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About this book
The Color Purple is an acclaimed epistolary novel by
American author Alice Walker. Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, this
collection of letters weaves an intricate mosaic of women joined by their love
for each other, the men who abuse them, and the children they care for. In
this, The Color Purple focuses on black female life in the American South
during the 1930s, addressing the numerous issues including their exceedingly
low position in American social culture.
The novel received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. Because of the explicit content, particularly in terms of violence, The Color Purple has been a frequent target of censors, appearing on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999.
The novel received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. Because of the explicit content, particularly in terms of violence, The Color Purple has been a frequent target of censors, appearing on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999.
First Edition Identification
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich first published The Color Purple in New York in 1982. First editions state “First Edition” on the copyright page along with “BCDE,” the publisher’s code.
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- Title The Color Purple
- Author Walker, Alice
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 245
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York
- Date 1982
- ISBN 9780151191536
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The Color Purple
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The Color Purple, A Novel
by Walker, Alice
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. BOMC. Hardcover. 0151191530 . Book Fine, cream and purple boards, NO notes, names or ANY markings. DJ Very Good with light wear across top edge with 1/2" tear at front corner else rest of DJ Fine, bright and NOT rubbed, not clipped. ONLY indication of BoMC Is blind stamp at rear board. FINE copy. ; 244 pages .
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The Color Purple; A Novel
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San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. L. A. Hyder (Author photograph). Format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.5 inches. 245, [3] pages. DJ is in a plastic sleeve, and has some wear and soiling. Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry. Walker wrote the poems that would culminate in her first book of poetry, entitled Once, while she was a student in East Africa and during her senior year at college. Walker would slip her poetry under the office door of Muriel Rukeyser, when she was a student at Sarah Lawrence. Rukeyser then showed the poems to her literary…
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The Color Purple
by Walker, Alice
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USA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1982 2nd Printing Near Fine/Very Good DJ Light tip wear to white boards o/w Fine, purple cloth spine with silver lettering. Faint soil to page edges. Light wear to bright glossy dust jacket with tiny mended chips and tears.. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good DJ.
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New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. First US Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Good /Fair. A First Printing of the author's highly acclaimed novel with First Edition stated and with correct letter sequence BCDE on copyright page. In ivory boards with purple spine cloth and silver type(a little dulled). Corners still pretty sharp, though all dinged and/or split. Some soiling to board ends and foxing mostly to top page ends with a little to front and bottom as well. Previous owner's long gift inscription to top of ffep. Some light foxing to endpapers as well. Jacket is unclipped ($11.95) with moisture staining to both panels, and foxing to inside and flap edges. Chips at corners and spine ends with 3/4 inch tear to top of spine as well.
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The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
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New York City, NY & London, England: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1982. Second Printing in a first state dust jacket. Hardcover 8vo quarter bound with purple cloth spine and silver lettering, cream boards in an glossy illustrated dust jacket, 245 pp. Near fine, former owner inscription on front free end papers; otherwise, a clean, strong and very nice copy./Very good with some light wear and chipping to perimeter aspects of jacket.. Jacket design by Judith Kazdym Leeds. Alice Walker's double landmark of a masterpiece, recipient of both the Pulitzer and National Book Award in 1983. Here is a first edition, second printing in a first state dust jacket.
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