In Cold Blood [Uncorrected Proof Copy]
$7,500 · Offered by Biblio
New York: Random House, 1965. Very Good. New York: Random House, 1965 [but 1966]. First Edition. First Printing. Tall, narrow quarto (30.5cm); publisher's long galley sheets (rectos), comb-bound into light blue card wrappers, with the publisher's typed label mounted to front cover; [6],247,[1]pp. Holograph date of "Jan.17" in blue grease pencil at upper right corner of front wrapper, with rubber-stamped date of August 28, 1965 on verso. The following holograph notation appears in black pen beneath the printed title on the preliminary leaf: "Gift for Wynne Wittnebel from Christopher Lehman [sic]-Haupt at Little Dix Bay - British Virgin Islands on October 8, 1965." The same note appears in an identical hand on the upper rear wrapper. Covers edgeworn, creased, with some toning, light soil, and a few splash marks; occasional finger-soil to text edges and margins, with three pieces of clear tape connecting p.116 to 117, some long creases smoothed-out on p.208, with some creases straightened out at lower corners of a few terminal leaves; comb binding intact, but for a small chip at the crown; a Very Good, sound copy. Proof copy of Capote's masterfully written true crime novel, originally released as a four-part series in The New Yorker in 1965, and published to great acclaim by Random House in January, 1966. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction, an Edgar Award, and basis for the 1967 Richard Brooks film Starring Robert Blake and Scott Wilson. This copy belonged to editor an
- Publisher: Random House
- Year: 1965
- Binding: unknown
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