HARPER LEE To Kill A Mockingbird 1960 HB DW 23rd Impression, US Edition
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To Kill a MockingbirdAuthorHarper LeePublisherJ B Lippincott, Phildelphia, 1960Printing DetailsTwenty-third impression. Hardback in dustwrapper. 21 x 14cm, 296pp.About the BookAn early American edition. 'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Fin...ch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much. To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story, an anti-racist novel, a historical drama of the Great Depression and a sublime example of the Southern writing tradition.ConditionThe book is in good readable shape, but with lengthy previous owner's inscription to ffep and brief annotation to the Charles Lamb quotation, and with a slight lean to spine but otherwise the quarter green cloth binding is in clean condition, as are the pages and secure binding. The dustwrapper is chipped to the edges, folds and spine ends but remains attractive. It has been price-clipped but is now within a protective sleeve.Important NoteThe image shown is the book you will receive, we do not use stock images.
