The third published book by the American author Truman Capote, Local Color includes notes and sketches about persons and places, including travel journal-style essays on the cities and countries Capote lived in or visited. This stated first printing is bound in black buckram and grey marbled boards, with silver leettering along spine, and bumped at edges. DJ chipped along all edges with closed tear at head of spine. Inscription to previous owner on first free endpaper, not by author.