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Lot #472
Truman Capote

Signed first edition of Capote's true crime classic

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Signed first edition of Capote's true crime classic

Signed book: In Cold Blood. First edition, first printing. NY: Random House, 1965. Hardcover with dust jacket (with $5.95 price intact and 1/66 date on lower front flap), 6.25 x 8.75, 343 pages. Signed on an opening tipped-in page in blue ink by Truman Capote. Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG+/VG+, with trivial edgewear at the extremities of the dust jacket's spine; a bookmark from the Kroch's & Brentano's "First Edition Circle" is laid in. A marvelous example of this pioneering 'non-fiction novel' that defined the true crime genre.

kroch's & brentano's "first edition circle"

Auction Info

  • Auction Title: Fine Autographs and Artifacts
  • Dates: #568 - Ended October 10, 2019





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