Other Voices Other Rooms [SIGNED]

New York: Random House, 1948. Third printing. Hardcover. Good to very good condition. Octavo. [6] 251pp. Original tan cloth, green ruling on cover and spine, red lettering on spine; original black dustjacket with tan lettering on spine. Toned top edge. Signed "Truman Capote" on half-title.

"Capote's first novel, like his shorter tales, expresses a delicate and highly personal fusion of the familiar, the everyday, the "realistic," with the strange, the perilous, and even the ghostly." (Publisher). Semi-autobiographical novel (based on the author's Alabama childhood). Capote: "an attempt to exorcise demons, an unconscious, altogether intuitive attempt, for I was not aware, except for a few incidents and descriptions, of its being in any serious degree autobiographical. Rereading it now, I find such self-deception unpardonable" (Capote, The Dogs Bark, a collection of essays and travel sketches, 1973)."

Dustjacket with light chipping along top and bottom edges, small closed tear at bottom edge front cover, price-clipped and lightly creased at front foredge inside flap. Binding with minor sunning along edges, and some light damp-staining on inside covers.