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 original dust jacket (with $3.95 price on front flap, Capote blurb in green, Jonathan Daniels review on rear flap, and portrait of Harper Lee on back panel), 5.5 x 8.25, 296 pages. Book condition: NF/VG, with light wear to the jacket's spine. Housed in a custom-made full morocco clamshell case.
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 an exceedingly well-preserved example with its highly sought original jacket.
