New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995. Thirty-fifth anniversary edition, signed by Lee. 8vo. Original black cloth; publisher's dust jacket.

To Kill A Mockingbird became an instant classic upon its release in 1960, winning a Pulitzer Prize the following year and an Academy Award-winning motion picture adaptation starring Gregory Peck released the year after that. It has remained a touchstone of 20th century American literature.

"Harper Lee’s only novel touched a nerve in American society when it was first published… The author claimed that her story of racial bias in the sleepy fictional Alabama town of Maycomb was pure imagination, but reporters who visited her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, on the 30th anniversary of the book’s publication found remarkable similarities to the novel in both setting and character. In essence, the racial ills chronicled in the novel appear to have been realistically drawn from the author’s life” (100 Banned Books, pp.404-405).