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Franklin Library leather edition of Truman Capote's "Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories," one of the COLLECTED STORIES OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST WRITERS series, Illustrated by Kenneth Francis Dewey, published in 1923. Bound in purple leather, the book has ivory French moire silk end leaves, hubbed spine, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, a satin book marker, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. Truman Streckfus Persons, who lived from 1924 – 1984, known as Truman Capote, was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. "Breakfast at Tiffany's" has been described as a humorous portrait of a Manhattan playgirl, eighteen-year-old HOLLY GOLIGHTLY. Set on the fashionable Upper East Side in war-time 1943, the novel is told in flashbacks by a young unpublished writer whom Holly calls Fred, after her adored brother. Both newly arrived in New York, Holly and Fred, who live in the same brownstone, meet late one evening when Holly climbs up the fire escape and through his window to escape her drunken date. . .Holly confesses that "I've only had eleven lovers" and Fred is fascinated. A cast of outrageous characters regularly gathers in Holly's apartment for hilarious, rowdy parties. "House of Flowers" and "A Diamond Guitar" are both delicate stories, in spite of the fact that they deal with, respectively, prostitutes and convicts. Capote paints the prostitute OTTILIE in "House of Flowers" with delicacy. "A Christmas Memory" is the story of a seven-year-old boy, BUDDY, and his cousin, an elderly woman in tennis shoes who Buddy calls my friend. They bake fruitcakes and deliver them to elderly friends in a dilapidated baby carriage. The thirty-one cakes are made of cherries and citron, ginger and vanilla and canned Hawaiian pineapple, rinds and raisins and walnuts and whiskey---a somewhat autobiographical retelling of Capote's own childhood in Alabama. 174 pages---a RARE title. I offer combined shipping.
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