Go Set a Watchman (Rare Limited Misprinted UK Edition)

Lee, Harper

ISBN 10: 1785150286 / ISBN 13: 9781785150289

Published by Heinemann, 2015

About this Item

Near fine condition.Heinemann,2015. Rare Limited Misprint copy with publisher's printing errors (lines of text missing at the bottom of six pages between 252 and 277). First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2). Grey hardback(black lettering to the spine, two small nicks on the edges of the cover and spine) with Dj(very small tear, a couple of creases and small nicks on the edges of the Dj cover), both in near fine condition.Nice and clean pages with a small ink mark on the outer edges, a couple of creases on the edges of the pages.Nice and clean book with light shelf wear on the Dj cover.278pp.Price un-clipped. A collectable and rare misprint first edition-first printing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Go Set a Watchman (Rare Limited Misprinted UK Edition)
• Publisher: Heinemann
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785150286
• ISBN 13: 9781785150289
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First UK edition-first printing.
• Condition: Near fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

Go Set a Watchman is set during the mid-1950s and features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Scout (Jean Louise Finch) has returned to Maycomb from New York to visit her father Atticus. She is forced to grapple with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand both her father’s attitude toward society, and her own feelings about the place where she was born and spent her childhood. An instant classic.

From the Back Cover

Now available in a gorgeous, limited leatherbound edition, Harper Lee s landmark #1New York Timesbestselling novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird.

Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch Scout returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise s homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town, and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. Featuring many of the iconic characters fromTo Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchmanperfectly captures a young woman, and a world, in painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past a journey that can only be guided by one s own conscience.

Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchmanimparts 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. It not only confirms the enduring brilliance of To Kill a Mockingbird, but also serves as its essential companion, adding depth, context, and new meaning to an American classic."