In Cold Blood. A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences.

£550 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Capote’s seminal ‘non-fiction novel’ about the murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, originally published as a four-part serial in The New Yorker . Described by the American crime journalist Jack Olsen as the book that made true crime an ‘interesting, successful commercial genre, but also began the process of tearing it down.’ Just about a very good copy overall, contents generally clean, jacket price clipped with later dollar pencilled price clumsily erased to front panel, rather worn at extremities with a few tiny nicks and short closed tears, chipping to ends of spine panel. The correct first issue dust jacket with the ‘1/66’ code to the front flap

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