"A GIRL DOESN'T READ THIS SORT OF THING WITHOUT HER LIPSTICK": FIRST EDITION OF CAPOTE'S BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
CAPOTE, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany's. A Short Novel and Three Stories. New York: Random House, (1958). Octavo, original canary yellow cloth, original dust jacket. $3600.
First edition, advance review copy of the adventures of free-spirited Holly Golightly.
"If you want to capture a period in New York, no other book has done it so well… He could capture period and place like few others" (Norman Mailer). With three other stories: "House of Flowers," "A Diamond Guitar," and "A Christmas Memory." "First Printing" on copyright page. With publisher's advance review slip laid in.
A few small marginal marks to first few leaves of text, cloth with minor rubbing to spine; dust jacket with mild toning to spine a few short closed tears. An extremely good copy.