“Girl Campers” by Patricia Highsmith [first published work, in:] Woman’s World. July, 1935.

Rare juvenilia by Patricia Highsmith foreshadowing her literary career

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Patricia Highsmith’s earliest published work: a series of letters written at age twelve from a girls’ summer camp, issued two years later when she was fourteen, together with four of her cartoons. The correspondence blends the ordinary observations of a young girl with striking foreshadowings of Highsmith’s later life: passing references to comics, to questions of sexuality, and to the world of publishing. A rare piece of juvenilia by the future author of Strangers on a Train and the Tom Ripley novels.

Price: $300.00