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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
by Capote, Truman
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
NY: Random House. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1965. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full burgundy cloth, gilt lettering on spine, author's initials, gilt, on cover, top edge black, fore-edge deckle, burgundy endpapers, burgundy and black title page. . Former owner's name on first blank preliminary page, else fine; otherwise unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. viii, 343, (1) pp .
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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On Jan 30 2017, a reader said:
Wonderfully written true crime story.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28934
- Title
- In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
- Author
- Capote, Truman
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Stated First Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- True Crime, Truman Capote, Literature, Suspense, Mystery, novels, MURDER, First Edition
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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