In Cold Blood
By Truman Capote
 
First UK edition, first impression: London: Hamish Hamilton, 1966.
 
Octavo. Original green cloth with mustard endpapers and paste-downs, spine lettered in silver with publisher’s device at foot. With the original dust jacket designed by S. Neil Fujita and priced 25s. net to the front flap.
 
The binding clean and square, the cloth nice and fresh. Top edge somewhat toned with some spotting to edges, primarily to the top and fore-edge, not encroaching in any way on the contents, which are clean throughout and free from names and inscriptions. Very good. 
 
The dust jacket shows moderate wear, with rubbing and minor chipping at the head and foot of the spine and along the folds, and some general toning. Shallow chipping at the corners and a closed tear to the top edge of the upper panel; otherwise very good.
 
The first British edition of Capote’s groundbreaking “non-fiction novel”, first published in the United States earlier in the same year. In Cold Blood recounts the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, and is widely regarded as a landmark in modern narrative journalism, blending the techniques of the novel with painstaking reportage. The book’s influence soon extended beyond the printed page, notably with Richard Brooks’s acclaimed 1967 film adaptation In Cold Blood. A defining work of twentieth-century American reportage and true crime writing.