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Lee, Harper (1926-2016) To Kill a Mockingbird, Inscribed Book Club Edition.
Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1960.
First Book Club edition, octavo, signed and inscribed by Lee, "To Marjorie, with love," in ink on the front free flyleaf; bound in tan cloth, spine lettered in white, top edge tinted yellow; original pictorial dust-jacket with quote by Truman Capote and his portrait of Lee on the rear panel (a few tiny nicks, a section of toning to lower panel of dust-jacket); 8 ¼ x 5 ½ in.
Marjorie Brown Thompson was the sister of composer Michael Brown. Brown and his wife, the ballerina Joy Brown, provided Lee with support in 1956 so she could focus on the composition of her magnum opus.
