Association Copy copy that belonged to someone connected with the author or the contents of a book.Armorial Used to describe a binding bearing the coat of arms of the original owner, or with bookplates incorporating the owner’s arms.Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes. Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.With “First Printing” on copyright page.īook fine lightest edge-toning to scarce about-fine dust jacket. Truman claimed that the camera had caught him off guard, but in fact he had posed himself and was responsible for both the picture and the publicity” ( Capote). Published when he was only 23, Capote called this evocative, semi-autobiographical first novel “a poetic explosion in highly suppressed emotion… like the message stuffed in a bottle and thrown into the sea.” The Harold Halma photograph on the rear dust jacket panel, picturing a seductively posed Capote, was described by his biographer Gerald Clarke as sparking “as much comment and controversy as the prose inside. Other Voices, Other Rooms launched the career of Truman Capote, who quickly became “one of the postwar era’s leading American writers” ( New York Times). Octavo, original beige cloth, original dust jacket.įirst edition of Capote’s first novel, with the provocative and controversial Halma photograph of Capote on the rear panel of the scarce original dust jacket.
“ONE OF THE POSTWAR ERA’S LEADING AMERICAN WRITERS”: FIRST EDITION OF OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMSĬAPOTE, Truman.
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