To Kill a Mockingbird.

LEE, Harper.

Item Number: 19010

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1960.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original green cloth backed brown boards, titles to spine in gilt. Contemporary inscription on the front free endpaper, near fine in a very good dust jacket with a chip to spine crown and some wear to the foot of the spine. The first edition had a printing run of 5,000. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.

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).