Apr 19, 2007 - Sale 2110

Sale 2110 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 2,160
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
CAPOTE, TRUMAN. Other Voices, Other Rooms. Advance Uncorrected Proof Copy. Tall 8vo, original blue wrappers with large printed cover label, overall soiling, some creasing, lower outer corner and spine ends chipped; title-page loose and chipped along edge, clean tear across final leaf; custom cloth clamshell box with morocco spine label. New York: Random House, (1947)

Additional Details

rare proof copy of capote's groundbreaking first book. the only recorded copy we could locate. The label on the cover is dated January 12, $2.75, in pen, and stamped File Copy Please Return to Publicity Department Random House, Inc. This proof was prepared from cut galleys typeset in October 1947; though the January 12th date is given here, actual publication was pushed back to the 19th. This copy was recorded as item 1a in the Capote section of Author Price Guides. Dickerson, MD., 2004.