The Muses Are Heard

New York: Random House, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth backstrip lettered in white and blue with front inset in three colors. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. 182 pages. 21 x 14 cm. Capote's trip to the Soviet Union in 1955 to present "Porgy And Bess" in Leningrad, as a cultural exchange attempt at the height of the cold war. Almost as new copy in unclipped dust wrapper, tiny nicks at foot.