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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
Box 2 Los perros ladran. Madrid: Ultramar Editores, 1976
Box 2 I cani abbaiano. Milano: Garzanti, 1976
The Grass Harp--Novel
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
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
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
Box 3 Signet/NAL //W4385 22nd printing
Box 3 Sphere, 1981.
Box 3 Abacus, 1984
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
Box 4 Modern Library, #P35, [1958 ?]
Box 4 Vintage #V148
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
Box 4 Signet/NAL, 1981 & l4th printing, 1981
Box 4 Sphere, 1982. [1st printing thus, 1981]
Box 4 Musica para Camaleones. Bruguera, undated Paperbound, undated
Box 4 Musique pour Cameleons. Gallimard, 1982. Paperbound & with d / j .
Manuscripts
Box 13 Photocopy with author's handwritten corrections, 330 pp., 3 folders
Box 5 Other Voices Other Rooms
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
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
Box 5 Signet/NAL #878, 1951. 1st printing.
Box 5 Penguin, 1978 reprint. [1st printing, 1967], 1978
Box 5 Un Arbre de Nuit. Gallimard, 1953. #24 of 80.
Trilogy
Box 5 NY: Collier Books, 1971. #07934.
Box 13 Autograph
