Search Results: the color purple by alice walker

St. Albans, West Virginia: Parchment Gallery Graphics, 1999. Softcover. Fine. First (only) edition. Quarto. Flexible red plasticized portfolio. Fine. Consists of a yellow colophon page and facing that, fitted into silk corner mounts, a duotone image of a lantern overlaid with one of the most frequently quoted passages by Celie from *The Color Purple*. Designed by William Plumley, with a tissue guard in between. The colophon reveals that 99 copies were supposed to have been prepared, but only 49 numbered copies and one proof were eventually made, this example being the sole proof copy. The bottom of the image is Signed by Alice Walker in gold ink, and is numbered in white album ink ("proof") by Plumley. A handsome production. Rare. *OCLC* locates three copies.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. 245p., signed by Walker on the title page, stated first edition with letters BCDE as called for by Zempel & Werkler, lightly shelfworn quarter-cloth boards in edgeworn unclipped dust jacket with original $11.95 price intact. True first of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel for 1983, signed.

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; Tenth Printing. Hardcover. 0151191530 . Fine in a Fine dust jacket. ; Signed by author on title page FEP. ; 8.4 X 5.8 X 1.1 inches; 245 pages; Signed by Author .

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 an 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, 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… Read More

UK: W&N. A fine UK 40th Anniversary Edition hardback - first printing thus in a fine unclipped dustjacket - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR via a 'Signed by the Author' page - Pictures available upon request . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 2022.

London: W&N, 2022. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 1st Printing. Signed to tip in page. Brand new copy.

New York: Scribner / Simon & Schuster, 1996 First printing of the first edition. Signed by Alice Walker on the half-title page (sale includes provenance, loosely laid-in). Front upper corner rubbed, else book in fine, as new condition; dust jacket with an unobtrusive chip to upper front fold, else fine.