First edition of Capote's first published novel, the semi-autobiographical story of a isolated and lonely young boy growing up into self-understanding in an atmosphere of Southern grotesquerie and decayed grandeur.
Very good plus in very good jacket.
Price: $450.00
"The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common."
Capote's brilliant debut was greatly assisted by Harold Halma's famously fetching dust jacket author photograph, in which the 23-year-old author reclines like an odalisque, whipping critics into an absolute frenzy of adjectives by his "brazen performance" of "the passive, effeminate, foppish gay man" (Richards). Truman Capote on a couch: a "kind of teen-age, marzipan Peter Lorre in a tattersall vest" (Gloria Steinem), "blond bangs dangling over his forehead, full lips moist and pouting" (Eric Noden), a "slim, exotic-looking faun." A book worthy of its back cover.
Read more: Richards, Lovers and Beloveds: Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936-1961.
New York: Random House, (1948). 8'' x 5.25''. Original grey-green cloth. Grey topstain. In original unclipped ($2.75) dust jacket designed by Sal Immerman. 231, [1] pages. Owner name in pencil to first leaf. Light wear and toning to boards, offsetting to endpapers. Jacket lightly scuffed, with some toning to spine and rear panel, small closed tear to lower spine with tape repair to verso.
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