To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee [1962 FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING]

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION / PRINTING [1962] POPULAR LIBRARY

First mass market printing.  Excellent reading copy with moderate wear to cover and tanning to pages.  Binding is tight.  *name of prev. owner written atop first page. 

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.

Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.