39 BAUMAN RARE BOOKS “A Girl Doesn’t Read This Sort Of Thing Without Her Lipstick” 41CAPOTE, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. New York, (1958). Octavo, original yellow cloth, dust jacket. $6000 First edition of the adventures of free-spirited Holly Golightly. A beautiful copy, most unusual in this condition. “If you want to capture a period in New York, no other book has done it so well… He could capture period and place like few others” (Norman Mailer). With three other stories: “House of Flowers,” “A Diamond Guitar,” and “A Christmas Memory.” Book with one very small mark to rear board, dust jacket bright and beautiful with none of the usual toning to the spine, small stain to rear panel. A nearly fine copy. “An’ You Get To Tend The Rabbits” 42STEINBECK, John. Of Mice and Men. New York, 1937. Small octavo, original beige cloth, dust jacket, custom slipcase. $9500 First edition, first issue, of Steinbeck’s “beautifully written [and] marvelous picture of the tragedy of loneliness” (Eleanor Roosevelt), in scarce original dust jacket. Steinbeck began Of Mice and Men as a children’s story. “Although the finished novelette does not seem appropriate for children—that intention was obviously abandoned—the simplicity of its style and the clarity and precision of its imagery may well have been prompted by this original purpose… “ (Benson, 326). The result is “a sophisticated and artful rendering of the basic conflict between two worlds: between an idealized landscape and the real world with its pain and anguish” (Literary History of the American West, 433). A beautiful copy in very nearly fine condition, with little of the usual toning to the dust jacket spine.
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