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Item Details
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| Author: |
Capote, Truman |
| Title: |
In Cold Blood |
| Place: |
New York |
| Publisher: |
Random House |
| Date: |
[1965] |
| Item # : |
182368 |
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| Sale Number |
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364 |
| Lot Number |
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17 |
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| Fine Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries, with the David Oakey Collection of Gary Snyder |
| Sale Date |
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09/27/2007 |
| Price realized |
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$ 1092 |
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| Description: |
| Frontispiece from photograph. Maroon-brown cloth, lettered in gilt, jacket. Book Club (states first edition on copyright page but with small square blind-stamp on lower rear cover); however, in the first edition, first issue dust jacket. |
| Warmly inscribed and signed by the author on the first blank page: "To my dearest Marion; hope you enjoy this my dear - it was written with you in mind. T Capote." Unsure who exactly this "Marion" is or was, but noted photographer Marion Ettinger knew Capote and took one of his famous portraits. One of the most important books of the twentieth century. First issue jacket with the "1/66" code on the front flap and "Publishers of the American College Dictionary and the Modern Library" located on the rear flap. |
| Condition: |
| Light edge wear and soiling to jacket, price clipped; else fine in a near fine jacket. |
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