To Kill a Mockingbird.
LEE, Harper.
To Kill a Mockingbird.
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing": The Rare Advanced Reading Copy of To Kill A Mockingbird; Signed by Harper Lee
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1960.
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The advanced reading copy of the first edition of the author’s only novel; one which garnered her the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by the author. Spine slightly cocked, small ring on the front panel, else very good in wrappers. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. The first edition had an estimated initial printing run of 5,000 copies; the advance was significantly less. Signed copies are rare.
To Kill a Mockingbird became an immediate bestseller and won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The New Yorker declared it "skilled, unpretentious, and totally ingenious". It has gone on to become of the best-loved classics of all time and has been translated into more than forty languages selling more than forty million copies worldwide. Made into the Academy Award-winning film starring Gregory Peck. Named the best novel of the twentieth century by librarians across the country (Library Journal). Basis for the award winning film starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch.
