To Kill a Mockingbird.

LEE, Harper.

Item Number: 21072

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

First book club edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Harper Lee on the half title page. Additionally inscribed by Truman Capote on the rear panel of the dust jacket photograph of Lee, which was taken by Capote.  Fine in the original dust jacket with some wear and tear. This is the first example we have seen signed by both Lee and Capote. Rare and desirable.

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).