House of Flowers

  • New York: Random House, 1968
By CAPOTE, Truman
New York: Random House, 1968. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; beige paper over black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and publisher's logo blindstamped to front cover; yellow topstain; dustjacket; 110, [2]; photographic frontispiece. Hint of foxing to topstain, else Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dustjacket - still bright white - with a few pinpoint rubs to extremities. A musical comedy concerning two neighboring bordellos in an idealized Haitian town. Lyrics were co-written by Capote and Harold Arlen. Sharp copy.

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