Search Results: the color purple by alice walker

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, 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

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, 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

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

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.

New York: Scribner, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x9. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author on bookplate adhered to front free endpaper with no inscription. "Autographed copy" sticker on front jacket panel, jacket flaps lightly soiled. 1996 Hard Cover. 302 pp. The personal memoirs of Alice Walker consider how fame, illness, betrayal, and the Pulitzer Prize have impacted her personal life, career, and evolution as an artist.