capote and John Miller which is also inserted into the book along with a copy of an explanatory transmittal note to John Miller in Joanne Carson's hand.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First UK Edition. Black cloth stamped in gilt at spine, in black glossy dustwrapper. Fine/Fine. 419pp. Collection of non-fiction pieces from various occasions, very much the best of its sort, elevating celebrity & camp to high art through felicity & deftness of touch.

New York: Random House (1952), 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon First edition. One of 500 copies printed. 8vo, illustrated with scenes from the 1952 production, original boards, dustwrapper. Near fine in very good or better dustwrapper.

New York: Signet, 1953. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First Edition. A better than very good copy in the publisher's pictorial stiff card wrappers. 12mo. 142 pp.

Greenwich, Conn: High School Writings. May, 1941, 1941. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Association Copy. First Edition. Decorated stiff card covers. FROM THE LIBRARY OF TRUMAN CAPOTE stamped on the upper cover which is dated 1941. Prints two of the earliest pieces Capote published in this literary bi-annual magazine. Uncommon. Near Fine or better. Unique. His Copy. With the original catalogue card from the Gotham Book Mart who sold much of the Capote Library items in the 1980's. Truman left Greenwich High in early 1942.

New York: Random House (1968), 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in near fine [p/c] dustwrapper. Bright yellow top stain. Scarce in this condition. A lovely copy of this musical collaboration first produced in 1954 but not published until its Off-Broadway revival in 1968. Lyrics by Capote & Ar len, who wrote the music. Probably Capote's scarcest book.

New York: Random House, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Wrappers. 8vo. 343 pp. Advance Review Copy. Bound in the first-issue dust wrapper with burgundy endpapers. Fore-edges of the leaves are untrimmed. The wrapper retains the publisher's price of $5.95 in the upper right of the front flap & is only minimally shelf-rubbed at the extremities. A very good or better copy - 2" closed tear at bottom inner edge of the front cover. Custom clamshell case. Basis for the icy 1967 documentary-style film directed by Richard Brooks and starring Robert Blake and Scott Wilson.

New York: Random House, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Presentation Copy. This is TC's Aunt Lucille Faulk Ingram's own copy with a Random House " Compliments of " printed card taped to the front pastedown on which is written in a presumed secretarial hand in blue ink: " .the author, who wishes you a Merry Christmas". On the front fly, aunt Lucille Ingram has neatly inscribed in red ink: "Given to Lucille Ingram by Truman Capote". She has also signed the back endpapers twice. Near fine in a very good dustwrapper with some old tap e remains visible. [old tape removed]. A very special copy of one of Capote's highlights. Of All of the cousins Truman lived with as a child, Lucille Faulk Ingram & her daughter were his closest kin. As a fledgling writer looking for solitude, it was in the comfort of Lucille Ingram's home that Truman began to write his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms.

New York: Random House (1950), 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo, 92pp. Capote's impressions of New Orleans, Hollywood, Tangiers, New York, among other places, with photographs by Cecil Beaton, Cartier-Bresson, Hoynigen-Huene, Alexander Liberman, among others 8vo, illustrated with photographs, original cloth-backed boards, dustwrapper. Very nice copy. Uncommon.

New York: Random House, [1980], 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo, black cloth. Fine in [p/c] dustwrapper. 14 journalistic pieces including a portrait of Marilyn Monroe, "A Beautiful Child

New York: Random House (1967), 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 63pp. Original beige boards with red cloth spine. One of 300 numbered copies specially printed & bound & signed by the author. A fine copy in the publisher's near fine slipcase. A memoir of Capote's boyhood in rural Alabama inspired by his cousin Sook Faulk. Small limitation.

New York: Random House, (1949), 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of Capote's second book & first book of short stories. 8vo. A fine copy in a near fine, lightly rubbed dw. Attractive gift inscription on ffe dated, Christmas, 1949. Eight stories, two of which, "Miriam" & "Shut a Final Door", had both won O.Henry Awards. Nice copy.