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BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
by Truman Capote
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
US: Random House, 1958. First Edition, second printing. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, Second Printing. Vibrant yellow cloth over boards with yellow particulars in black compartment and publisher's emblem in silver to spine. Light soiling to margins of a few pages throughout; text is clean and unmarked. Text block and endpages are soiled; top edge sprayed black is lightly faded; small black scuff mark to lower edge. Boards are bright; soiling to top edge and right corner at front board; corners and ends of spine bumped. Binding is tight, spine is slightly cocked. Dust jacket is lightly soiled with chipping and closed tears to edges, corners and ends of spine; blue pen mark through price at front flap. Dust jacket is covered in a protective mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64311
- Title
- BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
- Author
- Truman Capote
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, second printing
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- Literature
Terms of Sale
Atlanta Vintage Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
Biblio member since 2007
Chamblee, Georgia
About Atlanta Vintage Books
Welcome to Atlanta Vintage Books, serving book lovers locally and worldwide for over 30 years. Our 5,000 square foot book store houses over 70,000 vintage, rare and out of print books. You'll be greeted with a smile when you enter but left alone as you browse. Our staff is friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. Special orders are happily accommodated, as hard-to-find and out-of-print editions are a specialty. Our store is light and airy with plate glass windows letting in plenty of natural light and wonderfully decorated with antique display cases, old barrister bookcases, and wood book shelves. The wide aisles and scattered seating make browsing a joy. You'll wonder where the time went.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
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