Feb 17, 2022 - Sale 2595

Sale 2595 - Lot 193

Price Realized: $ 10,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 9,000 - $ 12,000
LEE, HARPER. To Kill A Mockingbird. 8vo, publisher's light green 1/4 cloth-backed grey paper boards, spine tips lightly faded; price-clipped dust jacket, twenty-second printing, spotting to flaps, folds and corners rubbed, scattered creasing; custom clamshell box. Twenty-third impression, presentation copy, signed and inscribed by both Lee and Horton Foote to Margaret MacDonnell, a long-time production assistant with Universal Pictures, who worked with both writers on the film adaptation. On the front free endpaper it reads "To Margaret: / With my love and / best wishes, / Harper Lee"; the rear endpaper: "For Margaret / with gratitude & / thanks for her / patience - / Horton Foote." Lee and Foote famously worked closely together on the film's script and enjoyed a long friendship aside from this famous and enormously successfull collaboration. The film was released in 1962 and this later impression closely corresponds with the timing of the film. It won three Academy Awards, including Foote garnering the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. Certainly among the finest association copies of this iconic title. Philadelphia & New York: Lippincott, (1960) [but c. 1962]