“DON’T FORGET. PLEASE FEED THE CAT”: FIRST EDITION OF 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. $4400.
First edition of the adventures of free-spirited Holly Golightly, an exceptionally lovely copy in scarce in original dust jacket.
"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."
A splendid copy in a bright price-clipped dust jacket with none of the usual spine toning, small faint spot of soiling to front panel. An outstanding copy.