The Grass Harp.

CAPOTE, Truman.

Item Number: 2836

New York: Random House, 1951.

First edition, first state binding. Octavo, original tan cloth, titles to spine in brown, green and black. Signed by Truman Capote on the front free endpaper. An excellent copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some rubbing to the extremities.

Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits--an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies--who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures and responsibilities of freedom. "The Grass Harp charms you into sharing the author’s feeling that there is a special poetry—a spontaneity and wonder and delight—in lives untarnished by conformity and common sense" (The Atlantic).