To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird (Spot On Setwork Study Edition, Heinemann 2008)

Harper Lee's Pulitzer-winning novel in an annotated South African Grade 12 setwork and study guide edition

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: To Kill a Mockingbird
• Author: Harper Lee
• Editor: Melanie Bailey (additional notes)
• Publisher: Heinemann Publishers (Pty) Ltd, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Publication Date: 2008
• ISBN-13: 9780796226075
• ISBN-10: 0796226075
• Edition Details: First published 2008. Heinemann Spot On Setwork and Study Guide edition, with the novel text accompanied by editorial notes by Melanie Bailey.
• Binding: Publisher's illustrated laminated hardcover boards, pale green spine, with the Heinemann logo at the foot.
• Physical Format: Large format (roughly A4-sized), illustrated throughout. Novel text set in a blue panel with margin commentary, key word boxes, glossary and exam guidance.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Good (G)
• Exterior / Boards: The illustrated laminated boards are pale green and generally presentable. There is a small scuff or chip at the bottom corner of the front board near the spine foot, exposing white board beneath. Slight rubbing and wear to the edges and spine ends, and the bottom of the spine is slightly bumped. The back cover shows a little edge wear at the top corner, and there are light marks to the front hinge area.
• Interior: The binding appears tight and the pages seen are clean. There is a small pencil annotation, 'Helen', on page 213, written above the text. Previous owner's name appears in pink pen on the title page and the page following, and initials in black marker on the front pastedown.
• Provenance: Owner's name in pink pen, 'LEPATO RANTAC', on the title page (bottom edge) and the following page; black marker initials 'T.L.R.' on the front pastedown, lower corner; pencil 'Helen' annotation on p. 213, correcting 'Mayella' in the text.
• The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued)

Synopsis & Historical Value

This Heinemann Spot On edition presents Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird as a South African Grade 12 setwork and study guide. The full novel is reproduced with margin notes, explanations and key word boxes beside the text, alongside background on the author and the book, a glossary, advice on essay and contextual questions, and exam questions with answers.

Lee's novel is set in 1930s Alabama and follows Scout Finch and her lawyer father, who defends a Black man accused of a crime. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961 and remains one of the most widely read and taught American novels.

As a used South African school edition, this copy is a working study text with the marks of its previous owners, and is of interest to those who collect editions of Lee's novel, setwork books and the history of South African schooling.

Author Profile: Harper Lee

Nelle Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama, and died on 19 February 2016. She studied law at the University of Alabama and moved to New York City in 1949 to write. She also assisted Truman Capote with his research for In Cold Blood.

To Kill a Mockingbird won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. Her second novel, Go Set a Watchman, was published in July 2015, although it was written before Mockingbird. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007.

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