To kill a mockingbird 1st edition

First Edition; Sixteenth Printing. Dust jacket is a stated "Seventh Printing" married to a "Sixteenth Printing" book club edition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and in very good condition. Dust jacket is worn particularly at extremities with a 1" tear on back panel and soiling to back panel but bright and overall in good condition.

DJ flap is price clipped. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. 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 , when she was 10 years old.

The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with serious issues of rape and racial inequality. The narrator's father, Atticus Finch, has served as a moral hero for many readers and as a model of integrity for lawyers. One critic explained the novel's impact by writing, "In the twentieth century, To Kill a Mockingbird is probably the most widely read book dealing with race in America, and its protagonist, Atticus Finch, the most enduring fictional image of racial heroism.

Used - Hardcover Condition: Fine. Condition: Fine. Lippincott Company, This is printed only months after the first printing! Book is in fine clean interrior condition looks new with tight binding, pages. Very good condition boards with no wear. Comes with seldom found fine clean original eighth printing jacket with mylar protected wrapper clipped. Not a book club or other variant. This is a very exquisite condition early printing one of the best of this fabulous pulitzer prize winner.

And, a reasonable alternative to the rare first printing! Extremely rare fine clean bright seventh printing of the first edition stated with good unclipped original jacket stated seventh printing jacket. Hardcover is bound tight, pages are clean, no marks ,creases, writing,labels,etc.

This book looks almost new and almost identical to first impression months earlier. With very good jacket -hardly ever found in this condition. It has been price clipped on inside flap and is in a mylar protected slip cover. A very rare early printing found with it's even rarer quality jacket.

First edition, 18th printing. Book looks identical to the first printing, just substituting 18th printing for First Printing on the copyright page. Brown paper boards quarter bound with green cloth. Corners are sharp and book is tight and square. Endpapers are bright and clean. Light soiling to green cloth binding. Binding and hinges are strong. Pages are tight. Price-clipped DJ with stated Seventh Printing present on front flap. DJ shows open edge chips.

A small star drawn on back cover of DJ. Published by lippincott, new york, Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. This is in fine clean bright almost like new condition with no marks,writing,stamps,etc. Not a book club or other variant but the real original trade printing. Compared to first printing it is almost the same and for thousands of dollars less. It comes with a beautiful protective facsimile first printing jacket with author Harper lee's picture that together would light up any bookshelf!.

First edition, 18th printing in an Eighteenth printing DJ. Brown boards quarterbound in green cloth binding. Book lis identical to the first printing, just substituting 18th printing for First printing on copyright page. This book is fine. Book appears unread. Marks Rare Books Published []. Condition Bookplate of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Seller Bren-Books. Seller Royal Books, Inc. It has been translated into more than forty languages and has sold more than forty million copies worldwide.

In it was also made into the film starring Gregory Peck, which won three Academy Awards. Therefore, this post will not be dedicated to the plot or characters of the novel, but instead to the basic understanding of how to identify a first edition of this book.

To Kill a Mockingbird was published by J. Lippincott Co. Because Harper Lee had never published a book before, the publisher had only an estimated first printing run of 5, copies, many of which went to public libraries, where they put the usual library marks on them. Due to the fact that it was such a sensational hit, it was also well read, which means that finding a pristine first edition dust jacket of this book is extremely rare.

Capote quote in green ink on front flap. It seems that there is a preference for the Daniels state. Photo of Lee on the rear panel of the dust jacket not a real point as this was kept until the third printing and also appeared on early book club editions.

However any printings, even book club editions that have the author photo are in demand. Salinger Literature. Denton Garrett said:.