CAPOTE, TRUMAN. 1924-1984. In Cold Blood. New York: Random House, [1965]. 8vo. Publisher's marron cloth, cover and spine gilt lettered, publisher's printed dust jacket. Spine tail lightly bumped. A bit of shelf wear to dust jacket. NEAR FINE FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, SIGNED BY TRUMAN CAPOTE ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER, with 'FIRST PRINTING' printed on copyright page, in FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET with '$5.95' price and publisher's code '1/66' printed on front inside flap. With letter from Kroch's & Brentano's, Inc. Booksellers to First Edition Circle members loosely inserted. With In Cold Blood, Capote invented a new genre of literature, the 'non-fiction novel,' by exploiting 'a whole battery of novelistic techniques which enforce the structure and hence the meaning of the Clutter case' (Wiegand, 'The Non-fiction Novel,' New Mexico Quarterly 37, 1967). For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing