To Kill a Mockingbird.

First edition of the author's only novel; one which garnered her the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original green cloth backed brown boards, titles to spine in gilt. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication, "To Miss Ethel / with love, / Nelle Harper / September 17, 1960" on the front free endpaper. The dedicatee’s name is above the author’s inscription. Near fine with minor wear to the spine extremities in the original first issue dust jacket with the Jonathan Daniels blurb on the rear flap and the photograph of the author taken by Truman Capote on the rear panel, which has had some professional restoration. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. The first edition had a printing run of 5,000 copies and was published in July 1960, this copy was inscribed two months after publication. A warm inscription.