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To Kill A Mockingbird signed by Harper Lee

Harper Lee has been the focus of massive media attention recently with the publication of Go Set A Watchman, the sequel to her Pulitzer Prize winning To Kill A Mockingbird. Surprisingly,  a recent attempt to sell some personal letters at auction fell flat, although there seems to be considerable renewed interest in snapping up a rare signed first edition of her well-loved first novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

Personal letters of Harper Lee fail to sell at auction | Books …
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After much advance press coverage, and in a year of unprecedented interest in the private life of Harper Lee, six personal letters of hers on sale at Christie’s on Friday have failed to sell at auction. The six letters were addressed to Lee’s architect friend, Harold Caulfield, and dated between … The letters were also signed with comic pseudonyms, including “the prisoner of Zenda.” In the last six months Lee has been the subject of many headlines, most of them relating to …

Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’ sells over 1 million in first week …
Rand Daily Mail, on Mon, 20 Jul 2015 08:11:15 -0700
Harper Lee’s unexpected new novel “Go Set A Watchman” has become the fastest selling book in the history of publisher HarperCollins, with more than 1.1 million copies sold in North America in the first week, the company said on Monday. The novel was …

 Be Suspicious of the New Harper Lee Novel – Jezebel
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Two and a half months after the death of Harper Lee’s sister (and lawyer) and 55 years since the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird, HarperCollins has announced the summer release of Go Set a Watchman, the elusive …

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