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1966148 x 215 mm

ORIGINAL FRENCH EDITION.
ONE OF 50 COPIES ON VELLUM.

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ORIGINAL FRENCH EDITION of this rhe true story of a multiple murder and its consequences, Truman Capote's masterpiece.
Translated from the English by Raymond Girard.
ONE OF 50 COPIES ON VELLUM pur fil Lafuma-Navarre, the only large paper.

Published in serial form in The New Yorkerin 1965, then in volume form by Random House New York, In Cold Blood immediately became a classic of American literature. Selling more than eight million copies, it brought Truman Capote immense fame but also plunged him into depression, deeply affected by his meeting with Perry Smith, one of the two murderers.
According to the Mystery Writers of America In 1995, the novel was ranked 54th in the list of the one hundred best crime books of all time; The Guardian ranks In Cold Blood among the top 100 books written in English.

 

Paris,Gallimard,1966.In-8,148 x 215 mm,421 pp. - [1] f. .

Good condition.

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Truman Capote

Truman Streckfus Persons

(New Orleans: September 30, 1924 - Los Angeles: August 25, 1984)

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