Alice Walker — The Color Purple
London, The Woman's Press, 1986. First edition. Cloth. A fine example of the first UK hardcover edition of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize winning novel about the life of a young African American woman in rural Georgia in the early 1900s. The first UK hardcover edition, first impression. This work was initially published in the UK in paperback in 1983.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper, illustrated by Cathie Felstead.Alice Walker won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction for this work.The novel follows Celie, a poor African-American girl, who lives in rural Georgia in the early 1900s. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Dust wrapper exceptionally bright, with light edgewear to head of back strip and rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.
