From Truman Capote's Library
Pentimento.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1973.
Price: $300.00
About the item
First edition. 8vo. Quarter bound black and red cloth, blind and gilt stamped on cover and spine; dust jacket worn; tear on front inexpertly repaired with tape on recto; tears to top and bottom edges and head and tail of spine; front flap creased.
Item #368218
Capote’s ownership initials on first free endpaper, with annotated receipt from the restaurant “Le Louis XIV” in Paris laid in. Hellman and Capote were what would today be called Frenemies (as were many in Capote's circle).
