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Capote play about West Indian bordello

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Author: Capote, Truman & Harold Arlen
Title: House of Flowers
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Random House
Date Published: [1968]
Description:

Book by Truman Capote; Lyrics by Truman Capote and Harold Arlen; Music by Harold Arlen. With 3 plates from photographs, including the frontispiece. Cloth-backed boards, spine lettered in gilt, color pictorial dust jacket. First Edition.

Capote's first venture into musical theatre, an adaptation of his own novella about the ladies of a bordello in the French West Indies. First presented on Broadway in 1954, it was revived off-Broadway in 1968 and didn't fare much better, although it did occasion this first publication of its book and lyrics. (This is one of those anomalous books for which Random House did not explicitly state "First Printing"; $4.50 printed price on the unclipped jacket.).
Condition Report: A touch or shelf wear, near fine to fine in like jacket.

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Heading:
Author: Capote, Truman & Harold Arlen
Title: House of Flowers
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Random House
Date Published: [1968]
Description:

Book by Truman Capote; Lyrics by Truman Capote and Harold Arlen; Music by Harold Arlen. With 3 plates from photographs, including the frontispiece. Cloth-backed boards, spine lettered in gilt, color pictorial dust jacket. First Edition.

Capote's first venture into musical theatre, an adaptation of his own novella about the ladies of a bordello in the French West Indies. First presented on Broadway in 1954, it was revived off-Broadway in 1968 and didn't fare much better, although it did occasion this first publication of its book and lyrics. (This is one of those anomalous books for which Random House did not explicitly state "First Printing"; $4.50 printed price on the unclipped jacket.).
Condition Report: A touch or shelf wear, near fine to fine in like jacket.

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