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CAPOTE, TRUMAN. In Cold Blood New York: Random House, [1965]. Octavo, original first-state dust jacket as wrappers bound over burgundy paper, as issued. A bit of rubbing at extremities; A nice copies of the fragile advance reading copy that is much scarcer than the first edition and has a similar image on the cover. Scarce. . "And so it happened that in the daylight hours of that Wednesday morning, Alvin Dewey, breakfasting in the coffee shop of a Topeka hotel, read, on the first page of the Kansas City Star, a headline he had long awaited: Die on Rope for Bloody Crime. The story, written by an Associated Press reporter, began: 'Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, partners in crime, died on the gallows at the state prison early today for one of the bloodiest murders in Kansas criminal annals. Hickock, 33 years old, died first, at 12:41 A.M.; Smith, 36, died at 1:19...'".