Lee, Harper (1960) ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, US first edition

Harper Lee (1960) ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, US first edition, first printing, published by Lippincott. Pulizer Prize winning and landmark novel. A milestone of American literature by Harper Lee who never published another novel (‘Go Set a Watchman’ is an earlier version of ‘Mockingbird’ rather than a standalone novel).

Condition: near fine in very good unclipped dust jacket as pictured. The book has a whiff of foxing to the endpapers and slight shelf wear. NO previous owners’ inscriptions of any sorts, no library stamps. The dust jacket is not clipped, is correctly priced at $3.95 and has the Jonathan Daniels review. Some very minor edge wear, fortification tape to the folds’ edges and creases to lower jacket’s spine. Only 5,000 copies were printed. A good chunk of these went to public libraries and acquired the usual stamps. Few copies survived the passage of time without inscriptions, unclipped wrappers, or the dust jackets have been heavily damaged or lost.

Adapted as a motion picture in 1962 starring Gregory Peck who was immortalised with his role as Atticus and won the Academy Award (Peck and Lee became life-long friends). The film won two more Oscars in the Screenplay and Art Direction categories.