Signed book: To Kill a Mockingbird. First edition. Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1960. Hardcover (brown boards and light green cloth spine with brown titles) with dust jacket (price-clipped, Jonathan Daniels quote on back flap, Truman Capote photo credit on reverse), 5.5 x 8.25, 296 pages. Signed and inscribed in blue felt tip on a page neatly tipped in after the title page, “To Timothy, with best wishes, Harper Lee.” Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG/G+, with moderate wear to clipped dust jacket including creasing and a few small areas of paper loss (most notably to spine).
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, especially with their original dust jackets intact. Lee was also a reluctant signer, making any sort of signed example quite uncommon. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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