Cold Blood True Account by Capote Truman, Signed (11 results)

First edition - stated first printing. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Flat-signed by the author. Subjects: Hickock, Richard Eugene, 1931-1965. Smith, Perry Edward, 1928-1965. Murder --Kansas. Price-clipped. References; Kenneth Starosciak; Truman Capote, a Checklist [1.a]. 1 Kg.

First edition - stated first printing. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Flat-signed by the author. Subjects: Hickock, Richard Eugene, 1931-1965. Smith, Perry Edward, 1928-1965. Murder --Kansas. Price-clipped. References; Kenneth Starosciak; Truman Capote, a Checklist [1.a]. 1 Kg.

First edition. 8vo. 343 pp. Signed ffep: For Bob â" T. C. '66. Cloth in dustwrapper, unclipped, very good copy. (84667).

First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the first blank. Some copies were issued signed for members of the First Edition Circle Society, whose bookmark is loosely inserted. "Capote's revolutionary and compelling approach to narrative non-fiction has been much copied, but rarely bettered" (Colquhoun). The "true crime" novel was inspired by the Clutter family murders in Holcomb, Kansas, of 15 November 1959. Capote reported on the story for the New Yorker alongside Harper Lee and saw the potential for a novel, later remarking, "murder was a theme not likely to darken and yellow with time" (quoted by Keefe). The first issue dust jacket has "1/66" printed on the front flap and "Publishers of The American College Dictionary and The Modern Library" on the rear flap, as here. Stanton, p. 6. Kate Colquhoun, "Book of a Lifetime: In Cold Blood", Independent, 13 May 2011; Patrick Radden Keefe, "Capote's Co-Conspirators", New Yorker, 22 March 2013. Octavo. Original dark red cloth, spine lettered in gilt with silver decorations, author's initials to front cover in gilt, top edge dark blue, dark red endpapers. With dust jacket. Frontispiece and title page printed in red and black. Bump to spine head; jacket unclipped, faint partial ring-mark on front panel, folds and edges a little rubbed, with a few nicks and two small punctures: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.

First edition, signed limited issue, number 285 of 500 copies signed by the author, this copy finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. "Capote's revolutionary and compelling approach to narrative non-fiction has been much copied, but rarely bettered" (Colquhoun). The "true crime" novel was inspired by the Clutter family murders in Holcomb, Kansas, on 15 November 1959. Capote reported on the story for the New Yorker alongside Harper Lee and saw the potential for a novel, later remarking, "murder was a theme not likely to darken and yellow with time" (quoted by Keefe). This copy was bound for William Lewis Safire (1929-2009), the Pulitzer Prizewinning columnist and White House speechwriter who wrote the presidential address to be delivered in the event that the Apollo 11 astronauts did not survive their mission. In 2006, Safire was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The front cover is stamped with the initials of his later father Oliver Craus Safir (1893-1934), in keeping with the rest of the library William Safire inherited. The limited issue had appeared in the publisher's special black cloth and the trade issue was bound in red cloth with dust jacket. Stanton, p. 6. Kate Colquhoun, "Book of a Lifetime: In Cold Blood", Independent, 13 May 2011; Patrick Radden Keefe, "Capote's Co-Conspirators", New Yorker, 22 March 2013. Octavo (207 x 134 mm). Late 20th-century orange morocco, spine lettered and framed in gilt with central device in compartments, front cover initialled in gilt "O.C.S.", covers, board edges, and turn-ins ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Frontispiece and title page printed in orange and black. A fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition, limited issue. Fine in fine unprinted mylar dust jacket and fine cardboard slipcase as issued. Copy number 60 of 500 numbered copies Signed by the author. Pulitzer Prize-winner for non-fiction. Capote's neighbor and close friend Harper Lee acted as his secretary during his investigations into the tragic murders. Basis for the excellent film adapted for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks, with Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Quincy Jones's music, and Conrad Hall's famous cinematography. A nice, fresh copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Trade Edition, First Printing. A Fine copy in deep maroon-burgundy cloth, in a Fine black, tan and maroon dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 343pp. SIGNED by the Author under his name on the title page (no inscription). Capote's carefully and exhaustively researched account, about a multiple murder in Holcomb, Kansas by two drifters, written as what he then called a "non-fiction novel" appeared originally in four installments in The New Yorker, was a sensation, and was largely responsible for Capote's celebrity status throughout the remaning years of his very public life. It is clearly Capote's masterpiece. Q17500.

Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Copy #486 of a limited 500 signed by Truman Capote. Bound in publisher's original black cloth binding stamped in gilt and red; lacking the original acetate jacket. Fine in a Near Fine original slipcase with light uneven sunning, light wear and minor soiling. A fantastic copy of one of Capote's best-known works, detailing the unexplained murder of the Clutter family in small-town Kansas.

[True crime] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[12] 343 [1]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to a tipped-in blank. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and silver decoration, red endpapers, top edge green, in the first issue dust-jacket, designed by S. Neil Fujita, with correct date code (1/66) and $5.95 price on front flap. Very light wear to extremities. A lovely fine copy. Capote's ground breaking non-fiction work on the murder of a Nebraska family. Signed on publisher's insert, this is almost certain to be one of the autographed copies received by subscribers to Kroch and Brentano's "First Edition Circle".

343 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Preserved in a custom quarter morocco folding clamshell box. First edition, first printing. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with one short closed tear to the bottom of the rear panel. Signed by Truman Capote on the blank leaf following the front free endpaper.

First edition. Octavo. pp [xii], 343.Signed by the author on a leaf tipped in after the front free endpaper for members of Kroch and Brentano's "First Edition Circle". In addition, however, the author has also signed the title-page.Small faint abrasion at top edge of front free endpaper Near fine in near-fine dustwrapper (with correct first issue points) with a hint of rubbing to the edges.