In Cold Blood [Uncorrected Proof Copy]
![In Cold Blood [Uncorrected Proof Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/659/089/1638089659.0.x.jpg)
- New York: Random House, 1965
New York: Random House, 1965. Very Good. New York: Random House, 1965 [but 1966]. First Edition. First Printing. Tall, narrow quarto (30.5cm); publisher's long galley sheets (rectos), comb-bound into light blue card wrappers, with the publisher's typed label mounted to front cover; [6],247,[1]pp. Holograph date of "Jan.17" in blue grease pencil at upper right corner of front wrapper, with rubber-stamped date of August 28, 1965 on verso. The following holograph notation appears in black pen beneath the printed title on the preliminary leaf: "Gift for Wynne Wittnebel from Christopher Lehman [sic]-Haupt at Little Dix Bay – British Virgin Islands on October 8, 1965." The same note appears in an identical hand on the upper rear wrapper. Covers edgeworn, creased, with some toning, light soil, and a few splash marks; occasional finger-soil to text edges and margins, with three pieces of clear tape connecting p.116 to 117, some long creases smoothed-out on p.208, with some creases straightened out at lower corners of a few terminal leaves; comb binding intact, but for a small chip at the crown; a Very Good, sound copy.
Proof copy of Capote's masterfully written true crime novel, originally released as a four-part series in The New Yorker in 1965, and published to great acclaim by Random House in January, 1966. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction, an Edgar Award, and basis for the 1967 Richard Brooks film Starring Robert Blake and Scott Wilson. This copy belonged to editor and book reviewer Christopher Lehmann-Haupt (1934-2018), who in 1965 left The Dial Press and became an editor and critic at The New York Times Book Review, where from 1965-2000 he wrote over 4,000 reviews and articles. While Lehmann-Haupt never did review In Cold Blood, years later he would write a lengthy review of Music For Chameleons. He gifted the recipient this copy while the two of them were on a Caribbean cruise. The finding aid for Capote's papers at NYPL notes several drafts of the book, thermofaxed and carbon typescripts, and galleys for The New Yorker serials, though these comb-bound galleys are the earliest available version of the novel as it would be published. Produced in very small numbers (typically fewer than a dozen), and much less common than the advance copies issued by the publisher.
[cf. Starosciak 11a].
Proof copy of Capote's masterfully written true crime novel, originally released as a four-part series in The New Yorker in 1965, and published to great acclaim by Random House in January, 1966. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction, an Edgar Award, and basis for the 1967 Richard Brooks film Starring Robert Blake and Scott Wilson. This copy belonged to editor and book reviewer Christopher Lehmann-Haupt (1934-2018), who in 1965 left The Dial Press and became an editor and critic at The New York Times Book Review, where from 1965-2000 he wrote over 4,000 reviews and articles. While Lehmann-Haupt never did review In Cold Blood, years later he would write a lengthy review of Music For Chameleons. He gifted the recipient this copy while the two of them were on a Caribbean cruise. The finding aid for Capote's papers at NYPL notes several drafts of the book, thermofaxed and carbon typescripts, and galleys for The New Yorker serials, though these comb-bound galleys are the earliest available version of the novel as it would be published. Produced in very small numbers (typically fewer than a dozen), and much less common than the advance copies issued by the publisher.
[cf. Starosciak 11a].