A Christmas Memory.

CAPOTE, Truman.

Item Number: 87907

New York: Random House, 1956.

First edition of the re-issue of Capote’s autobiographical short story. Octavo, original cloth, original slipcase with the mounted photograph. Signed by Truman Capote on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine slipcase. Designed by George Salter.

Capote's autobiographical tale of a boyhood Christmas season in rural Alabama first appeared in Mademoiselle in 1956 and was one of three short stories published with the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's in 1958.