In Cold Blood (Signed first edition)

Capote, Truman

Published by Random House, New York, 1965

About this Item

A Fine copy in like jacket. Minor discoloration to the rear paste-down. Signed by the author on the half title. At its initial release, In Cold Blood catapulted the already infamous Capote into an even higher authorial strata, and it earned him praise as the inventor of a new genre: the non-fiction novel. Drawing on over 8,000 pages of notes and interviews, Capote constructed a chilling true-life tale of a quadruple homicide in a small Midwestern town, examining the town members affected by the deaths as well as psychological examinations of the killers themselves. The New York Times immediately praised the book: "a masterpiece…agonizing, terrible, possessed, proof that the times, so surfeited with disasters, are still capable of tragedy.". Fine in Fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 6940

Bibliographic Details

• Title: In Cold Blood (Signed first edition)
• Publisher: Random House, New York
• Publication Date: 1965
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Books into Film
  • Philosophy and Social Thought
  • Modern Firsts
  • Signed Books