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 Signed by Harper Lee, Finely Bound in Full Green Morocco
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. Signed by Harper Lee on the half title page. Octavo, finely bound in full green morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. The first edition had a printing run of 5,000 copies. A very nice presentation.
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).
