Description
The first edition, first printing of Go Set a Watchman, signed on a bookplate by Harper Lee.
Octavo, [6], 278pp. Black hardcover. Stated first edition on the copyright page, with a full number line. Appears unread. This work was produced by The Alabama Booksmith, and limited to 714 copies, this being number 437. The dust jacket, slipcase and signed pamphlet were added after publication.
Signed on bookplate affixed to the half title by Harper Lee.
HarperCollins Publishers originally marketed Go Set a Watchman as a sequel to Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning To Kill a Mockingbird. Upon release, it became clear to readers that Watchman was a first draft of Mockingbird, due to repeated passages, characterizations, and themes between the two novels. This is since confirmed by the papers of literary agents Annie Laurie Williams and Maurice Crain, which detail years of revisions by Lee and the publishing team.
