[Literature] Lee, Nelle Harper. (b. 1926)
To Kill a Mockingbird - Signed and Inscribed for Christmas
Philadelphia: [J. B. Lippincott] Harper & Row. [1960] 1999. Later impression (price of $21.95 on dj). A fine copy, signed and inscribed in black ink on the first free end page "Merry Christmas Claudia and Joe! Harper Lee." In fine condition, with minor light staining to front cover and spine, dustjacket with light edge wear. 296 pages.Lee's only published novel was instantly successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. In 2008, a UK Guardian survey of librarians ranked the book ahead of the Bible as one "every adult should read before they die." (8076)
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