To Kill a Mockingbird.

LEE, Harper.

Item Number: 783

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1960.

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. Near fine in a very good price-clipped 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. Signed by the author “with best wishes Harper Lee” on the front endpage. Also laid in is a publisher’s complimentary card. Housed in a custom clamshell box. The first edition had an estimated print run of 5,000 copies.

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).