8vo. Original green cloth-backed boards; dust jacket (some wear and chipping along extremities, rear panel of jacket detached, light spotting to text-block and endpapers). Provenance: Smith & Hardwick, Birmingham, Alabama (booksellers' ticket); John B. Briskey (presentation inscription from the author).

Fifth printing. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY LEE: "For John B. Briskey/with my best wishes,/Harper Lee."

"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).