To Kill A Mockingbird.

by Lee, Harper

$27,500 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed

Philadelphia New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1960. First edition 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. With an autograph postcard signed by and entirely in the hand of Harper Lee laid in. Addressed to Stewart Richardson, Executive Editor of Doubleday Company, the postcard reads in full, "Monroeville, Ala. September 5, 1970 Dear Sandy: No, I didn't receive galleys on James Purdy's - but I'd like to. They're probably sitting in New York somewhere. I'll be back by the first of October, but if you need a quote before then, please send galleys to Monroeville, zip 36460. Best, Nelle." Following the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960, Lee became increasingly reclusive, granting almost no requests for interviews or public appearances and, with the exception of a few short essays, publishing nothing further until 2015. 40 years, she lived part-time at 433 East 82nd Street in Manhattan, near her childhood friend Truman Capote, but tensions grew between them with the publication of Capote's In Cold Blood and his growing penchant for a decadent lifestyle, which contrasted with Lee's preference for a quiet, more anonymous existence. At the time of this correspondence with Doubleday, Lee had begun to spend more time in Monroeville, where she had assumed significant care responsibilities for her aging fa

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

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