To Kill A Mockingbird by LEE, HARPER - 1960

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1960. First Edition. A few later leaves creased; very good or slightly better in a price-clipped dust jacket with minor wear, free of the “touch up” (coloring, sometimes well done, sometimes crude) or “restoration” so often found; in a custom cloth clamshell box. The author’s signature is laid in. This is the correct first printing dust jacket, widely erroneously termed a first “state” or “issue.” Later jackets were on later printings of the book and were apparently not states or issues. Such misuse of terminology can be attributable to no more than ignorance or negligence, but it can be intentional, in which case it is meant to mislead. Hasn’t our language suffered enough already?