To Kill A Mockingbird.

by Lee, Harper

$55,000 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed

Philadelphia New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1960. First edition with the review slip of one of the most important American novels of the 20th century which had an initial first printing of 5,000 copies and went on to earn Harper Lee the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Irma Lou and Alfred With my best wishes Nelle Harper Lee September 2, 1960." Review copy, with the slip laid in, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Shirley Smith. Author photograph by Truman Capote. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Most rare and desirable signed and inscribed less than two months after the date of publication. Four years after the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee remarked, I never expected any sort of success with Mockingbird. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers, but at the same time I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. Public encouragement. I hoped for a little, as I said, but I got rather a whole lot, and in some ways this was just about as frightening as the quick, merciful death I d expected. Based on Lee s experiences growing up in the Deep South, the primary themes of the novel involve racial injustice and the destruction of innocence with Atticus Finch, the narrator s father, serving as a moral hero for many reade

• Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Company
• Year: 1960
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: hardcover

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