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"The
book is not an indictment so much as a plea for something, a reminder to
people at home." -Harper Lee |
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"In the book I tried to give a sense of proportion to life in the South, that there isn't a lynching before every breakfast. I think that Southerners react with the same kind of horror as other people do about the injustice in their land. In Mississippi, people were so revolted by what happened, they were so stunned, I don't think it will happen again." -Harper Lee |
| Lee, Harper. To Kill a
Mockingbird. Philadelphia and New York: Lippincott Co., (1960). Octavo,
original half green cloth, original dust jacket. Sold
First edition, inscribed by Harper Lee: "To- with my best wishes/ Nelle Harper Lee". Book fine, dust jacket in exceptional condition for Mockingbird, extraordinarily bright with minimal chipping and creasing. Provenance: in the library of the original owner (to whom Harper Lee inscribed the book) for the last forty years. Perhaps the finest signed first edition of To Kill a Mockingbird one can expect to obtain. |