CAPOTE (Truman). Lot n° 13

In Cold Blood. A true account of a multiple murder and its consequences. Paris, Gallimard, 1966. In-8, dark red morocco, irregular bands of the same morocco mosaic on the boards, four black rivets in relief, smooth spine titled in black œser, edge-to-edge lining in the same morocco, bright red suede endpapers, untrimmed, cover and spine, black ribbed box slipcase (F. Rousseau, 2017). First edition of the first French translation, published by Raymond Girard the same year as the American original. One of 51 copies on vellum pur fil, the only large paper. First published as a serial in the New Yorker in 1965, In Cold Blood became a classic of twentieth-century American literature as soon as it appeared in bookstores. With more than eight million copies sold, it brought its author immense fame. Striking lined binding by Florent Rousseau in the dark and bloody hues of "true crime".