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Capote, Truman. The Thanksgiving Visitor (Signed). Random House, New York, 1967.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Quarter red cloth spine over tan boards. A 63 pp extended story by the author of Breakfast At Tiffanys and In Cold Blood. Later printing. Comes in a hard slipcase with a tipped on sepia photo of a young boy with his grandmother. Capote has SIGNED this copy on the first white endpaper. A former owner has also chosen to write an inscription on the same page. Otherwise a clean handsome copy.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Truman Capote. The Thanksgiving Visitor [Signed]. Random House, New York, 1967.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by Capote and limited to 300 copies, of which this is number 61. Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. Housed in a paper covered slipcase with a pictorial pastedown of Capote and Miss Faulk. Some fading to slipcase (see image), otherwise a nice clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements. 6.5 x 9.75 in
Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Truman Capote. The Thanksgiving Visitor. Random House January 1967, 1967.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed First Edition. Random House, 1967. Hardcover, cream paper boards quarter-bound in red cloth, gold lettering and decoration, 8vo in grey blue slipcase. First printing stated. Book is clean & crisp with signature only of Capote in blue felt-tip pen to half-title. Slipcase solid with light sunning. Fine in Near Fine box.
Seller: Pelican Bay Books, Anacortes, WA, U.S.A.
Capote, Truman. The Thanksgiving Visitor. Random House, New York, 1967.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 63pp. Original beige boards with red cloth spine. in the original publisher's box with a photographic label. Box has slightly bumped corners. Presentation copyInscribed by Truman Capote "With my admiration and gratitude - Truman Capote" Personally signed copies of this book are notoriously difficult to locate. The limited edition of 300 copies turns up more often. With the limited edition, Capote likely signed a stack of numbered sheets and never held the original book in his hands like he did with this copy. The story takes the form of a childhood tale about a boy and his bully problem. The story has a strong moral lesson related to revenge. It is a sequel to the author's "A Christmas Memory." The story is narrated by nine-year-old Buddy, whose older cousin is his best friend. Buddy gets stopped on the way to school every day by local bully Odd Henderson, who pins him to the ground and rubs burrs into Buddy's head because "he's a sissy", an appellation to which Buddy admits. To stop this problem, his cousin, Miss Sook, invites Odd to her big Thanksgiving party. During the party, when Buddy is sulking in his bathroom cupboard, he spots Odd stealing a precious cameo. When Odd leaves the bathroom, Buddy leaves and claims in front of the whole party that Odd has stolen the cameo. Miss Sook goes to check, and she claims that the cameo is in place, but then Odd admits to stealing the cameo, lays it on a table, and walks out. Buddy then runs out and sulks in the barn, until the afternoon, when Miss Sook teaches him that he shouldn't have publicly humiliated Odd.
Seller: Sean Fagan, Rare Books, Buford, GA, U.S.A.
CAPOTE, Truman. The Thanksgiving Visitor. Random House, New York, 1967.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, limited and signed issue. Fine in slightly sunned near fine green slipcase. Copy number 85 of 300 copies Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Capote, Truman. THE THANKSGIVING VISITOR. Signed. Random House (1967), New York, 1967.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 63pp. Original beige boards with red cloth spine. One of 300 numbered copies specially printed & bound & signed by the author. A fine copy in the publisher's near fine slipcase. A memoir of Capote's boyhood in rural Alabama inspired by his cousin Sook Faulk. Small limitation.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY TRUMAN CAPOTE "FOR HARRY POTTER WITH GRATITUDE TRUMAN CAPOTE JANUARY 1978". (DOES J.K. ROWLING KNOW ABOUT THIS COPY?). HALF RED CLOTH OVER BEIGE BOARDS, GOLD GILT LETTERING ON SPINE. GRAY SLIPCASE WITH PASTE ON PHOTOGRAPH OF YOUNG CAPOTE WITH HIS ELDERLY COUSIN MISS SOOK FAULK. CLEAN STRONG TIGHT COPY IN PRISTINE CONDITION. P.S.: THIS HARRY POTTER WAS A PHYSICIAN LIVING IN BERGEN COUNTY, NJ. AND HAD AN OFFICE IN NEW YORK CITY. PERHAPS MR. CAPOTE WAS A PATIENT WHEN HE HAD WRITER'S CRAMP.
Seller: BRIER ROSE BOOKS, TEANECK, NJ, U.S.A.
Capote, Truman. The Thanksgiving Visitor. Random House, 1967.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First Edition, SIGNED by Truman Capote. A spectacular copy of this SIGNED EDITION limited to 300 copies. This beautiful book is bound in the original cloth with only a hint of wear to the edges. The binding is tight, and the pages are exceptionally clean. It appears that the book is unread. There is no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy of this First Edition authentically SIGNED by the author. We buy Truman Capote First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.