Sought-after unsigned first edition book: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. First edition, first printing. Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1960. Hardcover (brown boards and light green cloth spine with brown titles) with later-issue (seventh printing) dust jacket, 5.5 x 8.25, 296 pages. Book condition: VG+/VG, with minor soiling and sunning to spine, and some edgewear and creasing to the dust jacket.
A true 'Great American Novel,' To Kill a Mockingbird became an instant classic upon its debut in 1960 and went through fourteen printings in the first year. However, as Harper Lee was an unknown author, only five thousand copies were printed for its July 11th release: first editions are thus extremely scarce. This is a very well-preserved example, aesthetically enhanced by the inclusion of a dust jacket from the same year.
