To Kill a Mockingbird. by LEE, Harper - 1960

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1960. The Pulitzer Prize-winner, finely bound First edition, first printing. To Kill a Mockingbird became an immediate bestseller and won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. This is, remarks Jonathan Daniels's in his dust jacket review for the first edition, "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". Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark brown morocco with a pictorial onlay of a tree wrapped around the covers, quote blocked in gilt on front cover, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a green cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. A fine copy.