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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.

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.

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, 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… Leer más

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, early printing of Walker's third novel, in which she became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Lois, in peace and joy! Alice Walker June 2006." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Judith Kazdym Leeds. 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 ending. Once again she had begun with one of her ancestors' stories, completing and transmuting it through her art" (African American Writers, 351). "Critics have both praised and attacked Walker's use… Leer más

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.

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. 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.