In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used/No Jacket
- Seller
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Sheridan, Wyoming, United States
2 Copies Available from This Seller
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About This Item
Random House, January 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Used/No Jacket. First Edition, Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, Random House, New York. Fair condition; some chipping, edges worn, and some dampstaining. Missing the front endpaper. The spine is loosening from the front, and there are some holes on the back cover, probably from an animal nibble. The cloth is loose from the cover in one place.
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.
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Reviews
On Jan 30 2017, a reader said:
Wonderfully written true crime story.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Calamity Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7911
- Title
- In Cold Blood
- Author
- Truman Capote
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Date Published
- January 1965
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Calamity Books
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Sheridan, Wyoming
About Calamity Books
Calamity Books is a comprehensive, inclusive and diverse bookstore selling new and used books. We are a woman-owned store that specializes in providing excellent finds in all of the genres, as well as local rare and first editions, and local authors. Calamity Books is an inclusive and safe space.
Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
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