LEE, HARPER.
To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott, [1960]. Original quarter cloth over boards; dust jacket. Lower cover with a dampstain and associated wear along top board edge, jacket with dampstain on lower panel and lower flap, wear and creasing to folds and extremities including some fold splitting; unsophisticated.
First edition, first issue, presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the author the month after publication: "Herbert and Grace: You are new friends, but you seem like old ones! Affectionately, Nelle Harper Lee / August 21, 1960." Presentation copies of Lee's great classic are very rare, especially those dated to the summer of first publication.
Provenance: Directly by descent from the original recipients: Herbert and Grace Bergdahl of Lime Rock, CT.
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