To Kill a Mockingbird. by LEE, Harper - 1999: The 40th Anniversary Edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

New York: Harper Collins,, 1999. Octavo. Original grey boards, titles to spine in silver, tree vignette blocked in blind to front board, orange endpapers, fore edge untrimmed. With the dust jacket. A near-fine copy, the binding square and firm, gift inscription from mother to daughter to front free endpaper, paper note loosely inserted at p. 242, final line of p. 242 highlighted in yellow, in the bright jacket. 40th anniversary edition, first printing, signed by the author on the half-title. Harper Lee's classic modern masterpiece was first published in 1960. To Kill a Mockingbird became an immediate bestseller and won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It is "an authentic and nostalgic story which in rare fashion at once puts together the tenderness and the tragedy of the South. They are the inseparable ingredients of a region much reported but seldom so well understood" (Jonathan Daniels).