Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 243

Price Realized: $ 16,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Lee, Harper (1926-2016)
To Kill a Mockingbird, Inscribed First British Edition.

London: Heinemann, 1960.



First edition printed in the UK, octavo; inscribed by Lee to the Brown Family: "To all Browns --Mike, Joy, Mikey, Kelly-with all my love," in black ink on the front free flyleaf; bound in plum publisher's cloth, spine lettered in silver; with unclipped pictorial dust jacket; (a few tiny stains, some spots to ends; jacket with minor creasing and edge wear, lightly rubbed, jacket reinforced on verso at head of spine); 7 3/4 x 5 in.

For a full description of Harper Lee's connection to the Brown family, please see the previous lot.

Provenance: Howard Robert Hooper with armorial bookplate.

From the Estate of Michael and Joy Brown.