Holiday 2020 Catalogue

L i t e r a t u r e 22 “‘The world’s endin’, Atticus! Please do something—!’ I dragged him to the window and pointed. ‘No it’s not,’ he said, ‘It’s snowing.’” First Edition Of One Of The Rarest Of American Classics, Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird 19. LEE, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadelphia and NewYork, 1960. Octavo, original half green cloth, dust jacket. $25,000. 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 regionmuch reported but seldomsowell 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. Bookseller label. Book about-fine, bright unfaded dust jacket with light wear mainly to corners and two tiny inoffensive abrasions to rear panel. An exceptionally nice unrestored copy, unusual in this condition.