The Sixties Catalogue

T h e S I X T I E S 4 “The Result Changed Journalism Forever” ( Salon ) 2. CAPOTE, Truman. In Cold Blood. A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences. New York, 1965. Octavo, original maroon cloth, dust jacket. $750. Click for more info First trade edition of Capote’s landmark nonfiction true-crime novel. “Hailed as a masterpiece,” In Cold Blood established Capote as the “herald of a new genre, ‘the non-fiction novel’” (Hart, 122; Allen, 247). Preceded only by a signed limited edition of 500 copies published the same year. Owner signature. Owner blindstamp. Book fine, mild toning and slightest edge-wear to handsome dust jacket. “Imagination, of course, can open any door— turn the key and let terror walk right in.”