Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird - 1997

Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird – Easton Press – 1997 - Great Books of the 20th Century Series

This Easton Press edition presents Lee's only published novel until the posthumous release of Go Set a Watchman in 2015. First published in 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird won the Pulitzer Prize the following year and has sold over fifteen million copies worldwide. The novel draws on Lee's childhood in Monroeville, Alabama and her father Amasa Coleman Lee, a lawyer who served as the model for Atticus Finch.

The story unfolds through the eyes of eight-year-old Scout Finch in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama during the Depression. Her father's defense of Tom Robinson, a Black man falsely accused of rape, forms the center of a narrative that interweaves childhood adventure with the realities of racial injustice in the Deep South. The novel also drew on the 1931 Scottsboro Boys case, in which nine African-American youths were wrongly convicted. Lee dedicated the book to her father and sister Alice.

This edition features watercolor illustrations by Katherine Ross that evoke the Southern small-town setting with a warmth appropriate to the material.

Full genuine leather binding in dark green
Covers with gilt decorative medallion pattern and corner ornaments
Spine with raised bands and 22kt gold lettering
Gilt page edges
Satin ribbon marker
Moiré fabric endsheets
Smyth-sewn binding
Acid-neutral archival paper
Watercolor illustrations by Katherine Ross
Includes publisher's Collector's Notes insert
Printed and bound in the United States

Condition is fine. Binding tight and square. Leather shows no wear. Gilt on covers, spine, and page edges remains bright. Interior clean throughout with no foxing, annotations, or previous owner markings. Ribbon marker intact. A well-preserved collector's copy.

Ships from Germany. Carefully packed in cardboard book mailer with protective wrapping.