Truman Capote — Miriam

Mankato, Minnesota, Creative Education, 1981 . First edition. Hardback. A signed example of the first separate edition of Truman Capote's chilling short story about two woman who share the same name, illustrated by Sandra Higashi. Flat signed by Truman Capote to the title page.The first separate edition of this short story, first printing.Initially published in the June 1945 issue of Mademoiselle as one of Capote's first published stories, this was then collected in a 1949 short story collection, 'A Tree of Night and Other Stories&apos. This is the first separate edition.With vignette illustrations from Sandra Higashi.Set in New York, this is a story about an elderly widow Miriam who lives in social isolation in her apartment, and the invasion of her apartment by a young girl that she meets by chance one day, also named Miriam. In the publisher's original pictorial paper covered boards. Boards exceptionally bright. Significant fading to back strip, with rubbing and losses of paper to back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Flat signed to title page. Pages clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: Sandra Higashi. Very Good .