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paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Illustrated by Small Author Photo Back Covr (illustratore). Twenty-Fourth Printing. VERY GOOD CONDITION PAPERBACK; 384pg thick pages; . . "This Book Will Become A Classic.".

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Michael Ian Kaye (Cover Design) (illustratore). 2nd Edition 1995. 476 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition/printing with complete number line. Small red remainder dot on bottom edge; no other markings. Very minor edge wear to dust jacket.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardbound. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A tight, clean copy, appears unread. The slightest edgewear to corners of delicate paper jacket. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. F800/C.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 2011 Folio Society edition. Interior pages are in very good condition with only minor reading/handling wear and no noted writing or highlighting (other than a name and date written in pen on the title page). Downgraded to 'Good' due to minor cover/corner wear and there is no slipcase.

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mass_market. Condizione: Brand New. 440 pages. Spanish language. 5.28x1.18x7.95 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Issued Without DJ. 1st Edition. HAVE A SECOND COPY FOR $30 COVER CREASED, NON AUTHORIAN INSCRIPTION ON FRONT END SHEET.

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Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 120 pages. German language. 6.85x0.39x9.17 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 375 pages. Published in 1987. The author's collection of interviews. Published in a small and limited print run of 500 copies by a University Press as part of the now-legendary "Literary Conversations" Series. This First Hardcover Edition was sold to public libraries only and was never reissued. Should not be confused with the regular trade Softcover Edition. The First Edition is now rare. Presents, in the most collectible format possible, "Truman Capote: Conversations". A representative selection of interviews conducted by various writers, journalists, and scholars with the author. Gives a rich, complex, and lively overview of both the life and mind of one of America's most important writers. Presented in chronological order, the interviews cumulatively amount to an absorbing account of one of the greatest literary journeys of the 20th century, which is the explicit intention of the publisher with each writer who is included in the Series. Together with Lawrence Grobel's "Conversations With Capote" (1985), the final interviews Capote gave just before he died, the present collection is all you will need to hear everything - truth, un-truth, and gossip - from and about Truman Capote straight from the horse's mouth. In the end, Capote's problem, if that is what it was, was with reality, not just celebrity: As a careful reading of these illuminating Interviews, conducted over the key decades of the so-called American Century (the 1940's through the early 1980's), will unwittingly show, Capote's personal ethics were those of a precocious and mischievous child, who tested the patience of grown-ups (his beloved Swans, the media, the critics) because he believed he would get away with it. He would be reprimanded for his infractions, then be forgiven and re-embraced because "he's just a child" and because they love him. A child's ethics is about pure, unconditional love and forgiveness. The grown-ups he betrayed obviously felt otherwise, and Capote paid the ultimate price. The dazzling photograph of the young Capote on the Cover was taken by no less than William S. Paley, the founder of CBS and philandering husband of Babe Paley, Truman's Premier Swan. The original photograph is now in the Library of Congress Collection. "ALL literature is gossip" (Truman Capote). An absolute "must-have" title for Truman Capote collectors. This title is a great collection. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. It is the single most beautiful copy we have ever seen. Please note: Copies available online have very serious flaws, are former library copies, or the Softcover Edition. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" is widely regarded as one of the greatest books of the 20th century. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER TRUMAN CAPOTE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0878052747. no.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 244 pages. Published in 1985. The author's final collection of interviews, conducted just before he died. One of the most valuable author-interview collections of the 20th century. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Truman Capote's and Lawrence Grobel's "Conversations With Capote". Twelve witty and eminently quotable interviews conducted by the Playboy Magazine contributor/journalist shortly before Capote's sudden demise. In effect, his Last Words. Crammed with remarks that seesaw between Capote's justifiable pride (about what he achieved) as well as his crippling insecurity (about what he could and did not). Taken as a whole, this book amounts to an artistic credo and a confessional autobiography by one of the most controversial American writers of the 20th century, who also happens to be one of its greatest stylists. It is telling that Capote's reputation abroad has remained steadfast. In France, where Flaubert redefined writing as craft practiced at the highest level of perfection, Capote, the literary artist, endures. In Japan, where Yukio Mishima declared that Capote was one of a handful of truly great American writers, his fame is undimmed. In America, he has needed "revival" every now and then. That would usually be OK, except that American media, critics, and readers lavish fulsome praise upon fashionable, "difficult", and otherwise unreadable "post-modern" writers, so-called, whose work will not endure. An absolute "must-have" title for Truman Capote collectors. This title is a great collection. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: The Number Line must include the Number 1. Do NOT be deceived by the "First Printing" statement that does not come with the complete number line. These are all later printings. Copies available online have serious flaws or are in multiple subsequent printings. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with vintage black-and-white photographs. Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" is widely regarded as one of the greatest books of the 20th century. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER TRUMAN CAPOTE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0453004946. no.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 498 pages. Published in 1997. Massive Oral Biography on subject. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now rare. Presents George Plimpton's "Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, And Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career". Engrossing and almost definitive as such. "Nobody can match George Plimpton as an adroit weaver of interviews into a tight narrative fabric. His book doesn't knock the biography, 'Capote', off the shelf, but it's so much more fun to read. Brimming with important literary history" (Tim Appelo). Another legendary writer explained to Plimpton why Capote was the Real Thing and F. Scott Fitzgerald's successor, despite the unavoidable distractions of celebrity and reality: "The scene stirring with rightness and strangeness, the compressed phrase, the exact yet imaginative word, the devastating metaphorical aptness, a feeling of concentrated excess which at the same time gives the effect of being crystalline" (James Dickey). About Plimpton: By the time he died in 2003, George Plimpton himself became one of the iconic American figures of our time. Prolific writer, Founder of The Paris Review, actor, ornithologist, athlete, and one of the closest friends of Robert F. Kennedy, he famously wrestled and pinned Sirhan Sirhan to the ground after the latter assassinated Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. The basis of not one but two film classics, "Capote" (2005) by Bennett Miller, with Philip Seymour Hoffman in his Academy Award-winning performance, and "Infamous" (2006) by Douglas MacGrath, with Toby Jones, in an equalling enthralling performance. An absolute "must-have" title for Truman Capote and George Plimpton collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in blue ink-pen on the title page by George Plimpton. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are in multiple subsequent printings. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the best American writers of our time on one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER TRUMAN CAPOTE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0385232497. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 300 pages. Published in 2004. Scarce Truman Capote collectible set. A fine copy of "The Complete Stories of Truman Capote" First Hardcover Edition/First Printing with a pristine copy of the Strand Magazine's publication of his recently discovered short story, "Another Day In Paradise". The latter, in effect, truly completes his oeuvre. Retrospective collection of short stories. One of the greatest American collections of the 20th century. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Random House: Regular-sized volume format. Hard boards with gilt titles embossed on spine, as issued. Text by Truman Capote. Introductory Essay, "Usable Answers", by the great American novelist Reynolds Price. The latter piece, which alludes to "Answered Prayers", appears in this edition only. Printed on archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. In wraparound DJ, which utilizes the great, Surrealist-inspired photograph of the 21-year-old Capote by Henri Cartier-Bresson, as issued. Presents "The Complete Stories of Truman Capote". Nothing less than some of the highest spots of modern American literature. Capote will always be remembered - rightly so - for his masterpiece, "In Cold Blood" (1965). Still, his short stories and his novellas, that is to say, his long short stories ("Other Voices, Other Rooms", "The Grass Harp", "Breakfast At Tiffany's", and in the end, "Answered Prayers") are among the enduring achievements by an American author whose life was tragically cut short by what amounted to a self-inflicted death from depression, alcoholism, and drug addiction. The inescapable interest in Capote The Celebrity tends to dilute and distract us from the greatness of Capote The Writer. Capote's model was Flaubert, and his stated goal was punitively Flaubert-ian: Literary perfection. There is no contemporary American writer who writes as magnificently as Capote did at the height of his powers. Fashionable American writers today denigrate his achievement because they can't do it, and we tend to hate what we cannot do. Includes "The Bargain", which appears in published form for the very first time. An absolute "must-have" title for Truman Capote collectors. This title is a great collection. It comes with a pristine copy of Strand Magazine's "Truman Capote's Unpublished Short Story". As far as we know, this is the only such set of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing and Strand Magazine Issue available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A scarce set thus. Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" is widely regarded as one of the greatest books of the 20th century. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine set. (SEE ALSO OTHER TRUMAN CAPOTE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0679643109. no.