From Truman Capote's Library
My Belief: Essays on Life and Art.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974.
Price: $300.00
About the item
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Black cloth, stamped in gilt on cover and spine; dust jacket spine and fore edges sunned; light overall shelf wear; front flap creased.
Item #368201
Capote’s ownership initials on first free endpaper, with his ink annotations to p. 50-51, dog-eared, in the essay "Artists and Psychoanalysis": "...in a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its guard from the gates, the ideas rush in pell-mell, and only then does the intellext survey and riticize the hole assembly"
