TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by HARPER LEE - 1960

NEW YORK: Lippincott, 1960. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. STATED FIRST (1st EDITION 4th PRINTING) IN CLEAN TIGHT 296 PAGE HARDCOVER. ALL PAGES CLEAN AND UNMARK with no bookplates, inscriptions, tears, creases. Clean brown boards with green cloth spine stamped and lettered in brown. A clean, bright, tight copy with no previous owner's markings. Very clean inside and out. Tips and ends sharp, Text very clean. No smudges, no dog ears or names. This is almost identical to the first printing only months earlier. A rare quality piece of Pulitzer history that is becoming impossible to find ! To Kill a Mockingbird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was instantly successful and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old.Lee's novel was initially reviewed by at least 30 newspapers and magazines, whose critics varied widely in their assessments. More recently, British librarians ranked the book ahead of the Bible as one "every adult should read before they die"..