LEE, Harper.
To Kill A Mockingbird.
Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott Company , 1960.
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“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for": To Kill A Mockingbird; signed by Harper Lee
First edition, fourth impression (published the same year as the first) of one of the most important American novels of the 20th century. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Harper Lee." With an inscription in another hand. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Shirley Smith. Rare and desirable signed.
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, directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Gregory Peck. It went on to win three Oscars: Best Actor for Gregory Peck, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White, and Best Screenplay for Horton Foote. It was nominated for five more Oscars including Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Mary Badham, the actress who played Scout. In 1995, the film was listed in the National Film Registry. In 2003, the American Film Institute named Atticus Finch the greatest movie hero of the 20th century. In 2007 the film ranked twenty-fifth on the AFI's 10th anniversary list of the greatest American movies of all time. It was named the best novel of the twentieth century by librarians across the country (Library Journal).
To Kill A Mockingbird.
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