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Author: Lee, Harper
Title: To Kill a Mockingbird
Place: Philadelphia & New York
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott
Date: [1960]
Item # : 153674
Description:
Green cloth-backed brown boards, pictorial jacket. First Edition.
First printing of the 1961 Pulitzer Prize Award-winning story that takes place during the Great Depression, and the basis for the classic 1962 film starring Gregory Peck. First issue jacket with Truman Capote's quote blurb on the top front flap printed in green.
Condition:
Short tears and tiny chips to jacket edges (chiefly at spine ends and corners), price clipped, creases, light rubbing, 2x3½" dampstain to bottom middle of jacket (most affecting verso); spine ends and corners a bit bumped; slight bubbling top right pastedown corner, gift inscription dated July 1960; still a clean and tight copy, very good in an about very good jacket.
Sale Number   298
Lot Number   165
Sale Name    
Fine Modern Literature: The Library of the Late William Swing
Sale Date   11/18/2004
Price realized   $ 6900

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