To Kill a Mockingbird SIGNED by HARPER LEE ~ Presentation Copy ~ First Edition ~

Description: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee First edition stated, first printing, signed and warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1960. First edition, first printing of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. A fantastic presentation copy signed by Harper Lee and warmly inscribed to close family friends in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Evlyn and Bill with my love and best wishes, Nelle Harper Lee December 1960." Evlyn Samford (née Barrett) and Lee grew up together in Monroeville, Alabama. Evlyn was close friends with Harper's sister, Alice Lee; Alice being Harper's confidante, housemate and gatekeeper, as well as one the two dedicatees of To Kill a Mockingbird. Bound in publisher's original brown paper-covered boards over green cloth spine. Very Good+ with spine lean, light wear and spots of soiling to binding. Foxing to cloth, textblock edge and endsheets. Hinge at title page slightly over-opened. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with quote from Jonathan Daniels on rear flap; with faint waviness to front panel and a thin strip of fading near the spine, tanning to flaps and several small, light tidemarks visible from the blindside. A remarkable presentation copy with hometown provenance of one of the most beloved novels to come out of the 20th century.

Price: 125000 USD

Location: Portland, Oregon

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