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New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. First edition, first printing. Signed by Alice Walker on the half title page. Bound in publisher's original paper-covered boards over purple spine cloth lettered in silver. Very Good+ with slight lean to binding and light rubbing to silver lettering on spine, toning at edges, and faint slit to front cover. Light soiling and wear. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with corresponding slit to front panel, light general wear. A great copy of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning novel. Later adapted into the 1985 Academy Award nominated film by Steven Spielberg starring Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1982. First Edition, First Printing. First edition, first printing. First edition BCDE on copyright page. Signed by author on a tipped in page from a signed limited edition therefore the authenticity is guaranteed. Measuring approximately 8.75" x 5.75" with 245 numbered pages. This book is in very good condition. Moderate bumping and sunning to spine. Moderate staining to both boards and edges of textblock. Interior pages are bright and clean. Dust jacket is in good condition. Moderate chipping to both ends fos pine and around edges of jacket. Original 11.95 price on front flap. The novel has been the target of censors numerous times, and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000-2010 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit content, particularly in terms of violence. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in… Read More

Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1982. first. hardcover. very good/very good. First edition, as stated on copyright page. Signed by author on partial title page from another book, laid-in. Book very good, some rubbing to edges, bumped lower corners, rear free end paper missing a piece, a couple of clear stickers and remnant of removal to rear paste-down. Dust jacket very good, some wear and tear along edges, front flap partially detached. Comes in supplied slipcase.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 245pp.; HB quarter-bound; white w/purple&silver; slight rub w/lt.wear on edges; lt.soil,foredge; clean,tight pgs. DJ palegray w/purple-pic.cover; slight rub. Walker's classic of two sisters in a period between the World Wars. laid in signed title page from the paperback editiion.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1982. First Edition; Fifth Printing. Hardcover. 0151191530 . Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Small closed tear on top front gutter. ; Author signature on half title page. .

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. First edition, early printing of Walker's third novel, which made her the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Judith Kazdym Leeds. With a promotional brochure for the 1985 film directed by Steven Spielberg, signed by Alice Walker. [A Steven Spielberg Film: The Color Purple: Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize Winning Story. Warner Bros. Inc.: 1985]. Oblong octavo, original purple wrappers, illustrated with color photographs from the film. In fine condition. A nice pairing. Her third novel, The Color Purple won Alice Walker the 1983 Pulitzer Prize, making her the first African-American woman to win one. "While Walker's first two novels end in the promise of good, The Color Purple ends in happiness, reunion and celebration. Walker has said that she took her great-grandmother's life, which included rape and childbearing at age 11, and gave it a happy… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich [1982], 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [10], 3-245, [1] pp. Quarter purple cloth over cream paper-covered boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $11.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. First printing of the first edition in the correct dust jacket. Ahearn APG 012b. Walker's third novel, a powerful portrayal of sisterhood and of resilience in the face of cruelty. Alice Walker's masterpiece explores the Black and queer experiences in the South during the twentieth century. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, basis for the acclaimed 1985 film directed by Steven Spielberg. A lovely copy of this high spot of modern literature. A touch of fading and wear to the boards' edges; jacket with a hint of edge wear.

London: The Women's Press, 1986. First British hardcover edition. First British hardcover edition. Signed by Alice Walker on the page following the front free endpaper [vi], 245, [5] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with silver spine lettering. Fine, with pages a bit age-toned, in Fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed.

St. Albans, West Virginia: Parchment Gallery Graphics), 1999. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Single sheet, measuring 8" x 10", consisting of a photographically reproduced image of an oil lamp, quill pen, and a brief passage from *The Color Purple*. The broadside is housed in a brown leatherette silk-lined folder, stamped in gold. With a colophon leaf in a paper folder laid in, all housed in an unprinted envelope. Fine. One of 49 copies Signed by Alice Walker in gold ink and numbered in white over a Parchment Gallery Graphics blindstamp. The colophon states: "Originally intended for an edition of 99 pieces (as stated on the [printed] image) only 49 copies and one Printer's Proof were issued for commercial purposes." An attractive publication, published in a remarkably small limitation. *OCLC* locates three copies (UC Berkeley, Delaware, Georgia).

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/fine. Octavo, 245pp. A crisp, clean copy, near fine, in the publisher's white boards with purple cloth spine. Spine gently cocked, else very nice. In a fine dust jacket, with two miniscule abrasions to the front panel, and a small area of sticker ghost on the front flap. A very sharp copy of Walker's breakout novel, which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award.

Good condition, the dust cover has some yellowing and a few very minor rips on the edges.

New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1982. Winner of both the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. Basis for excellent film. Bookplate on front endpaper applied with glue, else fine. Jacket is bright and fresh with short crease and tiny wrinkle on back panel. First edition stated then B C D E on copyright page. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Cloth backed boards, very good in dust jacket, light soil to boards, slight bumping to spine head, jacket with a few tiny abrasions and spots of rubbing, one or two very short closed tears, $11.95 price, bottom of rear flap with 4 lines of which the publisher name and address take up two lines (later jackets also have their San Diego address). Handsome copy that presents well of Walker's masterpiece (so much better than the movie versions!).

London: The Women's Press, 1986. First edition, first printing. Published by The Women's Press in London, 1986. This is a near fine copy. The dust wrapper, illustrated by Cathie Felstead, has some curling at the top edge and some very minor handling marks. It has not been price clipped, showing the original £9.95 net price. The boards are free from previous owners marks and tight at the hinges. The text blocks are bright and white throughout and carry a very minor bump. There is a previous owners signature to the front fly, marked out with a black marker. This is a near fine copy of the first hardback edition. An epistolary novel which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name.

THE 2 ITEMS SIGNED BY ALICE WALKER ARE: 10TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION OD THE COLOR PURPLE,HARDBACK,NO DEFECTS I CAN SEE,PROBABLY ONLY OPEN TO SIGN ON THE MAIN TITLE PAGE,3RD PRINTING. THE 2ND ITEM IS THE COLOR PURPLE MOVIE PROGRAM GIVEN AS PART OF PRESS KIT FOR THE MOVIE RELEASE.SIGNED ON THE 1ST LEAF,ABOUT 12X12 ABOUT 30 PAGES OF PHOTOS FROM THE MOVIE ON HEAVY STOCK PAPER, SUITABLE FOR FRAMING. 2 ITEMS NOT SIGNED IS A 3RD PRINTING 1982, THE COLOR PURPLE,HARCOURT,NY,2ND STATE DJ,PRICE INTACT,BUT THE DJ HAS MINOR SOILING.THE BOOK HAS MINOR SOILING ON THE PAGE ENDS,AND MINOR SOILING ON THE VERY EDGES OF THE COVERS AS WELL. THE NEXT BOOK OF THE COLOR PURPLE IS A 1ST PRINTING 1982 HARCOURT,NY. IT IS A FORMER LIBRARY BOOK WITH THE ONLY MARKING IS A STAMP ON THE UPPER PAGE ENDS. i BOUGHT THIS BOOK LONG AGO,WITH REALLY BAD COVERS WITH THE INTENTION OF HAVING IT RECOVERED IN LEATHER,THEN HAVE ALICE WALKER SIGN IT,BUT MY HEALTH MAKES IT WISER TO SELL AS IS. IT HAS NO COVERS,FROM 1ST LEAF TO LAST LEAF IS… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Harcourt Brace & Company, 1992. First Thus Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. Finem first thus edition. Alice Walker's masterpiece, a powerful novel of courage in the face of oppression. Originally published in 1982, THE COLOR PURPLE won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction. This is the Tenth Anniversary Edition. Fine, first thus printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. Celie has grown up in rural Georgia, navigating a childhood of ceaseless abuse. Not only is she poor and despised by the society around her, she's badly treated by her family. As a teenager she begins writing letters directly to God in an attempt to transcend a life that often seems too much to bear. Her letters span twenty years and record a journey of self-discovery and empowerment through the guiding light of a few strong women and her own implacable will to find harmony… Read More

(København) [Copenhagen]: Lindhardt og Ringhof, 1984. Softcover. Very Good. First Danish edition. Translated by Annelise Schønnemann. Octavo. 255pp. Text in Danish. French-folded wrappers. Binding very slightly cocked, wrappers with modest wear and two very light vertical spine creases, very good or better. Review copy with the publisher's slip laid in, as well as a contemporary Danish newspaper review of the book. The Danish version of *The Color Purple* was reprinted several times in the 1980s, but this first edition seems to be very uncommon. *OCLC* locates a single copy, in Denmark's National Library of Education.

The Women's Press Ltd, London, 1986. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first UK casebound edition. 8vo. 245pp. Black cloth lettered in silver at the spine. A narrow strip of very light browning to a single preliminary and concluding leaf, else a fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, marred only by a touch of chafing to the head of the spine panel. The author's celebrated third novel, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It was first published in the US in 1982; a UK paperback edition followed a year later but somewhat scandalously it was not issued in the UK in casebound format until this 1986 edition. Uncommon..

1986. The Women's Press. London. 1986. DW. First edition, first issue, UK. Pages very slightly browned to edges, very slight wear to edges of boards otherwise a clean and sound copy in very slightly creased wrapper. A lovely copy of this classic work.

The Women's Press 1986. FIRST UK HARDCOVER EDITION, super octavo, black heavy card boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 245pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, ligth scuffing & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling to covers)