In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences [First British Edition]
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First edition
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1966. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. pp. 284. Small 8vo., measuring 5.75" x 8.75". Bound in publisher's original forest-green boards, silver lettering and monogram of the publisher to the base of spine; mustard endpapers. Light bumping to spine tail otherwise, extremities remain very well-preserved. Contents entirely without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages, and firm, sound binding; very good+ and housed in its original, iconic, unclipped, first-issue, dustjacket as created by Japanese-American graphic designer Sadamitsu "S" Neil Fujita (1921-2010); showing some very faint spotting to the panels, light wear along the edges of the panels (dustjacket now housed in archival mylar cover), listing its original price of $25s, net. Overall, very good. ¶ Widely regarded as a masterpiece of true-crime 'In Cold Blood' won instant acclaim from literary critics who praised Capote's distinctive style in melding fiction, and non-fiction. Alongside his contemporaries Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe, Capote would come to be considered an innovator of "creative non-fiction" or "New Journalism". Two years following its publication, the work would be adapted for the screen by Richard Brooks in a neo-noir film of the same name, starring Robert Blake as Perry Smith and Scott Wilson as Richard "Dick" Hickock. It would be adapted for the screen once again in the 1996 mini-series of the same name. The book would also form the centr
- Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
- Year: 1966
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: hardcover
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