Breakfast At Tiffany’s manuscript sells for €418,000 at auction

The typescript, covered in hundreds of Capote’s handwritten edits, sold to an anonymous buyer at Sotheby’s London for more than double the pre-sale estimate.

The typescript, covered in hundreds of Capote’s handwritten edits, sold to an anonymous buyer at Sotheby’s London for more than double the pre-sale estimate.

Truman Capote’s final manuscript for Breakfast At Tiffany’s has sold for £377,000 (€418,000) at auction.

The typescript, covered in hundreds of Capote’s handwritten edits, sold to an anonymous buyer at Sotheby’s London for more than double the pre-sale estimate of £120,000-£180,000 (€133,000-€200,000).

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