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Handsomely bound in a finely woven green cloth spine stamped crisply in brown lettering; and brown paper-covered boards. Very clean and tight throughout. A collector's copy. No names or marks. With light creases to the top corners of pages 9 and 11. In a complete, handsome, first issue dust jacket with the original price of "$3.95" printed at the bottom of the front flap. With the first issue quotes by Truman Capote in green ink at the top of the front flap; and the Jonathan Daniels slug at the middle of the rear inside flap. The patina of time reveals a 1960s vintage dust jacket with light wear and rubbing to the top and bottom of the spine ends and at the corners, a few wrinkles along the edges, and one tiny scuff mark at the center edge of the jacket spine.The front inside flap has a few light vertical creases along the outer edge, not affecting any of the text. A very good plus dust jacket with a black and white photo on the rear panel of a reflective Harper Lee taken by Truman Capote. A very attractive and collectible copy of this American classic in its original dust jacket. Laid in is a signed half-title sheet from one of Lee's Anniversary Editions of Mockingbird, signed "Harper Lee" in blue ink. 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 Lee's observations of her family, her neighbors and an event that occurred near her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, in 1936, when she was 10years 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." As a Southern Gothic novel and a Bildungsroman, the primary themes of To Kill a Mockingbird involve racial injustice and the destruction of innocence. Scholars have noted that Lee also addresses issues of class, courage, compassion, and gender roles in the American Deep South. The book is widely taught in schools in the United States with lessons that emphasize tolerance and decry prejudice. Despite its themes, To Kill a Mockingbird has been subject to campaigns for removal from public classrooms, often challenged for its use of racial epithets. Reaction to the novel varied widely upon publication. Despite the number of copies sold and its widespread use in education, literary analysis of it is sparse. Author Mary McDonough Murphy, who collected individual impressions of To Kill a Mockingbird by several authors and public figures, calls the book "an astonishing phenomenon". In 2006, British librarians ranked the book ahead of the Bible as one "every adult should read before they die". It was adapted into an Oscar-winning film in 1962 by director Robert Mulligan, with a screenplay by Horton Foote. Since 1990, a play based on the novel has been performed annually in Harper Lee's hometown. To Kill a Mockingbird was Lee's only published book until Go Set a Watchman, an earlier draft of To Kill a Mockingbird, was published on July 14, 2015. Lee continued to respond to her work's impact until her death in February 2016, although she had refused any personal publicity for herself or the novel since 1964. (Wikipedia) First Edition with the statement "First Edition" on the copyright page. Seller Inventory # 594
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