In Cold Blood

VERY GOOD condition — Firm binding. Crisp exterior. Clean, unmarked pages. NOTES: A couple of very small specks, middle of front board. Please inspect photos closely for condition details.

This text was featured in the Easton Press series Great Books of the 20th Century. Published in 2000, bound in handsome Tan leather, and strikingly illustrated by Alan Reingold, this edition would be a worthy addendum to your collectible books library.

Specifics of this series from the Easton Press website:

• Fully and tightly bound in genuine leather
  * 22kt gold accents deeply inlaid on the "hubbed" spine.*
  * Heavy duty binding boards... .
  * Superbly printed on acid-neutral paper... .
  * Sewn pages – not just glued like ordinary books.
  * ...moiré endpages and a satin-ribbon page marker.
  * Gilded page ends.

Included is an insert of Collector's Notes.

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"Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time

. . . Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the 'new journalism.' Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. 'I thought he was a very nice gentleman,' he says of Herb Clutter. 'Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.' Told in chapters that alternate between the Clutter household and the approach of Smith and Hickock in their black Chevrolet, then between the investigation of the case and the killers' flight, Capote's account is so detailed that the reader comes to feel almost like a participant in the events.

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Truman Garcia Capote (born Truman Streckfus Persons; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and the true crime novel In Cold Blood (1966). His works have been adapted into more than 20 films and television productions.

Capote had a troubled childhood caused by his parents' divorce, a long absence from his mother, and multiple moves. He was planning to become a writer by the time he was eight years old, and he honed his writing ability throughout his childhood. He began his professional career writing short stories. The critical success of "Miriam" (1945) attracted the attention of Random House publisher Bennett Cerf and resulted in a contract to write the novel Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948). Capote earned the most fame with In Cold Blood (1966), a journalistic work about the murder of a Kansas farm family in their home. Capote spent six years writing the book, aided by his lifelong friend Harper Lee, who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird (1960).

The above text was taken from, respectively, Random House publishing (via Google Books) and Wikipedia.