$125
Estimate: $200 - $300
Auction: February 18, 2021 10:00:00 AM EDT
New York: Random House, (1966). First edition. 8vo. 343 pp. Original burgundy cloth, stamped in silver and in gilt; burgundy endpapers; top edge stained black, faded and with a few tiny spots, other edges untrimmed. In the iconic dust-jacket, designed by S. Neil Fujita, with very light wear to head and tail of spine, and with a very small chip out of the top of the fold of the front flap.
The burgundy hatpin on the jacket’s upper right corner—meant to represent a drop of blood—was a brighter shade of red in Fujita’s original design, but Capote reportedly objected that the blood should not be red because the crime was old. The color was adjusted, and a more funereal black border added.