CAPOTE, TRUMAN. 1924-1984.
In Cold Blood. New York: Random House, 1965.
Publisher's maroon cloth gilt, dust jacket in black, white and red. Wear to spine ends and small tear to lower right corner on front of jacket, wear to cloth, thumbed.
PRESENTATION COPY TO JOANNE CARSON, first edition, third printing, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED on the half title: "For Joanne, from her friend, Truman." After her divorce from Tonight Show host Johnny Carson in 1971, Joanne moved to a house on Sunset Boulevard in Bel Air. She gave Capote two bedrooms for his use, making it his Los Angeles base for several months a year. He died in Joanne's house in August 1984.