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First trade edition of Lee's second novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Harper Lee on the half-title page. This copy was a gift from Lee's attorney Tonja Brooks Carter to a clerk of the court in Monroeville, Alabama. Brooks Carter was responsible for rediscovering the manuscript of this novel and instrumental to its publication. The last signed copy at auction brought $12,000. While signed limited editions are available, signed trade editions are decidedly scarce and with noted provenance. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jarrod Taylor. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman imparts a fuller, richer understanding and appreciation of Harper Lee. Here is an unforgettable novel of wisdom, humanity, passion, humor, and effortless precision—a profoundly affecting work of art that is both wonderfully evocative of another era and relevant to our own times. Go Set a Watchman is more complex than Harper Lee's original classic. A satisfying novel—it is, in most respects, a new work, and a pleasure, revelation, and genuine literary event (The Guardian).

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.