breakfast at tiffany, truman capote, First Edition, 1958 max, US$ 500 min

Book Description: Random House, New York, 1958. Hardcover. First edition. A name neatly erased on the front fly, else fine in very good or better dustwrapper with less than the usual spine-fading. Signed by the author. A collection of the title novella and three short stories: "House of Flowers," "A Diamond Guitar," and "A Christmas Memory." George Axelrod scripted the Blake Edwards film of the title novella that featured Audrey Hepburn in one of her most appealing roles as Holly Golightly. Scarce signed. See this book in 3D on our site. Bookseller Inventory # 285455

Book Description: New York, Random House, 1958, 1958. Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in pink morocco, black morocco title label, title to spine silver, black leather onlay silhouette of Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly with real diamond jewellery, black plain endpapers, twin rule to turn-ins silver, all edges silver. A fine copy. First edition, first printing. Bookseller Inventory # 50155

Book Description: New York: Random House, 1958, 1958. Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in pink morocco, black morocco title label, title to spine silver, black leather onlay silhouette of Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly with real diamond jewellery, black plain endpapers, twin rule to turn-ins silver, all edges silver. Housed in a custom made black velvet, draw-string bag. A fine copy. First edition, first printing. Bookseller Inventory # 72060

Book Description: Random House, New York, 1958. hardcover. Book Condition: very good(+). Dust Jacket Condition: poor. First. The black spine panel on the spine is slightly rubbed, The dust wrapper has a large chip on the top of the spine and front cover, but is intact, and not price-clipped. Truman Capote has autographed the front flyleaf. 179pp., 8vo, yellow cloth, d.w. N.Y.: Random House, (1958). First Edition. Bookseller Inventory # 208029

Book Description: Random House, 1958. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing with "First Printing" printed on the copyright page. This copy is SIGNED by Capote on a laid in signature. An attractive dustjacket that has some light wear to the spine and edges. This original dustjacket has the $3.50 price printed on the front flap, and colors on the panels are sharp. The book is in nice shape. The binding is tight, with no cocking and the boards are crisp with light wear to the edges. The pages are clean, with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION SIGNED by the author. Trades and offers considered. Bookseller Inventory # ABE-4663000700

Book Description: Random House, New York, 1958. hardcover. Book Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First. The dust wrapper spine is slightly faded & there is a tiny chip at one corner, but otherwise a fine copy of an increasingly hard book to find in such condition. 179pp., 8vo, yellow cloth, d.w. N.Y.: Random House, (1958). First Edition. Bookseller Inventory # 211235

Book Description: Random House, New York, 1958. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Bookplate to front free endpaper. Wear & chipping to priceclipped DJ with small closed tears; Stated first printing. DJ 10/58 to bottom of front flap. Yellow boards; 8vo; 179 pages. Bookseller Inventory # 10215

Book Description: Random House, 1958. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine first edition in a fine dust jacket, signed by Truman Capote on a tipped-in page. First Printing stated on the copyright page. First issue dust jacket (indicated by $3.50 price and 10/58 on front flap). The collection includes the novella Breakfast at Tiffanys, and the short stories House of Flowers, A Diamond Guitar and A Christmas Memory. Comes in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Signed by Author(s). Bookseller Inventory # 106944

Book Description: Random House, 1958. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. A spectacular dustjacket with a hint of wear to the spine ends. This original FIRST ISSUE DUSTJACKET is vibrant in color and seldom seen in this nice condition. The book is in excellent shape. The binding is tight, and the boards are fresh with slight wear to the panels. The pages are exceptionally clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a sharp clean copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION in collector's condition. Bookseller Inventory # ABE-6707700704

Book Description: Random House, 1958. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Yellow cloth binding, black/gilt titles, light grey topstain. Stated first printing. Book near fine with minor edge soil, slight wear to bottom corner of front board. DJ in Mylar very good; chipped at heel of spine, sunned at spine, small surface tear to front panel, minor soil. Price-clipped but dated 10/58. 179 pp. Book. Bookseller Inventory # 5906

Book Description: Random House, 1958. First edition, first printing. Spine label rubbed, else near fine in a good but darkened dust jacket with chipping to spine tips and corners, spine sunned, in mylar cover. Signed by the author. Bookseller Inventory # Embry 108049

Book Description: Random House, New York, 1958. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Stated First Printing. The book is in fine condition; and in a near fine dust jacket, with some tanning to spine, a few tiny closed tears, and light edge wear. Bookseller Inventory # 001570

Book Description: Random House, 1958. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Beautiful first edition in near fine dust jacket, not price-clipped, much less faded than usual on spine, comes in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Original price of $3.50 still on front flap of dj, and code date of 10/58. Bookseller Inventory # 106970

Book Description: New York: Random House, 1958. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. 8vo, yellow cloth boards. A fine copy; dust-jacket has the usual sunning, light soiling to rear panel and small spot to bottom of front panel, otherwise attractive. Bookseller Inventory # ABE-1197393268

Book Description: Random House, 1958. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST PRINTING of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. Published in New York by Random House, 1958. First Printing stated on copyright page. Flap price reads $3.50. Book in near fine condition except for bookseller's sticker on front board and previous author's name on front board. DJ in near fine condition except for very minor fading on back cover, small white mark on front cover and slight chipping on spine tips. Book comes in specially made cloth slipcase. Bookseller Inventory # 0105444

Book Description: Random House, New York, 1958. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine-. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Printing (so stated). 8vo: [8],179,[1]pp. Publisher's canary yellow cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gold on a black field, top edge stained gray; in the tangerine first issue (with $3.50 and 10/58 on the front flap) Ismar David dust jacket. An exceptional example, with virtually none of the usual fading to the jacket spine. Just about Fine (minor loss of black to the spine, which is lightly creased; usual offsetting to the end papers), in a jacket that presents as Fine after very minor restoration to the spine tips. Besides the title novella, filmed by Blake Edwards with Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, collected are "House of Flowers," "A Diamond Guitar," and "A Christmas Memory." Practically on publication, Holly Golightly became a literary icon—"expressing that essential sense of freedom and openness to life that Capote so dearly valued." In many of his stories and early novels, and especially in Breakfast at Tiffany's, Capote engages the subject of travel, "epitomized, now, in his most legendary fictional heroine, who resembles no one more than Capote himself, and who, as the name on her calling card suggests ("Miss Holiday Golightly . . . Traveling"), transforms life into an everyday holiday." (Literary Encyclopedia) Note: With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Bookseller Inventory # BB0967

Book Description: Random House, 1958. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A near fine first edition in a very good dust jacket with the original price of $3.50 and the date code of 10/58 on the front flap. First printing stated on the copyright page. Comes in a custom-made collector's slipcase. The spine of the dust jacket is slightly faded, as is typical for this book. Bookseller Inventory # 107209

Book Description: Random House, 1958. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Published in New York by Random House in 1958. First Printing stated on copyright page. In First Issue DJ (indicated by $3.50 price and 10/58 on front flap). This novella was the basis for the movie by the same name that starred Audrey Hepburn. Book near fine. DJ very good, with spine less faded than usual. DJ price reads $3.50. Book comes in specially made cloth slipcase. Bookseller Inventory # 0105083

Book Description: New York: Random House, 1958, 1st printing stated., 1958. Yellow 8vo. hardcover with black and gilt spine titles, 179 pages. Slight dulling of exteriors, endpapers browned. Has a neat bookplate inside front cover. Text is clean and tight. Very Good or better condition. In a Very Good, priced dust jacket ($ 3.50). Dust jacket has light chipping to top edge of front flap and slight darkening to flap creases and back panel. Dust jacket is in a glassine wrapper. [Catalog-First Editions]. Bookseller Inventory # 03423

Book Description: Random House, 1958. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A near fine first edition in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with the original date code of 10/58 on the front flap. First printing stated on the copyright page. Comes in a custom-made collector's slipcase. The spine of the dust jacket is less sun-faded than usual for this book. Previous owner's signature and December, 1958 date on front free endpaper. Some staining on front pastedown, possibly from original glue used in making the book. Bookseller Inventory # 107210

Book Description: New York. Random House. 1958., 1958. First Edition with "First Printing" stated on the copyright page. The book "Breakfast at Tiffany's" includes the novella: "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and thre shorter pieces: "House of Flowers," "A Diamond Guitar," and "A Christmas Memory." A very good copy in mustard-colored finely woven cloth stamped brightly in black and gilt on the spine. Very clean and unmarked throughout. With light topstaining. In a colorful pictorial orange dustjacket featuring a charcoal sketch of Capote on the rear panel. Jacket designed by Ismar David. The inside front flap has the original price of $3.00 at the top and the requisite 10/58 at the bottom of the flap. The jacket is lightly chipped and missing some small pieces at the top and bottom of the spine ends as well as at the corners. The orange spine is sunfaded, making it difficult to see the white lettering of the titles. The black inked "Truman Capote" and "Random House" are very clear. Overall, a handsome, collectible copy. First Edition with "First Printing" stated on the copyright page. Bookseller Inventory # 6951

Book Description: Random House, New York, 1958. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. David, Ismar (Jacket Design) (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed by Truman Capote at front endpaper: "For Larry Whiffen, With good wishes, Truman Capote". Fourth printing. Beige full cloth boards, gilt spine titles on black fields, fine. Pages fine, lt. tanning at endpapers. Dj fine; unclipped 4.95, protected in new, clear sleeve. Classic first edition jacket design by Ismar David w/orange cover, white titles and drawing of Capote at back; 10/58 at front flap. Rare tangible. Includes three of Capote's best-known stories, "House of Flowers," "A Diamond Guitar," and "A Christmas Memory," in addition to his bestselling novella, "Breakfast at Tiffany's," the popular story of Holly Golightly. The novella's prose style prompted Norman Mailer to call Capote "the most perfect writer of my generation," adding that he "would not have changed two words in Breakfast at Tiffany's". The heroine of Breakfast at Tiffany's, Holly Golightly, became one of Capote's best-known creations and a cultural icon. Capote acknowledged she was the favorite of his characters. Capote weaves a tale of a year-long friendship, from autumn of 1943 to '44, between Holiday Golightly and the story's narrator. The two are both tenants in a brownstone on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Holiday Golightly is a country girl turned café society girl who makes her living coaxing dollars from rich, older gentlemen; and, the narrator is an aspiring writer. Holly, who likes to stun people with carefully selected bits from her personal life and her outspoken opinions, slowly reveals herself to the narrator who finds himself fascinated. Ultimately, Holly fears she will never know what is really hers until she discards it. Truman Capote based Holly's character on several women including Gloria Vanderbilt, Oona Chaplin, and Walter Matthau's wife, Carol Grace. There are also many similarities between Holly and his mother, Nina Capote. Both were from the rural south with similar birth names they changed - Holly Golightly's character was born Lula Mae Barnes in Texas, and Nina Capote was born Lillie Mae Faulk in Alabama. Additionally, both left husbands they married as teenagers, abandoned close relatives making their way to New York, and they both achieved Cafe Society status through relations w/wealthier men. Manufactured in the United States of America by The Haddon Craftsman. 179 pages. Insured post. Signed by Author(s). Book. Bookseller Inventory # 016571

Book Description: Random House, New York, 1958. Hardback. 1st Edition. Binding is tight. Yellow cloth boards moderately dust-soiled, spine label rubbed. Dustjacket unchipped though sunned at spine and showing several spots on rear panel. Small tightly closed tear at top front panel. Bookseller Inventory # 49442

Book Description: Random House, 1958. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good first printing (with First Printing stated on the copyright page) in a very good dust jacket, with the spine sun-faded as usual, but with original price of $3.50 and date code of 10/58 on front flap. With owner's signature and 1958 date on front free endpaper. Bookseller Inventory # 107243

Book Description: Random House, New York, 1958. Cloth. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. An extremely handsome copy of the first printing, published by Random House in 1958. The book is fine. Dust jacket near fine with just a touch of toning to the off-white panels and light darkening to the spine. Both book and jacket uncommonly nice. The collection includes the novella Breakfast at Tiffanys, and the short stories House of Flowers, A Diamond Guitar and A Christmas Memory. Bookseller Inventory # 004139

Book Description: London, Hamish Hamilton, 1958, 1958. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo., pp. 159. Publisher's red cloth in dustwrapper. Minor toning, near fine. A lovely fresh copy. Uncommon thus. A lovely copy of this novella, which was adapted into one of the most romantic films of all time, starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard. Bookseller Inventory # 38196

Book Description: Random House, 1958. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good first edition in very good dust jacket, some offsetting from a newspaper on front pastedown and free endpaper. Jacket is price-clipped but first issue with "10/58" and First Printing is stated on the copyright page. Bookseller Inventory # 106976

Book Description: London - Hamish Hamilton, 1958. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. First edition. A scarce UK first edition of what is possiblyCapote's most famous work. Bound in paper-covered boards, with gilt lettering and an unclipped dustwrapper. Jacket design by Patricia Davey. Includes the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's, along withthree short stories, House of Flowers, A Diamond Guitar, and A Christmas Memory. Condition: The binding is itght and firm. There is very slight wear to the extremities. The dustwrapper has slight bumping and discolouration, with some very small closed tears. Internally the pages are generally clean with slight browning to the edges and the very occasional spot. Overall the condition isfine,with afine dustwrapper. Bookseller Inventory # 019810

Book Description: Hamish Hamilton, London, 1958. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine+. First Impression. First UK Edition. 8vo; 159pp. Publisher's scarlet cloth, the spine stamped in silver; in a dust jacket illustrated by Patricia Davey and priced at 12s/6d. Fine, the cloth clean and bright, the spine lettering brilliant; in a Near Fine or better jacket, with wear and a single small chip (without loss of lettering) to the head of the spine and dust-soiled edges. The author's seventh book (following The Muses are Heard), a novella (Breakfast At Tiffany's) and three short stories (House Of Flowers, A Diamond Guitar and A Christmas Memory). Yet another example of the value to be found in the graphically superior designs of most UK editions of American authors' works (our specialty). Note: With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Bookseller Inventory # BB0586