LEE, HARPER. To Kill A Mockingbird. London Heinemann 1960, 1960.

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Description: First British Edition. Signed by Mary Badham, the actress who played Scout Finch in the classic motion picture adaptation, with a quotation handwritten by Ms. Badham of her dialogue from the film: ÒWell, it would be like shooting a mockingbird wouldnÕt it?Ó Scout Finch - Mary Badham.Ó The line is spoken by Scout towards the end of the film when Sheriff Tate and Atticus (Gregory Peck) agree that Boo Radley should not be brought forth for killing Bob Ewell while Radley was defending Scout and her brother, as Ewell had been attacking the children. Atticus asks her if she understands why they are doing this, and with her growing awareness and maturity she replies with the above line. Mary Badham gave one of the finest performances by a child in motion picture history and she was nominated for an Academy Award. Both the novel and the film are told through the eyes of Scout making this book a very charming piece with the signed quotation. About fine copy with the barest hint of edge wear in a near fine bright dust jacket with some very minor fading at the spine. Laid in is a color photograph of Ms. Badham holding a copy of the Fortieth Anniversary Edition of To Kill a Mockingbird which was released in 1999 taken at the time this copy was signed by Badham.

Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.

Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. William Heinemann, London, 1960.

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Condition: Near Fine

Description: First British edition, first printing. Signed by Harper Lee on the front free end paper. Bound in publisher's original maroon cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in silver. Near Fine with foxing to textblock edge, light offsetting to endsheets. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear, browning, light foxing and light fading to the spine. A lovely copy, signed by the author.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Lee, Harper (Truman Capote). To Kill a Mockingbird.. Heinemann, London, 1960.

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Description: First British edition of Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by both Harper Lee and Truman Capote on the front free endpaper. Truman Capote’s friendship with Harper Lee began in the summer of 1929 when the two became next door neighbors in Monroeville, Alabama; both were the age of five. They shared a love of reading and began collaborating when Lee was gifted a typewriter by her father as a child. Lee drew on their friendship as inspiration for the characters Lee and Scout in her masterpiece To Kill A Mockingbird; Capote based his tomboy character Idabel Thompkins in his first novel Other Voices, Other Rooms on Lee. They worked together on Capote’s true crime novel, In Cold Blood; Lee acted as his ‘assistant researchist’ and edited the final draft of the book. Upon its publication in 1965, Capote failed to acknowledge Lee’s contributions to the book, after which their relationship was never the same. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing and wear to the extremities. Jacket design by Fratini. Exceptionally rare and desirable signed by both Lee and Capote. To Kill a Mockingbird became an immediate bestseller and won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The New Yorker declared it "skilled, unpretentious, and totally ingenious". It has gone on to become of the best-loved classics of all time and has been translated into more than forty languages selling more than forty million copies worldwide. Made into the Academy Award-winning film, directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Gregory Peck. It went on to win three Oscars: Best Actor for Gregory Peck, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White, and Best Screenplay for Horton Foote. It was nominated for five more Oscars including Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Mary Badham, the actress who played Scout. In 1995, the film was listed in the National Film Registry. In 2003, the American Film Institute named Atticus Finch the greatest movie hero of the 20th century. In 2007 the film ranked twenty-fifth on the AFI's 10th anniversary list of the greatest American movies of all time. It was named the best novel of the twentieth century by librarians across the country (Library Journal).

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.