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Beautiful facsimile duplicate of the original FIRST EDITION hardcover book and Dust Jacket in a slipcase in AS NEW FINE condition Slipcase in new fine condition.Appears UNREAD.Bright clean tight. Boards and spine are straight // Binding is tight.//Pages are clean, legible, and bright // No previous owner names//No writing in the book margins or blank spaces // No underlining. No highlighting// No foxing// Not Ex Library// Not a Book Club//No remainder mark.//We ship 5 days a week.ShelfORITLcase

An enduring classic, and one that richly deserves the very special treatment of this gorgeous leather bound special limited edition designer classic from Penguin. Any collector will be delighted with this permanent edition, designed for a long life, and a really aesthetic one too. Here, at last, we have a PERFECT Special Edition, and a first edition thus. Penguin asked the brilliant leather designer, Bill Amberg, to design a six book set. Amberg chose vegetable tanned buffalo skin from 'fallen animals' - which means they died from natural causes. The skins were processed in a totally ecological way, where the water is recycled after filtering through reed beds. The resultant leather is tough and aesthetic, and, like all great leather bindings, can only improve with handling. Amberg has used Yapp binding, where the leather overlaps the exposed edges of the text block. Such bindings are limp, with rounded corners, so the leather edges protect the text block as the y soften and envelope the pages. The leather edges are beautifully sewn. Additionally, there is a tethered bookmark in the same material which bears the book's title. At the base of the leather spine is a blind embossed Penguin logo. This is a truly delightful production, and it comes inside a blond card box. The box is secured with a beautiful paper sash. Inside the book is a paper slip that reveals the details of the production process. This is a much-coveted series, and this is the first printing thus, denoted by the '1' on the copyright page. Only 1000 copies were issued of each title, and therefore this is part of a limited luxury edition. Now becoming RARE. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng

Capote, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany's: A short novel and three stories. New York: Random House, 1958. First edition, first issue printing. Signed by Truman Capote. In the original publisher s orange first issue dust jacket and yellow cloth binding. Presented with an archival clamshell case. This is a signed, first edition, first issue of Truman Capote's classic novella chronicling the adventures of the free-spirited Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany's. In addition to the title novella, the book also includes three other short stories: House of Flowers, A Diamond Guitar, and A Christmas Memory. The book is issued its first issue dust jacket with the 10/58 date code one the front flap. "First Printing" is stated on the copyright page and the book signed by the author Truman Capote on the front flyleaf. Capote originally sold his story Breakfast at Tiffany's to Harper's Bazaar for $2,000, with intended publication in its July 1958 issue. Shortly after the publication was scheduled, Harper's editor Carmel Snow was ousted by the magazine's publisher, the Hearst Corporation, and Hearst executives began asking for changes to the novella's language as there was concern that Tiffany's & Co., a major advertiser, would react negatively. The story was removed from the Harper s Bazzar publication schedule but Capote soon resold the work to Esquire for $3,000. His novella appeared in Esquire s November 1958 issue. A collection of the Breakfast at Tiffany s novella and three short stories by Capote was published by Random House in the same year. The novella received glowing reviews. "If you want to capture a period in New York, no other book has done it so well. He could capture a period and place like few others" (Norman Mailer). The novella was quickly adapted for the 1961 hit film starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard. Truman Capote was born in New Orleans and educated in New York and Connecticut. He worked in the Art Department of The New Yorker and as a writer on a television show before going on his own as a full-time writer. His first novel at age 24, Other Voices, Other Rooms, brought him literary fame and a strong following, which continued throughout his life, reaching a peak with the success of his "nonfiction true crime novel In Cold Blood. Capote s story, Shut a Final Door, won the O. Henry award in 1946. CONDITION: Very good condition. Octavo. Retains the original first issue orange dust jacket, now protected with a mylar sleeve. Dust jacket is price-clipped, with minimal chipping and surface wear. Some fading to the spine, but otherwise in very good color. Book is presented in original hardcover yellow cloth binding with black spine. Binding is tight with only a light slant to the spine. Signed by the author in black ink on the front flyleaf. The signature reads Truman Capote. Interior pages are healthy, with stated "First Printing" on the copyright page. Book Dimensions: 8 1/4" H x 5 3/4" W x 1 1/8" D. Book is presented with a new archival clamshell case. Case is 1/4 leather and cloth, with raised bands and girl tooling to the spine and an inlaid photograph of Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly on the front.