"THE HERALD OF A NEW GENRE": SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF IN COLD BLOOD, ONE OF ONLY 500 COPIES SIGNED BY CAPOTE

CAPOTE, Truman. In Cold Blood. A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences. New York: Random House, (1965). Octavo, original black cloth, original acetate dust jacket, original slipcase. $3500.

Signed limited first edition, number 58 of only 500 copies signed by Capote.

Shortly after reading a short New York Times article about a shooting in the Midwest, a "reporter named Truman Capote traveled to Kansas to investigate the shotgun murder of a farm family. The result changed journalism forever" (Salon). "Hailed as a masterpiece," In Cold Blood established Capote as the "herald of a new genre, 'the non-fiction novel,' which recognizes the convergence of fiction and fact in times of outrage, the insane surrealism of daily life" (Hart, 122; Allen, 247). Issued in the same year in a trade edition.

Faint marginal stain to pages 283-86, not touching text. A nearly fine book in a mildly sunned slipcase.