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ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT OF HARPER LEE - INSCRIBED

by Lee, Harper

$5,000 · Offered by Biblio

Signed

[New York]: World Wide Photos, 1962. A large, early photographic portrait of a young Harper Lee, issued the year after she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her 1960 novel To Kill A Mockingbird. The recipient was Dr. Charles Cornelius Greenway, an autograph collector and pastor at All Souls Congregational Church in Brooklyn, NY, whose collection of ca. 4,000 signed photographs was sold in two notable auctions (1970-1971) at Parke-Bernet Galleries. Original double-weight photograph, measuring 20.5cm x 25.5cm (8" x 10"). Inscribed by the subject in black ink toward the lower left corner: "To Dr. Greenway / with the best wishes of Harper Lee." Agency and copyright rubber-stamps on verso, embossed lozenge to lower left corner, with a few tiny spots to lower border edges, and a faint crease to upper left corner; Near Fine.

  • Publisher: World Wide Photos
  • Year: 1962
  • Binding: unknown

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