IN COLD BLOOD: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences

An early printing, sized and formatted just as the first. 8vo, publisher?s original red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover, in the original printed dustjacket. (10), 343 pp. A fine copy, the book fresh and clean and nearly as new, the jacket very fresh and handsome with virtually no wear.

Edizione: an early printing, and a fine copy. capote's "non-fiction novel" was the first of the modern true crime books which have proved so lucrative and popular (witness the executioner's song and fatal vision) that they now have their own section in bookstores.<br> in cold blood details the 1959 murders of four members of the clutter family in the small farming community of holcomb, kansas. capote learned of the quadruple murder before the killers were captured, and he traveled to kansas to write about the crime. he was accompanied by his childhood friend and fellow author harper lee, and they interviewed residents and investigators assigned to the case and took thousands of pages of notes.<br> in cold blood was an instant success and is still the second-best-selling true crime book in history, bested only by vincent bugliosi's work on the charles manson murders; helter skelter.