In Cold Blood: A True Account of Multiple Murder and Its Consequences by Capote, Truman - 1965

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Random House, 1965. Minor edge and corner wear; no dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are lightly bumped and rubbed; some shelf wear; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition (fourth printing! Wonderfully well-preserved! Very very rare and hard-to-find first edition! Deckle page edges. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and gilt lettering and silver design on the spine. "On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, 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 for the crime on a gallows in a warehouse in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas....". First Edition / Fourth Printing. Burgundy Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.