To Kill a Mockingbird.
LEE, Harper.
To Kill a Mockingbird.
"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird"; First edition inscribed by Harper Lee in the year of publication.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1960.
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First edition of the author’s only novel; one which garnered her the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original green cloth backed brown boards, titles to spine in gilt. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication, “To Miss Ethel / with love, / Nelle Harper / September 17, 1960” on the front free endpaper. The dedicatee’s name is above the author’s inscription. Near fine with minor wear to the spine extremities in the original first issue dust jacket with the Jonathan Daniels blurb on the rear flap and the photograph of the author taken by Truman Capote on the rear panel, which has had some professional restoration. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. The first edition had a printing run of 5,000 copies and was published in July 1960, this copy was inscribed two months after publication. A warm inscription.
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 one 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).
