Series I: Editions of Capote Texts
Box 1
Answered Prayers: the unfinished novel
Box 1
New York: Random House, circa, 1987
Box 1
Abacus, 1988
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Box 1
6th printing, NY, undated
Paperbound:
Box 1
Signet/NAL #D1727 1st printing, 1959
Box 1
Signet/NAL #D1727 4th printing, 1961
Box 1
Signet/NAL #T47O9, 15th printing
Box 1
Signet/NAL #451-E9959 18th printing Signet/NAL
Box 1
Sphere, 1982-1st printing thus
Box 1
Abacus, 1984
Box 1
Penguin, 1963 4th reprint [1st printing-1961], 1963
Foreign
Box 1
Petit dejeuner chez Tiffany. Gallimard, 1962. #10 of 41
Box 1
Petit dejeuner chez Tiffany. Gallimard, 1973.
Box 1
Petit dejeuner chez Tiffany. Gallimard, 1980.
Box 1
Holly, en roman ogtre noveller. [Danish] Gyldendal, 1960. With forward by Karen Blixen.
Box 1
Frühstück bei Tiffany. Weisbaden: Bertelsmann Lesering, Limes Verlages,, undated
Box 1
Breakfast at Tiffany's playbill, for production starring Richard Chamberlain and Mary Tyler Moore
Box 1
Capote on theatre : a negative View. In Playbill, v . 3, no. 12 Dec, 1966
A Christmas Memory
Box 1
Avenue magazine, December /January 1983 issue. "A Christmas Memory," pp. 132-150.
Box 1
A Christmas Memory. Illlustrated by Beth Peck; narrated by Celeste Holm. Knop,, 1989
Box 2
The Dogs Bark
Paperbound
Box 2
Plum/NAL, 1977. 1st printing thus
Foreign
Box 2
Los perros ladran. Madrid: Ultramar Editores, 1976
Box 2
I cani abbaiano. Milano: Garzanti, 1976
The Grass Harp--Novel
Paperbound
Box 2
Signet/NAL, 1st printing, 1953. With red edges.
Box 2
Signet/NAL, 1st printing, 1953. With orange edges; spine a different blue
Box 2
Penguin #2563 1968 reprint. [1st printing, 1966], 1968
Box 2
Penguin #2563-4, 1978 reprint, 1978
Foreign
Box 2
La harpe d'herbes. Gallimard, 1952. #35 of 80. / Gallimard, 1952 trade., 1952
Box 2
Grȁsharpan. [Swedish] Stockholm, 1953. Paperbound.
Box 2
Graesharpen. Kobenhavn, 1957. Paperbound.
Anthologized
Box 2
Botteghe Oscure. Quaderno VII, Rome, 1951. Paperbound. [1st chapter of The Grass Harp
The Grass Harp--Play
Anthologized
Box 2
Theatre Arts, September, 1952 "Complete text of the Saint-Subber Production of Truman Capote's Grass Harp," pp. 34-64, including photo illustrated, September, 1952
Related Items
Box 2
The Grass Harp Songbook. Lyrics by Kenward Elmslie, Music by Claibe Richardson. NY, 1971. Paperbound.
Box 2
The Grass Harp. [Production by] The York Players Company, NY, 1979.Flyer announcing production, signed by lyricist and composer; 2 copies of Playbill.
Box 3
In Cold Blood
Paperbound
Box 3
Signet/NAL //W4385 22nd printing
Box 3
Sphere, 1981.
Box 3
Abacus, 1984
Foreign
Box 3
A Sangue Freddo. [Italian] Garzanti, 1966. In d/j
Box 3
KaltblUtig. Weisbaden, Limes verlag, undated In d/j, undated
Box 3
De Sang-Froid. Gallimard, 1966. #1527 of 5100 publicity strip & cellophane d/j, 5100
Box 3
De Sang-Froid. Gallimard, 1966. Trade pb, #59
Box 3
A Sangre fria. Editorial Noguer, 1972. 17th ed, in d/j. [1st ed. thus, 1966]
Box 3
A Sagre Fria. Club Bruguera, 1979
The Grass Harp and A Tree of Night
Box 3
Signet/NAL #S1333 1st printing, 1956.
Box 3
Signet/NAL T2918 8th printing.
Box 3
Signet/NAL Q5023 10th printing.
Box 3
Signet/NAL W7678 12th printing.
Box 3
Signet/NAL E9960 14th printing.
Box 4
The Muses are Heard
Paperbound
Box 4
Modern Library, #P35, [1958 ?]
Box 4
Vintage #V148
Foreign
Box 4
Se Oyen las-Musas. Buenos Aures, 1958. Paperbound.
Box 4
Les Muses Parlent. Gallimard, 1959. Paperbound. Limited ed., one of 35.
Box 4
Glassine d / j .
Box 4
Les Muses Parlent. Gallimard, 1959. Paperbound, glassine d / j . Inscribed by translator.
The Muses are Heard and Local Color
Box 4
Die Reise Erzahlungen. [Local Color, pp. 7-114; Muses, pp. 119-278.] [Weisbaden] Limes Verlages,, undated
Music for Chameleons
Paperbound
Box 4
Signet/NAL, 1981 & l4th printing, 1981
Box 4
Sphere, 1982. [1st printing thus, 1981]
Foreign
Box 4
Musica para Camaleones. Bruguera, undated Paperbound, undated
Box 4
Musique pour Cameleons. Gallimard, 1982. Paperbound & with d / j .
Manuscripts
Box 5
Other Voices Other Rooms
Paperbound
Box 5
Signet/NAL //T4867 15th printing.
Box 5
Signet/NAL //Q6053.
Box 5
Signet/NAL //E9961 19th printing [ca. 1980].
Box 5
Penguin #2135 1968 reprint. [1st printing 1964]. 2 copies, 1968
Box 5
Penguin 2135.3, 1978 reprint, 1978
Foreign
Box 5
De Herfst van een Jengd. 'S-Gravenhage, 1949. In d/j. With previous owner's inscription, November 1949.
Box 5
Les Domaines Hautes. Gallimard. //CLIX of CC copies.
Box 5
Otras Voces, Otros Ambitos. Buenos Aires, 1976. 3rd ed. [1st ed, 1950]
A Tree of Night
Paperbound
Box 5
Signet/NAL #878, 1951. 1st printing.
Box 5
Penguin, 1978 reprint. [1st printing, 1967], 1978
Foreign
Box 5
Un Arbre de Nuit. Gallimard, 1953. #24 of 80.
Trilogy
Series II: Capote Texts in Secondary Publications, Anthologies, and Periodicals
Box 6
Abrahams, William, ed. Fifty Years of the American Short Story, Vol I, Doubleday,, 1970
Box 6
Bowles, Jane. My Sister"s Hand in Mine. Ecco Press, 1978
Box 6
Cowley, Malcolm, ed. The Paris Review Interviews Writers. Penguin,, 1977
Box 6
Davis, Myrna. The Potato Book. William Morrow, 1973
Box 6
First-Prize Stories: 1919-1954. Hanover House, 1954
Box 6
Frost, David. The Americans. Stein and Day, 1970
Box 6
Kazin, Alfred. The Open Form. Harcourt Brace & World, 1961.
Box 6
Nance, William. The Worlds of Truman Capote. Stein & Day, 1973.
Box 6
Wickes, George. The Amazon of Letters. Putnam, 1976
Box 7
Burnett, Whit. This is My Best. Doubleday, 1970.
Box 7
Cochrane, James, ed. Penguin Book of American Short Stories. Penguin Books, 1982.
Box 7
Esquire: The Best of 40 Years. David McKay Co., 1973.
Box 7
Hills, L. Rust. Great Esquire Fiction. Penguin Books, 1983.
Box 7
Levin, Ira. Rosemary's Baby. Dell, 1967.
Box 7
Tang-Tan Mei-Kuo Tuan'-p'ien Hsiao-shuo Chi [Contemporary American Short Stories] Shanghai, 1979.
Box 7
Wallace, Irving, ed. The Book of Lists. William Morrow, 1980.
Box 7a
Meredith, Scott, ed. The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor. NY: Simon & Schuster,, 1963
Box 7a
Rudisill, Marie. Sook's cookbook, des. & ill. by Barry Moser, Atlanta: Longstreet Press,, 1989
Box 8
Atlantic, August 1947. "Should a Biographer Tell"
Box 8
Harper, February 1949. "Master Misery"
Box 8
Horizon, January 1949. "Master Misery"
Box 8
Du, September 1952. "Miriam" in German. Pp 49-54 and back cover only
Box 8
Esquire, July 1960 "Among the Paths to Eden.", July 1960
Box 8
Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1962. "Master Misery"
Box 8
McCalls, 10/1966. "Double Exposure: Oliver Smith"
Box 8
Vogue, April 15, 1967. "Extreme Magic"
Box 8
Family Circle, October 1968. "The School that Dreams Built."
Box 8
Cosmopolitan, July 1972. "Portrait of Myself."
Box 8
Esquire, July 1975. "Mojave." Offprint
Box 8
Esquire, November 1975. "La Cote Basque."
Box 8
Esquire, May 1976 "Unspoiled Monsters.", May 1976
Box 8
Esquire, December 1976. "Kate McCloud"
Box 8
New Yorker, Sept 17, 1979. "Our Far-Flung Correspondents: Martinique"
Box 8
Esquire, December 1979. "Dazzle41
Box 8
Cecil Brown's Quilt, vol.1, 1981. "Plate du Jour: Soul Food: Truman Capote on Black Culture."
Box 8
Esquire, March 1983. "Observations"
Box 8
National Geographic, May 1983. Quotation used as caption for photo in article on Brooklyn, p. 588
Box 13
Decade of Short Stories, 1943. "The Walls are Cold"
Series III: Works About Capote
Box 9
Avedon, Richard. Portraits. Noonday Press, 1977
Box 9
Breit, Harvey. The Writer Observed. World Publishing Co ., 1956.
Box 9
Brinnin, John M. Sextet. Deutsch. N.Y., 1981
Box 9
Brinnin, John M. Sextet. Deutsch. London, 1982
Box 9
Brinnin, John M., Truman Capote : A Memoir, London, 1987
Box 9
Clarke, Gerald. Capote: A Biography. London: Hamish Hamilton, circa, 1988
Box 9
Clarke, Gerald. Capote: A Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster, circa,, 1988
Box 9
Clarke, Gerald. Capote: A Biography London, Sphere Books, circa, 1988
Box 9
Contemporary American Poetry. Hong Kong: World Today Press, 1975
Box 9a
Garson, Helen. Truman Capote. Frederick Ungar, 1980.
Box 9a
Gotham Book Mart. Books from the library of Truman Capote with important additions, circa, 1983
Box 9a
Hallowell, John. Fact and Fiction, University of North Carolina Press,, 1977
Box 13
Krementz, Jill. Photograph of Truman Capote
Box 9a
Lish, Gordon. Dear Mr. Capote. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1983.
Box 9a
Lish, Gordon. Dear Mr. Capote Paperback. Sceptre, 1987.
Box 9a
Schorer, Mark. The World We Imagine. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.
Box 9a
Stein, Jean. Edie. Dell, 1983.
Box 9a
Wilson, Robert A. "Truman Capote: A Bibliographical Checklist" in American Book Collector, Vol. I, no. 4 , July / August, 1980.
Box 9a
Truman Capote Conversations, edited by M. Thomas Inge, University Press of Mississippi
Box 9a
Tru--playbill from the play at the Booth Theatre, 1989 December 14, 1989
Box 10
Club, March 1980 "Truman Capote on Sex, Drugs, Alcohol & Writing.", March1980
Box 10
The Grass Harp:A Musical.[Record Album] Painted Smiles Records, [1972 ?]
Box 10
The Great Capote, Playbills and announcements from various theaters
Box 13
The Great Capote, Playbill, 1985
Box 10
New York, February 9, 1976. "Capote Bites the Hands That Fed Him."
Box 10
New York, 10/29, 1984 "Unanswered Prayers: The Death and Life of Truman Capote.", October 29, 1984
Box 10
New York, November 26, 1984 "Unanswered Prayers, Part II.", November 26, 1984
Box 10
New York Times Magazine, 9 July 1978 "The Private World of Truman Capote.", July 1978
Box 10
New York Times Magazine, 16 July 1978 "Truman Capote's World." Part II, July 1978
Box 10
New York Times Magazine, 4 April, 1982. p. 99 regarding In Cold Blood.
Box 10
Truman Capote at Lincoln Center-Playbill (2 copies)
Box 10
Miscellaneous clippings and miscellaneous printed material
Box 12
"Truman Capote at Lincoln Center" poster, 22" x 14"
Box 12
"The Great Capote": Fortune Theater 2 different posters.
Box 13
Elmslie, Kenward. "Yellow Drum: A Musical Play" (t.m.s mimeograph). Based on "The Grass Harp", April 18, 1968