To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - circa 1960

Harper Lee's riveting portrayal of the challenges of life in a small Alabama town captured everyday life at one of the South's pivotal moments. To Kill a Mockingbird quickly became a best seller and received 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." (Jonathan Daniels) Boldly Inscribed by the author: "To the Russells, with best wishes, Harper Lee." Brown paper boards and in the original unclipped dust jacket in very good plus condition with very minor peripheral wear and a half-inch tear at rear flap fold. Overall a bright copy in a like dust jacket. No internal markings. A collector's copy. Provenance: Bauman Rare Books Invoice laid in.