Harper Lee "To Kill A Mockingbird" 35th Anniversary Edition, Signed First Edition/ Later Printing [Fine/Near Fine+]

"Someone rare has written this very fine first novel: a writer with the liveliest sense of life, and the warmest, most authentic sense of humor. A touching book; and so funny, so likeable." - Truman Capote

Personally signed by Harper Lee. "To Kill A Mockingbird" is the Pulitzer Prize Winning Title

35TH ANNIVERSARY SIGNED HARDCOVER EDITION

Harper Collins 1995.  Harper Lee "To Kill A Mockingbird" Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Edition. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Bookseller issued COA. Fine/Fine without any flaws. Hardcover book with original dust-jacket. First Edition, Later Printing with the number line on the copyright page "HC 22 21 20". Not price-clipped.

Octavo, 323pp. Black boards, black cloth spine, title stamped in gilt on spine. Stated “35th Anniversary edition” on copyright page.

A great example of one of the 20th century’s most sought after titles in American Literature, signed by the author. Harper Lee won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961.

About To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It has won the Pulitzer Prize, been translated into more than forty languages, has sold more than forty million copies worldwide, and has been made into an enormously popular movie. It was also named the best novel of the twentieth century by librarians across the country (Library Journal). "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. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s.

The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice, but the weight of history will only tolerate so much. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old.

The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality. The narrator's father, Atticus Finch, has served as a moral hero for many readers and as a model of integrity for lawyers. One critic explains the novel's impact by writing, "In the twentieth century, To Kill a Mockingbird is probably the most widely read book dealing with race in America, and its protagonist, Atticus Finch, the most enduring fictional image of racial heroism.

About Harper Lee

Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016) was an American novelist best known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. It won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Lee published only two books, yet she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007 for her contribution to literature. She also received numerous honorary degrees, though she declined to speak on those occasions. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966). Capote was the basis for the character Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird.

The plot and characters of To Kill a Mockingbird are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936 when she was 10. The novel deals with the irrationality of adult attitudes towards race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s, as depicted through the eyes of two children. It was inspired by racist attitudes in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. She also wrote the novel Go Set a Watchman in the mid-1950s and published it in July 2015 as a sequel to Mockingbird, but it was later confirmed to be merely her first draft of Mockingbird.