4to. Illustrated with watercolors by Barry Moser. Original boards; dust jacket. 

 

FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. Accompanied by another signed copy (no dust jacket). Originally written in 1946 as a gift for Capote’s aunt, it was not published until three years before this illustrated edition.

 

[With:] 

 

[MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. RUDISILL, Marie. Sook’s Cookbook. Memories and Traditional Receipts from the Deep South. Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Press, 1989.  

 

4to. Illustrated with watercolors by Barry Moser. Original boards; dust jacket. 

 

FIRST EDITION of a cookbook collected by Truman Capote’s aunt. SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. ACCOMPANIED BY AN ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR DRAWING FOR AN ILLUSTRATION, a portrait  of Truman Capote’s cousin, Jenny Faulk, signed and dated 1989. With a signed statement from Moser recounting his friendship with Rudisill which developed over the course of illustrating this book, and resulted in her sending Moser a gift of a family quilt with log cabin design, which Truman Capote had while he was a boy. THE ORIGINAL QUILT ACCOMPANIES THIS LOT. 

The quilt: 
A Pieced Cotton Log Cabin Quilt, circa 1925
73 x 65 inches.