Thursday, July 14, 2022

Vintage Paperbacks with Interesting Covers


In Cold Blood

by Truman Capote

Signet Books/New American Library

movie tie-in edition, 14th printing, 1968

mass market paperback

The spectacular bestseller about the brutal slaying of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas - the police investigation, the capture, the trial, and the execution of the two young murderers, Richard Hickock and Perry Smith. "Capote has thrust the act of violence before the reader as if it were happening before his very eyes." - Time IN COLD BLOOD: now a major motion picture written for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks. A Colombia picture in Panavision.

(copied from back cover)


 

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