FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE RAREST OF AMERICAN CLASSICS, HARPER LEE'S TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

LEE, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott, (1960). Octavo, original half green cloth, brown paper boards, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell box. $35,000.

First edition, first printing, of Harper Lee’s masterpiece, in rare first-issue dust jacket.

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 printing, without listing of subsequent impressions, in first-issue dust jacket with photo of Lee by Truman Capote on back panel.

Book fine; dust jacket with minor wear to spine corners, a bit of rubbing along folds. A near-fine copy.