Search Results: the color purple by alice walker

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1982. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0151191530 . Very Good+ in a Fine dust jacket. Small owner inscription on half title page. Faint spotting on top/side text block edges. ; Signed by author on FEP. ; 8.4 X 5.8 X 1.1 inches; 245 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. 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.. Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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 .

First Edition/Early Printing in the 2nd state jacket with the $12.95 price to the front flap; A Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket. SIGNED by the author directly to the title page. An outstanding copy of this seminal novel, winner of multiple awards and basis for the Spielberg movie; a Classic of 20th Century Literature. This copy is in fine condition with only slight rubbing to the lower board edges; housed in a crisp and bright near fine dust jacket that shows only mild rubbing and creasing near the spine head and some light foxing to the panel edges and flaps, else fine. A highly presentable and collectible copy; uncommon flat signed by Ms. Walker. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship in a sturdy box.

London: The Women's Press, 1986. A first edition, first printing published by The Women's Press in 1986. A near fine book without inscriptions - SIGNED by the Author on the title page in a very good+ unclipped wrapper with some wear to the corners and a trifle pushed to spine tips. A genuinely scarce signed edition of the the Author's masterpiece

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. L 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

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.