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Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1960. Four years after the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee remarked, "I never expected any sort of success with Mockingbird. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers, but at the same time I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. Public encouragement. I hoped for a little, as I said, but I got rather a whole lot, and in some ways this was just about as frightening as the quick, merciful death I'd expected." Based on Lee's experiences growing up in the Deep South, the primary themes of the novel involve racial injustice and the destruction of innocence with Atticus Finch, the narrator's father, serving as a moral hero for many readers and as a model of integrity for lawyers. The story, told by the six-year-old Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, takes place between 1933 and 35 and follows the story of a local black man, Tom Robinson, who has been… Read More

London: Heinemann, 1960. 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, directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Gregory Peck. It went on to win three Oscars: Best Actor for Gregory Peck, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White, and Best Screenplay for Horton Foote. It was nominated for five more Oscars including Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Mary Badham, the actress who played Scout. In 1995, the film was listed in the National Film Registry. In 2003, the American Film Institute named Atticus Finch the greatest movie hero of the 20th century. In 2007 the film ranked twenty-fifth on the AFI's 10th anniversary list of the greatest American… Read More

Barnstable, MA, 1960. Rare advance reading copy of the first edition of Harper Lee's classic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel signed by three actors from the 1962 film and with a two page autograph letter signed and entirely in the hand of Harper Lee declining the invitation to participate in a documentary film about her novel. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by three actors from the film on the pastedown and front free endpaper, "Bonnie Great Weekend My Best Wishes Phillip Alford 'Jem'", "To Bonnie Sincere regards Brock Peters 'Tom Robinson'", and "Bonnie, Thank you so much for all your help this week. Please stay in touch. You are now a member of our family. Sincerely Mary Badham 'Scout.'" With an autograph letter signed and entirely in the hand of Harper Lee which reads in full, "3 September '97 NYC but on the way South! Dear Ms. Lafave: I am sorry to be so long in writing you, but Claudia Johnson sent your letter to my NY address where I signed for it on my way out of town.… Read More

London: William Heinemann, 1960. First British Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First British edition, first printing. Signed by Harper Lee on the front free end paper. Bound in publisher's original maroon cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in silver. Near Fine with foxing to textblock edge, light offsetting to endsheets. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear, browning, light foxing and light fading to the spine. A lovely copy, signed by the author.

new york: lippincott, 1960. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fabulous stated first edition(1st Printing) in near fine bright tight hardcover (book looks only a few years old). This is the real first printing and not a book club or other variant.(Jeff Daniels and Truman Capote statements on jacket). There is a signed first day cover by Harper Lee with letter of authenticity. The good plus jacket is unclipped (price is faded ) with Harper Lee's picture on back. All the issue points for true first are present! This is a very rare first printing with original jacket and a custom slip box cover for the two.This is a true rarity!It doesn't get better than this! To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her… Read More

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1960. 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, directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Gregory Peck. It went on to win three Oscars: Best Actor for Gregory Peck, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White, and Best Screenplay for Horton Foote. It was nominated for five more Oscars including Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Mary Badham, the actress who played Scout. In 1995, the film was listed in the National Film Registry. In 2003, the American Film Institute named Atticus Finch the greatest movie hero of the 20th century. In 2007 the film ranked twenty-fifth on the AFI's 10th anniversary list of… Read More

SIGNED and boldly Inscribed by Harper Lee to Barbara Lee, striking provenance: To Kill a Mockingbird. Plus, Barbara's letter to Harper Lee, with Harper Lee's Autograph letter in response to Barbara SIGNED by Harper Lee! HarperCollins, [1995]. First printing Thirty-fifth anniversary edition. Autograph note signed by Lee on verso of original fan letter. Octavo. [x], 323, [3, blank] pages. Publisher's quarter black cloth over black paper covered boards, spine lettered in bronze, dust jacket. Very Fine. First Printing of the Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Edition of Lee's timeless To Kill a Mockingbird, in positively UNread, utterly Flawless condition inscribed to "Barbara Lee." Accompanying this Library Quality copy is Harper Lee's handwritten response to a letter from Barbara asking Harper for her signature in the book. Harper asks where Barbara obtained the book and if she (Barbara) paid the published price of $19.00 [sic] for it. Harper Lee's letter is dated September 28, 1997 and includes her Monroeville… Read More

NY: J. B. Lippincott, 1960. Book Club Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. This classic book is ***SIGNED & INSCRIBED*** by the author on the ffep (front free end paper): " To Jane Kansas with best wishes, Harper Lee." In addition this book contains a ***RARE & UNIQUE SIGNATURE*** of her sister Alice Lee, found on the dedication page. This is the 1960 J.P. Lippincott First Book Club Edition with a FIRST STATE Book Club Dust Jacket: The Truman Capote quote is located on the inside front, the Jonathan Daniels quote is on the rear inside cover, and Capote's photo of Lee is on the back cover. Condition: In NearFiine/VeryGood+ condition, The Hardback has the black board and yellow top stain with the merest of edge and corner wear. The Dust Jacket has very minor corner and spine end edge wear as well. **BONUS**: Receive the 2010 Harper First Edition/First Printing of "Scout, Atticus & Boo" by Mary McDonagh Murphy & **SIGNED** by the… Read More

1960. First Edition . Signed. LEE, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. New York: Harper & Row, (circa 1960). Octavo, original half taupe cloth, brown paper boards, original dust jacket. $5500.Later printing of Harper Lee’s masterpiece, inscribed by the author, “To The Russells, with best wishes, Harper Lee.”Harper Lee's portrayal of life in a small Alabama town captured the essence of the South at one of its most trying times. To Kill a Mockingbird became an immediate bestseller and won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It is ""an authentic and nostalgic story which in rare fashion at once puts together the tenderness and the tragedy of the South. They are the inseparable ingredients of a region much reported but seldom so well understood"" (Jonathan Daniels). First issued in 1960. This copy is forty-ninth printing. Book fine, bright dust jacket with only lightest wear to spine ends and a half-inch closed tear at rear flap fold. An about-fine inscribed copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This is a gorgeous unread signed copy of the first book club edition, first issue of this 1960 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction. It s quite rare in this condition. The book is inscribed on the front free endpaper by Harper Lee to book collector Dan Pope who said that "back in the early 1980s I mailed four books to her home in Monroeville, AL and she kindly signed them for me." The dust jacket is fine with rich and bright colors, no tears, folds, or fading. Just like the trade edition, there is the photograph on the back of Ms. Lee taken by Truman Capote and a review on the inside flaps by Jonathan Daniels. The boards are fresh, tight and square. The inscription on the reads: To Dan Pope, with my best wishes, Harper Lee". A fantastic copy of this important book. Signed by Author(s).

New York: Harpercollins. 2010. First Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. 0061743526 . Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Light shelfwear on panel corners and spine heel. Light foxing on top and bottom text block edges. ; Harper Lee signature on half title page. ; 5.375 X 1.09 X 8 inches; 323 pages; Signed by Author .

J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia & New York, 1960, 1960. First Edition - 15th Printing. Hardcover. Like New. Signed by Author. Flat signed by Harper Lee on title page. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book is in very nice condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight. Dust jacket has slight edge wear and a tiny chip on top corner of spine. Dust jacket now nicely protected in mylar cover.

Third Impression; A Very Good plus book in a Very Good early issue dust jacket (with Harper Lee photo to the back panel and Capote blurb to the front flap). SIGNED by the author to a laid in bookplate. An outstanding copy of this title, an absolute classic of American Literature, scarce with Ms. Lee's signature; now housed in a custom clamshell box. This copy is in very good or better condition with clean green and brown boards, sharp brown lettering over a tight spine, and clean white pages throughout; the book does show some light rubbing and sunning to the board edges, a faint vertical crease down the back board, and a few tiny age spots to the exterior text block, else near fine or better. Housed in a crisp and clean original price clipped dust jacket that shows moderate rubbing and creasing to the panel edges, corners, and flap folds, an inconspicuous crease to the back panel (corresponds to the crease to the back board), a couple of short closed tears to the spine foot, and a faint damp stain to… Read More

(New York): HarperCollins, 1999. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo, 323pp. First printing of this edition. One top corner just slightly tapped, but a fine, crisp, unread copy in like dust jacket. Red band just a 1/4 shade sunned at the spine. SIGNED by Harper Lee on the half-title page. A sharp and lovely signed copy of this attractive edition, scarce in the first printing.

New York: HarperCollins, 1995. 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, directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Gregory Peck. It went on to win three Oscars: Best Actor for Gregory Peck, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White, and Best Screenplay for Horton Foote. It was nominated for five more Oscars including Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Mary Badham, the actress who played Scout. In 1995, the film was listed in the National Film Registry. In 2003, the American Film Institute named Atticus Finch the greatest movie hero of the 20th century. In 2007 the film ranked twenty-fifth on the AFI's 10th anniversary list of the greatest… Read More

New York: HarperCollins, 1995. 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, directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Gregory Peck. It went on to win three Oscars: Best Actor for Gregory Peck, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White, and Best Screenplay for Horton Foote. It was nominated for five more Oscars including Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Mary Badham, the actress who played Scout. In 1995, the film was listed in the National Film Registry. In 2003, the American Film Institute named Atticus Finch the greatest movie hero of the 20th century. In 2007 the film ranked twenty-fifth on the AFI's 10th anniversary list of the greatest… Read More

Harper Collins, 2010. 50th Anniversary Edition. First Printing with signed bookplate. Very nice. Letter of authenticity will be included.

Harper Collins, NY, 2006. First edition first printing hardcover special deluxe gift edition in cloth slipcase and reproduced original dj. SIGNED BY LEE ON THE HALF TITLE PAGE. Fine in fine dust jacket and cloth slipcase please ask for pics first

Harper Collins, NY, 1999. First edition first printing hardcover 40th anniversary printing with 32nd printing showing on the number line. SIGNED BY LEE ON THE HALF TITLE PAGE. Fine in fine dust jacket please ask for pics first