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The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0704350165
- ISBN 13
- 9780704350168
- Seller
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Kington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
This is the first hardcover printing (1986) issued by the Woman's Press, a feminist publishing house of London. A powerful novel in the recognition of identity and feminist literature. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1963 and the basis for the Stephen Spielberg film.The book is fine except for a hint of aging to the topedge of the bookblock. Otherwise, clean, square and sharp, as is the 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
- Scorpion Press
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 113
- Title
- The Color Purple
- Author
- Alice Walker
- Format/Binding
- Blue cloth and silvert titles
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First hardcover, first printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0704350165
- ISBN 13
- 9780704350168
- Publisher
- The Woman's Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1086
- Pages
- 245
- Size
- 9 1/2" x 6 1/2"
- Keywords
- Black Literature, Feminism, American Lit
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About the Seller
Scorpion Press
Biblio member since 2019
Kington, Herefordshire
About Scorpion Press
Bookseller in the late 1980's selling via catalogues and fairs. Then migrated to publishing special editions as Scorpion Press. Over 100 titles published including major crime and mystery authors: Dick Francis, Colin Dexter, Ruth Rendell, Ian Rankin, Bernard Cornwell, Len Deighton. Now concentrating on leather rebindings in runs of twelve copies - signed on an author profile page.
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