Color Purple by Walker Alice, First Edition (89 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing and/or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition,1996, Scribner, Simon & Schuster Meditation on life, spirit and art, and a making of the film The Color Puple ten years later. Very Good/Very Good,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster Trade, 1996. Hard Cover. First Edition.Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.ISBN:0684814196 About filming of THE COLOR PURPLE and related/contemporaneous events; includes journal entries, correspondence, essays, and Walker's screenplay which was not used. Remainder Mark on bottom of book.

mass_market. Condition: Good. First Edition. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket. First Edition. 1st printing/1st edition, with full number line. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards and text also very good. DJ protected in Mylar wraps. A very nice copy! Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Scribner, 1996. Hardback First Printing of First Edition. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Fine Jacket, The book is composed of entries from Alice Walker's journals, correspondence and essays and articles that document the controversy in the African-American community about the release of the film The Color Purple. It also contains Walker's original screenplay for the film that was not used by Steven Spielberg, the producer, and has never been published. There are three new essays in which Walker looks back at what was taking place in her life at that time. Very clean and unmarked white half cloth binding, gilt titled, green boards. Nice fresh appearance. Upper edge of front panel slightly sunned; slight wear to lower edges of front panel. Former owner name on endpaper. 302 pages with index. 9.75 x 6.4 inches. 1996, Scribner, New York, New York, USA.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: good. 1st printing. 302p., illus. Entries from Walker's journals relating to making "The Color Purple" and the later controversy about this film. Very good condition; remainder mark on bottom edge. very good d.j.

VG in VG DJ. Walker's period of transition from recluse to public figure and a contemplation of the true significance of extraordinary gifts. Remainder dot on bottom edge. 1st ed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 245pp. Soft cover. title on front and spine. Very good++.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Very good hardcover with good dust jacket, slight wear to jacket. First printing.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. 1st printing from this publisher. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: NF. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED - Octavo. Dusky turquoise colored boards quarterbound in a white backstrip with shiny gilt lettering on the spine. Book has a very slight bumping at the tail of the spine and a single light spot on the rear cover. White endpapers. Signed by the author on the title page in black pen. Binding is straight and tight. Small black publisher's remainder dot on the lower edge of the textblock - pages are otherwise clean, white, and crisp. 302 pages. Promotional postcard for the event laid into the front endpapers. Dust Jacket - has a nearly unnoticable trace of rubbing at the extreme tips of a couple of the corners. Faint black spot on the inside of the jacket in the same place as that on the rear board. Not perfect, but still a very attractive copy, signed by Alice Walker. Signed by the Author.

First edition - First printing, a trade paperback original. Looks at Walker's life, and the influences on her work, especially her discovery of the novels of Zora Neale Hurston. While this focuses on Walker's Pulitzer Prize winning The Color Purple, it also discusses her work both before and after its publication. Bibliography, 121 pp. Very near fine in stapled red and white wrappers (some rubbing to the covers).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Appears to be an original play program. Full-color and in fine condition with no markings. Has a folded program insert with the photos of all the players with their short bios. 34 different black actors shown.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Full number line on the copyright page. Slight wear and soiling to the wraps. V3.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jennifer Hewitson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. First Edition, First Printing (Tenth Anniversary Edition). Includes a new Preface by the author. Hardcover is in near-fine condition (soiled on the top and bottom of the text block, slightly bumped on the top corner of the front cover and bumped on the bottom edge of the back cover). Dust jacket is in near-fine condition (slightly soiled on the front and back covers and minor edge wear). Brodart protected. 290 pages with black and white illustrations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. A fairly early printing of the author's highly acclaimed novel beginning with the letter F on copyright page. In light grey boards with purple spine cloth and silver type. Bottom corners dinged/split with small ding to top front corner. Horizontal crease to front board, some small stains to boards and crinkle to paper covering board at rear spine tape. Some wear to silver type on spine. Interior and page ends clean and binsing solid. Jacket is unclipped ($11.95) with long tears and a little paper loss to ends of front flap crease with tape over bottom tear, head of spine and bottom of rear panel. Shorter tears to spine ends and top of rear panel. Small chips at spine ends/corners, edgewear and some creasing. 6th Printing.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers with two spots. Laid into this copy is a printed letter from Warner Brothers promoting the use of the guide and the published novel in conjunction with the newly released movie. Uncommon.

Hard cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG, moderate wear to edges. 1st Norwegian edition, 1st printing. The book condition is Fine. The dust jacket is VG, moderate wear to edges. Signed by the author with no inscription 0.0.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Signed by author on bookplate adhered to front free endpaper with no inscription. "Autographed copy" sticker on front jacket panel, jacket flaps lightly soiled. 1996 Hard Cover. 302 pp. The personal memoirs of Alice Walker consider how fame, illness, betrayal, and the Pulitzer Prize have impacted her personal life, career, and evolution as an artist. Signed by author.

First printing. 8vo, pp. 300. Index. With several photographs. Paper over boards with cloth spine. About as new in dj.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Front flap creased.

First edition. First edition. Color illustrations throughout, (44) pp., invitation to the film's World Premier laid in. 1 vols. 4to. Large format illustrated book, likely distributed to members of the Motion Picture Academy, depicting the cast and producers of the Stephen Spielberg film. Although nominated for 11 Academy Awards, and considered the Best Picture of the year by many critics, the film took home no awards. The novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award (1983) and cemented Walker's place among American writers. Also laid in is a folding invitation to the World Premier for the film in New York City. Provenance: from the library of Walker's editor John Ferrone Purple wrappers with dye-cut silhouette of a woman in a rocking chair. Fine Color illustrations throughout, (44) pp., invitation to the film's World Premier laid in. 1 vols. 4to.

Condition: Very Good. VG Jacket in mylar, 1st printing thus Price clip, remainder mark.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. First Edition Thus. Hardback. 8vo. pp 257. Original publishers maroon cloth over card boards with butterfly cut-out design, lettered white on spine and maroon on front cover. Issued without dust jacket. ISBN: 0297858866 Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition Thus. Xii, 289 Pp. Maroon Cloth Spine, Beige Boards, Gilt. First Printing Of This 10Th Anniversary Edition With A New Preface By The Author. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket Priced $19.95.

First. 1982 First Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Pubs, NY, 1982; 1st edition, 7th printing (G); very fine condition with a fine dust jacket; Alice Walker; Literature.

Fine Unopened copy in publishers decorated cloth in decorated Slipcase. 1st edition, 1st issue. Illustrated by Lela Harris.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine UK 40th Anniversary Edition hardback - first printing thus in a fine unclipped dustjacket - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR via a 'Signed by the Author' page - Pictures available upon request. Signed by Author(s).