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The Color Purple.
by WALKER, Alice
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers,, 1982. The more I wonder, the more I love First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Charles, Peace & Peoplehood, Alice Walker, 7-9-82". The same page has a touching gift inscription by the recipient, "To Meg, for Thanksgiving 1994, by a friend of mine for whom Africa was her real home, Grandpa". Walker's epistolary novel won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1983. It was adapted into a film in 1985, a stage musical in 2005, and a subsequent musical film in 2023. Octavo. Original purple quarter cloth, spine lettered in silver. With dust jacket. Spine ends lightly sunned, faint foxing to top edge; a few tiny marks to unclipped jacket, small nicks and creases to extremities, short closed tear to head of rear panel: a near-fine copy in near-fine jacket.
Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 171844
- Title
- The Color Purple.
- Author
- WALKER, Alice
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers,
- Date Published
- 1982
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Octavo
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- Spine
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