to kill a mockingbird 1960 first edition

To Kill a Mockingbird became an immediate bestseller and won the. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Publishers light green cloth back over rust paper boards, lettered. The first edition had a printing run of 5,000. McNair, Washington DC, with all expected marks, including stamps to pastedowns and endpapers, pocket to rear endpaper, number to title page, stamp to top and bottom edges of text block, sticker to tail of jacket front and rear pastedowns with damage from glue, where library mylar was attached by adhesive then removed A frequently borrowed copy, with 57 stamped due dates in rear with severe wear, including webbing showing at both front and rear endpapers, some finger smudges to interior įirst Edition, First Printing Dust jacket with original 3. First edition, in the first issue dust jacket.

of Philadelphia in 1960 and became an almost immediate bestseller, winning the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Octavo, 296 pages Poor/G+ spine black with white titling quarter green cloth, brown paper boards dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut '$3.95', small stain to lower front hinge, only visible from interior, some creases and wear to jacket, but a completely intact copy of a scarce jacket with no restoration Įx-library, Fort Lesley J. 1960 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Novel By HARPER LEE First Edition First Printing 291.44 23. To Kill a Mockingbird was published by J.B. More books by Heinemann here.Philadelphia and New York: J. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. A very good book with one small name to the front endpaper, with some light spotting to the. To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story, an anti-racist novel, a historical drama of the Great Depression and a sublime example of the Southern writing tradition. To Kill A Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee, published by J.B. A first edition, first printing published by Heinemann in 1960.

But the weight of history will only tolerate so much. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the thirties. 'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Dust jacket in removable protective sleeve. There is a previous-owner inscription to front end page.

First impression hardback in very good condition.

To kill a mockingbird 1960 first edition