ALICE WALKER. — The Color Purple. A novel.

The Women's Press Ltd., London, 1st Edition, The first UK casebound edition. 8vo. 245pp. Black cloth lettered in silver at the spine. A narrow strip of very light browning to a single preliminary and concluding leaf, else a fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, marred only by a touch of chafing to the head of the spine panel. The author's celebrated third novel, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It was first published in the US in 1982; a UK paperback edition followed a year later but somewhat scandalously it was not issued in the UK in casebound format until this 1986 edition. Uncommon., Near Fine, Near Fine