In Cold Blood - 1st Printing
by Capote, Truman
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1965. Stated "First Printing" with "1/66" and "$5.95" inside the front flap of the dust jacket; Four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. Five years, four months and twenty-nine days later, on April 14, 1965, Richard Eugene Hickock, aged thirty-three, and Perry Edward Smith, aged thirty-six, were hanged from the crime on a gallows in a warehouse in the Kansas State Penitentiary. First printing of classic true crime book that catapulted Truman Capote to fame. Wear/chipping to dj. Text clean.. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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
- DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009343
- Title
- In Cold Blood - 1st Printing
- Author
- Capote, Truman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- Law, Crime, Truman Capote
- Bookseller catalogs
- Non-Fiction; Law;
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