To Kill a Mockingbird.

LEE, Harper.

Item Number: 3684

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

First book club edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author, “To Jamie with every good wish, Harper Lee.” A near fine example with the owner name above the inscription in a very good dust jacket with some wear and tear. The dust jacket has the original photograph on the rear panel taken by Truman Capote.

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).