To Kill a Mockingbird.

LEE, Harper.

Item Number: 54050

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1960.

First book club edition of the Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Harper Lee on the front free endpaper. A near fine example with a few small spots to the page edges in the original dust jacket with some light rubbing. Jacket design by Shirley Smith. Photograph of Harper Lee on the rear panel taken by Truman Capote. 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 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).