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A Christmas Memory

1966160 x 240 mm

FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF 600 EX. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

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FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF 600 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHORprinted on "special paper" and bound specially for this edition (the only edition on large paper).

Short story first published in magazine Miss in December 1956, "A Christmas Memory"is inspired by the author's childhood and his relationship with a distant cousin, Nanny Faulk, known as Sook, who, despite a developmental disability, would prove to be a true genius in Capote's eyes.

Now considered to be a "holiday classic", A Christmas Memory  has been adapted many times for radio, film, television and theatre.

Publisher's illustrated and titled slipcase.

 

New York,Random House New York,1966.In-8, Bound,160 x 240 mm,45 [1] pp.

Full green publisher's cloth. Smooth spine, gilt title.
Publisher's red illustrated slipcase.

Bio

Truman Capote

Truman Streckfus Persons

(New Orleans: September 30, 1924 - Los Angeles: August 25, 1984)

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