Piece by Cooper J California, Signed (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Y10. Signed by Author(s).

PAPERBACK. Condition: VG. 3RD PRINTING. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition/First Printing. This copy has been SIGNED by J. California Cooper on the half-title page! Her debut work - Alice Walker has said: "Her style is deceptively simple and direct, and the value of tears in which her characters reside is never so deep that a rich chuckle at a foolish person's foolishness cannot be heard." This is a copy of the first Anchor Books edition. Signed by Author(s).

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. First UK Paperback Edition/First Printi. This copy of the UK trade paperback issue has been SIGNED by J. California Cooper on the half-title page and by Alice Walker (who contributed the forward) on the title page! In this collection - her larger-than-life women struggle for love, money, happiness, and sometimes, revenge. Told with enormous warmth and humour, these twelve stories centre on the lives of black women and their men in the small-town southern states of America. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine in black wraps. ix + 124pages. First Printing. There is very light rubbing to the wraps and a previous owner's neatly-penned gift inscription is on the half-title page. Otherwise Fine: clean, bright and soundly bound. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. A very nice, collector's-quality copy of Cooper's first book. Includes a forword by Alice Walker. Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks of Books. 41-A. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very good plus. First printing. First edition of Cooper's first short story collection, with a foreword by Alice Walker - this copy inscribed by Walker to her editor on THE COLOR PURPLE, John Ferrone. J. California Cooper credits Walker for encouraging her transition from plays to short stories. Walker and her partner Robert Allen established the Wild Tree Press in 1984, and Walker notes in her foreword that it "could have been created especially for A PIECE OF MINE." 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original black pictorial wrappers. xvi, 124 pages. Inscribed by Walker on half-title: "To John + 'Johannes,' love, Alice[.]" Light wear to wrappers, small bump to spine edge. Tight.