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Harper Lee

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Harper Lee

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Auction Date:2016 Dec 07 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:236 Commercial St., Suite 100, Boston, Massachusetts, 02109, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Signed book: To Kill a Mockingbird. First edition. Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1960. Hardcover (brown boards and light green cloth spine with brown titles) with original unclipped dust jacket ($3.95 price on front flap, Jonathan Daniels quote on back flap, Truman Capote photo credit on reverse), 5.5 x 8.25, 296 pages. Signed later on the title page in black felt tip, “Harper Lee.” Autographic condition: fine, with three tiny tears to the top edge of the title page. Book condition: VG+/G+, with moderate wear to dust jacket including creasing and a few small areas of paper loss (most notably to spine). Accompanied by a custom-made clamshell case.

A true ‘Great American Novel,’ To Kill a Mockingbird became an instant classic upon its debut in 1960 and went through fourteen printings in the first year. However, as Harper Lee was an unknown author, only five thousand copies were printed for its July 11th release; first editions are thus extremely scarce, especially with their original dust jackets intact. Lee was also a reluctant signer, making any signed version quite uncommon. All this considered, signed first editions of To Kill a Mockingbird are extremely rare and among the most prized items in all of American book collecting.