[First Edition] The Thanksgiving Visitor/A Christmas...

Hardcover, Book is in Near fine condition, the only fault being faded, slightly worn spine. The slipcase has several knicks as seen in photos. Photo of Capote and Ms Faulk covers both sides of the slipcase. A CHRISTMAS MEMORY: "The largely autobiographical story, which takes place in the 1930s, describes a period in the lives of the seven-year-old narrator and an elderly woman who is his distant cousin and best friend. The woman was Nanny Faulk, elder sister of the household where Capote's wayward parents deposited him as a young boy. Nanny, whom everyone called Sook, was thought to be developmentally disabled. But Capote later wrote a friend: "I had an elderly cousin, the woman in my story "A Christmas Memory,' who was a genius." Gift inscription on FFEP. otherwise unmarked.

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