First Garden by C.Z. Guest (SIGNED)
GUEST, C.Z. First Garden. New York: G.P. Putman’s Sons, 1976.
With an Introduction by Truman Capote. Illustrations in the book and dust jacket by Cecil Beaton. Book design by Bea Feitler.
First edition. This was Guest’s first of several books on gardening. Warmly inscribed in Guest’s typical green pen, “To John [Loring?], with great admiration, Happy gardening, C.Z. Guest, Jan ’79.”
4to, original cloth. 127pp, illus. Very good in very good dust jacket (slight wear to spine ends).
‘As Raymond Chandler remarked of his femme fatale in The Long Goodbye: “There are blondes, and then there are blondes.” Mrs Guest, shimmering in the blue smoky light, was one of the latter. Her hair, parted in the middle and paler than Dom Perignon, was but a shade darker than the dress she was wearing, a Mainbocher column of white crepe de chine. No jewelry, not much makeup; just blanc de blanc perfection.’ (from Capote’s Introduction)