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The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- 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.
- ISBN 10
- 0151191530
- ISBN 13
- 9780151191536
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
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.
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
- Better Read Than Dead
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 358
- Title
- The Color Purple
- Author
- Alice Walker
- Illustrator
- Jacket design by Judith Kazdym Leeds
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover 8vo quarter bound with purple cloth spine and silver lettering, cream boards in an glossy illustrated dust jacket, 245
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine, former owner inscription on front free end papers; otherwise, a clean, strong and very nice copy.
- Jacket Condition
- Very good with some light wear and chipping to perimeter aspects of jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Printing in a first state dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0151191530
- ISBN 13
- 9780151191536
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York City, NY & London, England
- Date Published
- 1982
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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