A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote & Beth Peck [PICTUREBOOK EDITION] 1989 • Alfred A Knopf

A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote

FIRST EDITION THUS [1989] ALFRED A KNOPF

Children's Picture Book Adaptation of this early Truman Capote story.  

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.   Dust jacket has some edge wear and a few sealed and reinforced creases on rear.   

Book itself is excellent.  Pristine cloth bound boards.  Clean, bright pages that read as new.  *gift inscription on front endpaper. 

“The mill owner's wife persists: 'A dollar, my foot! Fifty cents. That's my last offer. Goodness, woman, you can get another one.' In answer, my friend gently reflects: 'I doubt it. There's never two of anything.”

'A Christmas Memory' is a short story written by Truman Capote, first published in 1956. This much sought-after autobiographical recollection of Capote's rural Alabama boyhood has become a modern-day classic.

Seven-year-old Buddy knows that the Christmas season has arrived when his cousin, Miss Sook Falk exclaims: "It's fruitcake weather!" Thus begins an unforgettable portrait of an odd, but enduring, friendship between two innocent souls—one young and one old—and the memories they share of beloved holiday rituals.