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TRUMAN CAPOTE: FRAMED U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT ADVERTISEMENT

1966 · 23802 — New York City NY: Newsweek 1966. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket As Issued. New York City NY: Newsweek 1966. Hardcover. Fine/None As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 1 pages. Rare Truman Capote and Irving Penn collectible piece. A fine framed copy of the original actual advertisement NOT a contemporary digital copy print of the author appearing on behalf of U. S. News And World Report signed by Truman Capote. The advertisement is "blow-up" oversize at 10 X 14 inches. Elegantly and beautifully framed in black matte finish increasing the overall size slightly. Features the author in a closeup portrait-photograph taken by Irving Penn: A pensive-looking Truman Capote post-"In Cold Blood" triumph at the liminal height of both his global renown and impending personal disaster. Although the photographer is not acknowledged Capote himself mentions him in "Conversations With American Writers" and is one of several portraits taken by Irving Penn the only other major artist to photograph him extensively aside from Avedon. There is very minimal text printed at the bottom. As such it is eminently suitable for display. Printed on archival stock paper in the United States. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect: It has lost almost none of its original sepia-toned clarity and warmth when it first appeared. Without DJ as issued. Presents "Truman Capote: U. S. New And World Report Advertisement". Marks the very first appearance of Truman Capote on behalf of the legendary publication. The text underneath Capote's vast portrait simply states: "We spare our readers unimportant news. We spare our advertisers unimportant readers". Meaning the publication and Capote matter as serious subjects. Furthermore that Truman Capote is an important reader himself worth reaching by advertisers. For all of his private and public troubles Truman Capote mattered throughout his literary and public life - and posthumously too. ALL of his books not just "In Cold Blood" are in innumerable subsequent printings and have remained in print uninterruptedly. This is surely and mainly because "In Cold Blood" is the most important and influential book of its kind ever written in the 20th century. Capote himself called it the "first nonfiction novel". Norman Mailer on the one hand and Joan Didion on the other emulated its ground-breaking techniques to write their own masterpieces. An absolute "must-have" collectible not just memorabilia piece for Truman Capote collectors. This copy of the U. S. News And World Report Advertisement is very prominently neatly and beautifully signed in blue fountain pen on recto underneath his portrait by Truman Capote. It is signed directly on the advertisement itself not on a tipped-in page or bookplate. This piece is a collectible classic. As far as we know this is the only such signed copy of it beautifully framed available online and is in remarkably well-preserved condition: Clean crisp and bright. Please note: Keep in mind that this is ephemera therefore most if not all other copies vanished a long time ago. It is the only signed copy we have ever found and will ever find. A rare one-of-a-kind signed copy thus. Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" is regarded by Harold Bloom as the author's canonical masterpiece. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine collectible piece. SEE ALSO OTHER TRUMAN CAPOTE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG. Newsweek hardcover