Description
Signed limited edition of Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee.
Octavo, [8], 278pp, [4]. Full blue morocco, title in gilt on spine and front cover. Gilted border and embellishments, all edges gilt, patterned endpapers. Stated “First Edition” on copyright page with full number line. A fine copy, appears unread. Housed in the publisher’s deluxe clamshell case, full blue cloth, illustration printed in black. Internally lined with matching blue felt, with a quote and an illustration stamped in black. Includes the publisher’s original shipping crate, with label on the front cover.
From a limited edition of 500 copies signed by the author, this being number 116. This copy is signed by Harper Lee on the limitation page.
HarperCollins Publishers originally marketed Go Set a Watchman as a sequel to Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, 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 was later confirmed by the papers of literary agents Annie Laurie Williams and Maurice Crain, which detail years of revisions by Lee and the publishing team.
