first edition
1960 · London, Melbourne, Toronto
by Lee, Harper
London, Melbourne, Toronto: Heinemann, 1960. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. First UK edition of one of the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, in excellent condition. The story of tomboy Scout and her father Atticus Finch, a white lawyer who defends a Black man against a racist rape charge, takes place in a small Alabama town during the Depression. While importantly criticized as a white savior narrative, the book has been one of the most widely assigned books in US schools; it has been called "our American novel" by Oprah Winfrey, was quoted by Barack Obama in his farewell address, and inspired countless real-life civil rights lawyers – among (truncated)