1966 In Cold Blood, Truman Capote, First UK edition, old books, rare books, true crime, crime gifts, mystery books, thriller books

1966 In Cold Blood, Truman Capote, First UK edition, old books, rare books, true crime, crime gifts, mystery books, thriller books

1996 First UK edition of Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood,” published by Hamish Hamilton. Book itself is NF and pristine, with only the original, small, bookseller’s sticker to frontis endpage. HC, with GC DJ. Jacket has shelf wear and minor tearing (as seen in pics), but intact and unclipped. Overall VGC.

In Cold Blood is a non-fiction novel by American author Truman Capote, first published in 1966. It details the 1959 murders of four members of the Clutter family in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas.

Capote learned of the quadruple murder before the killers were captured, and he traveled to Kansas to write about the crime. He was accompanied by his childhood friend and fellow author Harper Lee, and they interviewed residents and investigators assigned to the case and took thousands of pages of notes. Killers Richard Hickock and Perry Smith were arrested six weeks after the murders and later executed by the state of Kansas. Capote ultimately spent six years working on the book.