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Random House, New York, 1965. Hardcover. BCE. Condition: Fine, clean, bright and tight. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book in fine condition; former owner's name and date (1969) in ink top of front free end paper; otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket in very good- condition; light rubbing and wear at edges; chipping head and tail.Grey topstain; 0464 printed on dust jacket spine below title; Book-Of-The-Month Club*Selection on front flap; Book-Of-The-Month on back flap. 343 pages.Sharp cornered, clean, burgundy cloth boards with gold stamped lettering on front board and spine, BCE blindstamp. Identical to the first trade edition but for the emboss and the jacket. 8 5/8 x 5 7/8 in. 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. An account of the 1959 murders of Herb Clutter, a wealthy farmer from Holcomb, KS, and his family. Capote learned of the quadruple slaying from The New York Times and he decided to go to Kansas and write about the murders--even before the killers were captured. Harper Lee (TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD) tagged along with him on the trip and is mentioned in dedication. Together they interviewed the locals and the investigators, taking said thousands of pages of notes. Capote spent years working on the novel. Seller Inventory # 000206
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