African American Civil Rights Literature Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960 Book Club Edition

Harper Lee

First Edition

Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960, is an early Book of the Month Club edition of Lee’s landmark novel of race, childhood, legal ethics, and white Southern society under Jim Crow. Published July 11, 1960, the novel won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and was adapted the following year into the Academy Award-winning film starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch.

Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1960. First Book of the Month Club edition, with “Seventh Printing” stated on price-clipped dust jacket. 1 volume. 296 pages. Quarter green cloth over brown boards, with small black dot on cover identifying the book club issue. Original dust jacket with front image matching the trade first printing and variant rear panel. 8vo, 5.5 x 8.25 inches.

The novel became one of the most widely read American works of the twentieth century, with its story of Scout Finch, Atticus Finch, and the defense of a Black man falsely accused of rape entering classrooms, legal culture, and civil-rights-era literary memory. More than 30 million copies have been sold, and the book has remained continuously in print. Book and original dust jacket very good, jacket color vibrant, one small half-inch tear at top of spine covered with tape, binding sound and hinges secure. Attractive early issue of Lee’s defining novel in its original dust jacket.

Item #16939

Price: $450.00