Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Truman Capote. Signed first edition

Jan 28, 2015 | Videos

First edition presentation copy inscribed by Capote on the front free endpaper, “for Martha Robertson, with love, Truman Capote”. The recipient was Martha Hunt Robertson (1931-2014), an art teacher from Guntersville, Alabama, who in 1977 married noted journalist-novelist William Bradford Huie (1910–1986), of Hartselle, Alabama.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s is rare inscribed – we have only ever handled one other.

All our catalogued works by Truman Capote can be viewed online here.

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