SIGNED & INSCRIBED The Grass Harp 1ST EDITION 1st Printing CAPOTE 1951
Octavo, full bound beige cloth boards with brick, green and black stamped title to spine. First Edition, First Printing of Truman Capote's The Grass Harp. Boldly inscribed on the front endpaper, To Walter / With admiration / Truman Capote.
A very nice example more scarcely found with a personal inscription by Capote. Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits--an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies--who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures and responsibilities of freedom. "The Grass Harp charms you into sharing the author's feeling that there is a special poetry-a spontaneity and wonder and delight-in lives untarnished by conformity and common sense" (The Atlantic). Near Fine Book in Very Good Dust Jacket. Book binding tight and nearly square with very slight slant. Original full boudn cloth boards present well.Boads mostly clean with age toning to edges, rubbing of corners with slight loss, and very small bump to top edge of rear board. Issolted inoffesive light soilig at rear board outside corner not impacting rear pastedown. Internally Fine - clean, bright and unmarked. Dust Jacket presents well Front and rear panels show very well.
Wear at creases and hinges as well as rubbing at corners with slight loss. Open tears to head and foot of spine with more considerabel loss and slight toning to spine title as well as rear panel. Closed tears along rear hinge and about two thirds separation to front hinge beginning at foot. Some age toning to edges, most apparent at top of flap sand rear crease. A scarce and in demand copy boldly INSCRIBED & SIGNED on the front endpaper, To Walter / With admiration / Truman Capote.A classic work considered by many to be amongst the best, including The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow, All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, American Pastoral by Philip Roth, An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, Animal Farm by George Orwell, Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume, The Assistant by Bernard Malamud, At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien, Atonement by Ian McEwan, Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood, The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder, Call It Sleep by Henry Roth, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, The Catcher in the Rye by J. Salinger, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron, The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell, The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West, Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, A Death in the Family by James Agee, The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen, Deliverance by James Dickey, Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone, Falconer by John Cheever, The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles, The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin, Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, and The Great Gatsby by F. Others include titles such as, A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene, Herzog by Saul Bellow, Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, A House for Mr. Naipaul, I, Claudius by Robert Graves, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, Light in August by William Faulkner, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.
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