Description
First edition of One Christmas by Truman Capote.
Octavo, 41pp. Maroon cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine. Stated “First Edition” with full number sequence on copyright page. Clean text, no marks or notations. Housed in publisher’s original red paper-covered slipcase, title label with childhood photo of the author with his father mounted on side panel. A nice example.
Autobiographical story about Truman Capote’s first Christmas with his estranged father, which first appeared in Ladies’ Home Journal in 1982. The story was later adapted into a made-for-television movie in 1994, starring Katharine Hepburn (in her last television appearance), Henry Winkler, and Swoosie Kurtz.
