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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
by CAPOTE, TRUMAN
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in a near fine dust jacket/Near Fine
- Seller
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Potomac, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine in a near fine dust jacket with minor rubbing and chipping on the edge. Rare first state dustjacket (5.95 price intact and the 1/66 on the bottom front flap). Publishers rust color cloth, gilt title and initials, with matching rust endpapers. Top edge blue. Capote's ground-breaking nonfiction work on the murder of the Clutter family in 1959. Dated 1965 to title page, but actually published in January 1966. 8vo, 343pp.An excellent copy, very scarce thus.
Synopsis
In Cold Blood is a nonfiction book by American author Truman Capote. The book details the brutal 1959 murders of Herbert Clutter, a wealthy farmer from Holcomb, Kansas, and his wife and two of their children. When Capote learned of the quadruple murder before the killers were captured, he decided to travel to Kansas and write about the crime.
Reviews
On Jan 30 2017, a reader said:
Wonderfully written true crime story.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grinning Cat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10976
- Title
- In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
- Author
- CAPOTE, TRUMAN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in a near fine dust jacket
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
Terms of Sale
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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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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