Harper Lee – To Kill A Mockingbird – First Folio Society Edition 1996
£95.00
A first Folio Society edition, first printing of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, published by The Folio Society, London in 1996, with introduction by Albert French and illustrations by Aafke Brouwer. A very fine book free from internal inscriptions, orange cloth bound boards with gilt interlocking bird cage design by Brouwer, gilt titling to the spine, text blocks are bright and crisp. In mottled ochre paper bound slip case.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a powerful novel set in the racially segregated American South during the 1930s. Narrated by young Scout Finch, it follows her father, Atticus Finch, as he defends Tom Robinson, a black man falsely accused of assaulting a white woman. Through Scout’s eyes, the novel explores themes of justice, prejudice and moral growth. With warmth and poignancy, it highlights the loss of innocence and the importance of empathy and integrity.
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A first Folio Society edition, first printing of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, published by The Folio Society, London in 1996, with introduction by Albert French and illustrations by Aafke Brouwer. A very fine book free from internal inscriptions, orange cloth bound boards with gilt interlocking bird cage design by Brouwer, gilt titling to the spine, text blocks are bright and crisp. In mottled ochre paper bound slip case.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a powerful novel set in the racially segregated American South during the 1930s. Narrated by young Scout Finch, it follows her father, Atticus Finch, as he defends Tom Robinson, a black man falsely accused of assaulting a white woman. Through Scout’s eyes, the novel explores themes of justice, prejudice and moral growth. With warmth and poignancy, it highlights the loss of innocence and the importance of empathy and integrity.
