HARPER LEE'S TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD 1960 BCE

Harper Lee's "TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD" 1ST EDITION, BCE, with the JACKET that has HARPER LEE'S photo on rear cover that was taken by TRUMAN CAPOTE. As you can see from the pictures this book is in VERY GOOD CONDITION!! No cracks in Hardcover binding, no tears on any of the pages, some yellowing due to age. The jacket has small tares on edges due to being on bookshelf. Does have writing from previous owners to their child ON ONLY ONE PAGE. This book is sure to please any avid collector! FREE SHIPPING!!! SYNOPSIS: Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, to Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up. Like the slow-moving occupants of her fictional town, Lee takes her time getting to the heart of her tale; we first meet the Finches the summer before Scout"s first year at school. She, her brother, and Dill Harris, a boy who spends the summers with his aunt in Maycomb, while away the hours playing scenes from Dracula and plotting ways to get a peek at the town bogeyman, Boo Radley. At first the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape of Mayella Ewell, the daughter of a drunk and violent white farmer, barely penetrate the children"s consciousness. Then Atticus is called on to defend the accused, Tom Robinson, and soon Scout and Jem find themselves caught up in events beyond their understanding. During the trial, the town exhibits its ugly side, but Lee offers plenty of counterbalance as well--in the struggle of an elderly woman to overcome her morphine habit before she dies; in the heroism of Atticus Finch, standing up for what he knows is right; and finally in Scout"s hard-won understanding that most people are essentially kind "when you really see them." by turns funny, wise, and heartbreaking.