{"id":778906,"date":"2026-09-22T13:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T13:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/778906\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T13:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T13:30:13","slug":"to-kill-a-mockingbird-first-edition-found-in-london-oxfam-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/778906\/","title":{"rendered":"To Kill a Mockingbird first edition found in London Oxfam shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A rare first edition of the novel To Kill A Mockingbird has been found among items donated to Oxfam, according to the charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The copy of Harper Lee&#8217;s seminal 1960 work was discovered in a box of American books given to the charity&#8217;s bookshop in Portobello Road, west London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has since been acquired by the British Library and will join its national collection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shop manager Olivia Haysman-Walker, who identified the copy as being a first US edition, said the book could easily have been missed. &#8220;There were lots of books to work through in the donation, but we recognised To Kill A Mockingbird and thought it was worth taking a closer look.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;We realised quite quickly that we had something really special.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The dust jacket showed its age, and although it was worn around the edges, the pages inside were in beautiful condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s amazing to think that this book has passed through our Oxfam bookshop and into the national collection at the British Library.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It really has been quite a journey, and it&#8217;s a lovely reminder, during Second Hand September, of the kind of treasures that can be hiding among the shelves and donations in our shops.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Second Hand September is Oxfam&#8217;s annual campaign encouraging people to buy second-hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rare first edition of the novel To Kill A Mockingbird has been found among items donated to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-778906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}