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First edition. Large 8vo., original pale brown morocco, title blind-stamped on the spine, with mocking bird on a branch in silhouette on the upper cover. London, Random House. Although publicised as the sequel of To Kill a Mockingbird by the publishers in 2015, the book has since it's publication, been described as a first draft of the famous Pulitzer prize winning novel. First written in 1957, 3 years before the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird, the novel is set some 20 years later. It reads very much as a draft, and is an interesting insight into the workings of a much loved novel. Number 39 of 100 copies signed by the author. A fine copy, housed in an elegant velvet-lined Solander box with inner tie, in green and brown, lettered in black and with railway line image on upper cover. A fine copy, as issued.

Go Set a Watchman is a novel by Harper Lee published on July 14, 2015, although it was written in the mid-1950s. The novel is set in the mid-20th century and explores the tensions between race and bigotry in the South. It is Lee's second and last novel, and serves as the earliest draft of To Kill a Mockingbird, although it was erroneously marketed as a sequel.