Oct 10, 2019 - Sale 2519

Sale 2519 - Lot 225

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
CAPOTE, TRUMAN. The Grass Harp. 8vo, publisher's tan linen; price-clipped dust jacket, several tape repairs on verso, spine panel tips and fold corners rubbed and nicked, spine panel joints abraded, creasing; newsclippings tipped to 3 terminal blanks and rear pastedown offset to facing leaves. New York: Random House, (1951)

Additional Details

first edition, association copy of merit, warmly inscribed by the author to his eleventh grade teacher Catherine R. Wood (her stamp above the inscription on front free endpaper), acknowledged as being the first to recognize the teenager's writing talents. "For precious Woody - with all of Truman's love."