Little Bookroom, Date: 2015-11-03. Hardcover. Like New. Little Bookroom ISBN 1936941112 9781936941117 [US]

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New York City, NY: The Little Bookroom, Date: 2015. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: The Little Bookroom, 2015. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 105 pages. Retrospective collection of personal essays, with accompanying vintage photographs. One of Truman Capote's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run by The Little Bookroom as a not-so-little, full-fledged hardcover original only. It is a significant expansion of the publisher's previous pocket volume, "A House On The Heights" (2002), and incorporates the original essay George Plimpton wrote for the latter. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Truman Capote's "Brooklyn: A Personal Memoir". Interspersed with the re-discovered photographs of Brooklyn by David Attie, which rank with the work of Helen Levitt. "The tranquil life Truman Capote led in the quiet enclave of Brooklyn Heights in the 1950's and 1960's stood in sharp contrast to the glittering scene he adored in Manhattan. Vividly evokes the neighborhood that Capote came to know well and described as Brooklyn's 'splendid contradictions'. Its denizens, including a celebrated Russian spy, a globe-trotting antiquarian, and a cat-rescuing dowager with a pointed social agenda, bring to life the Brooklyn that ...