Color Purple by Alice Walker, Signed (28 results)

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.

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.

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).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed to tip in page. Brand new copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by author on a loosely laid in page in black pen, signature only. First edition stated with A B C D E center flush. Tenth anniversary edition with a new preface by the author. 5 3/4 x 9 1/2 Book; binding tight, boards straight and clean; mild bump to top edge with name and 1992 date to each paste down in black pen else text free of marks, appears barely read. Dust jacket ($19.95) has mild bumping to top spine. Color bright and sharp. Under archival quality mylar cover. Illustrated. Photos upon request. Packed well and shipped in a sturdy box. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition, Special Edition. 1st edition / 1st printing thus. 40th anniversary edition signed by author to tipped in signature page. Signed by the author sticker to cover. Signed by Author(s).

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

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. The SIGNED 40th Anniversary Special Edition. Specially signed by Alice Walker to the publisher's tipped in "signed by the author" page. Walker's "indelibly affecting" (New York Times) epistolary novel has become a cultural touchstone in modern literature, and this special edition is one likely to remain appealing. Complete with its purple ribbon marker, the cover design is intended to pay homage to the original US hardback. The author became the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with her novel, which also won the National Book Award. The book, of course, in turn became a major 1985 film, directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover & Oprah Winfrey. A Very Fine copy in purple boards with mauve endpapers, and Very Fine dust-wrapper. Offered by D B WATERS RARE BOOKS: Professional, full-time booksellers of fine, select 1st editions, established in 1998. As befits a rare book, all dust-wrappers are housed within transparent, removable protectors. All our stock is fully guaranteed as authentic, a sample of which is presented here on this website. As long-established specialist sellers, we never stock any first edition that is devalued by serious flaws such as price-clipping, dedications, remainder dots, or owner markings, etc. A small, boutique business with an enviable client base. Managed by David, a holder of a Masters degree in Modern Fiction from the UEA, and published author by Nightjar Press. Contact us for friendly assistance in building your collection of modern highlights. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 5th or later Edition. Near fine 25th printing inscribed by Alice Walker on the title page, and by Whoopi Goldberg on the inside of the front cover, who played Celie in the 1985 film adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg. Binding square and tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Some light wear to front cover. Some wear to spine ends, edges. A unique copy inscribed by Alice Walker and Whoopi Goldberg. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 6th printing. 245p. Original white boards backed in purple cloth. dj. 22 cm. Jacket has moderate scuffing and wear. Worn Pulizer Prize sticker on front panel of jacket. Purple cloth slightly faded along top and bottom edges. Portion of front endpaper lightly browned where a slip or clipping must have been. SIGNED on title-page by Walker.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Special Edition. 1992 - Tenth Anniversary Edition. Signed by author. Octavo. Xii, 290pp. Illustrated. Publisher's binding, in the dust jacket. Clean and bright. With Waterstones 'signed first edition' wrap-around and the original price sticker on rear. A hint of creasing at the head and tail of the spine. Otherwise a 'Fine' copy. A classic of American contemporary literature. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. Book Club Edition. SIGNED - Octavo. Black boards and spine with shiny gilt lettering on the spine. Book has light bumping at the head and tail of the spine. White endpapers. Signed by the author on the half title page in black pen. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 290 pages. Dust Jacket - has some very faint wrinkling at the head and tail of the spine around the corners, and two closed tears in the lower edge of the rear cover, one about 1/4" deep and the shorter 1/8" deep. Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the basis for the 1985 Stephen Spielberg film of the same title. Signed by the Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine Book & Jacket, Winner National Book Award & Pulitzer Prize, Signed, First Edition UK First Print in protective cover. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Single sheet, measuring 8" x 10", consisting of a photographically reproduced image of an oil lamp, quill pen, and a brief passage from *The Color Purple*. The broadside is housed in a brown leatherette silk-lined folder, stamped in gold. With a colophon leaf in a paper folder laid in, all housed in an unprinted envelope. Fine. One of 49 copies Signed by Alice Walker in gold ink and numbered in white over a Parchment Gallery Graphics blindstamp. The colophon states: "Originally intended for an edition of 99 pieces (as stated on the [printed] image) only 49 copies and one Printer's Proof were issued for commercial purposes." An attractive publication, published in a remarkably small limitation. *OCLC* locates three copies (UC Berkeley, Delaware, Georgia).

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Fourth Impression. Bound in purple cloth over white boards. Endpapers professionally restored and book tightened. (slight bumping to one corner). Dust jacket is in great condition, just shows a hint of rubbing to bottom edge. A tight, clean copy of the fourth impression of the first edition (with "DE" on the bottom line of the copyright page), in the exact same format and with the same dust jacket as the first impression. Won the Pulitzer Prize and was the basis for the Steven Spielberg movie of the same name. In the same format as the first edition and also has the first state dust jacket. Inscribed and signed on a tipped in page, "For Joan - Peace and Sisterhood" and dated in the year of publication. 244 pp. Inscribed and Signed.

First British hardcover edition. First British hardcover edition. Signed by Alice Walker on the page following the front free endpaper [vi], 245, [5] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with silver spine lettering. Fine, with pages a bit age-toned, in Fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed.

First edition, early printing of Walker's third novel, which made her the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Judith Kazdym Leeds. With a promotional brochure for the 1985 film directed by Steven Spielberg, signed by Alice Walker. [A Steven Spielberg Film: The Color Purple: Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize Winning Story. Warner Bros. Inc.: 1985]. Oblong octavo, original purple wrappers, illustrated with color photographs from the film. In fine condition. A nice pairing. Her third novel, The Color Purple won Alice Walker the 1983 Pulitzer Prize, making her the first African-American woman to win one. "While Walker's first two novels end in the promise of good, The Color Purple ends in happiness, reunion and celebration. Walker has said that she took her great-grandmother's life, which included rape and childbearing at age 11, and gave it a happy ending. Once again she had begun with one of her ancestors' stories, completing and transmuting it through her art" (African American Writers, 351). "Critics have both praised and attacked Walker's use of black folk English to capture [protagonist] Celie's perspective. Walker responded, 'Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. And, amazingly, it has sustained us more securely than the arms of angels'" (New York Public Library, Books of the Century, 135). It is the basis for the 1985 Steven Spielberg film starring Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Desreta Jackson, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey (in her film debut), Rae Dawn Chong, Willard Pugh, and Adolph Caesar in one of his final film roles. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times awarded the film four stars, calling it "the year's best film.".

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Signed with her beautiful earlier signature on a tipped in bookplate on the front free endpaper--visible in photo. First printing of the first edition--copyright page is visible in photo. Very near fine book in a very near fine jacket--visible in photos. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 245pp.; HB quarter-bound; white w/purple&silver; slight rub w/lt.wear on edges; lt.soil,foredge; clean,tight pgs. DJ palegray w/purple-pic.cover; slight rub. Walker's classic of two sisters in a period between the World Wars. laid in signed title page from the paperback editiion. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. New York. 1982. 245 pages. First edition, first printing. First edition statement present, alongside B C D E letter-line. Loosely laid-in is an adhesive-backed signed bookplate by Alice Walker. Original first issue DJ with $11.95 price intact on flap AND only one address on rear DJ flap. Later DJs added a San Diego address that is not preset on first printing DJs. . Rear of DJ states YOU CANT KEEP A GOOD WOMAN DOWN at the top. There is no mention of the Pulitzer Prize anywhere on the DJ. As for the book, it is tight and clean. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Endpapers are bright and clean. Cream paper-covered boards quarterbound in purple cloth; stamped in silver. Faint, light toning along top edge of panel. Faint discoloration along bottom front edge. DJ is pristine; in fine condition. first edition, first printing in first state DJ; with a signed bookplate laid-in. VG+/Fine. Signed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. first. First edition, as stated on copyright page. Signed by author on partial title page from another book, laid-in. Book very good, some rubbing to edges, bumped lower corners, rear free end paper missing a piece, a couple of clear stickers and remnant of removal to rear paste-down. Dust jacket very good, some wear and tear along edges, front flap partially detached. Comes in supplied slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing.This copy is SIGNED by Alice Walker on a bookplate laid into the book. This original dustjacket is rich in color with minor wear to the edges.The book is bound in the publisher's cloth and is in great shape. The binding with NO cocking or leaning. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderfull copy SIGNED by the author. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. A Fine copy of the book in like dust jacket. Light foxing to the top-edge of the text block. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication: "To Jim Wilson Peace and Peoplehood, Alice Walker June 1982." Alice Walker's National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning novel, marking the first time an African American woman would those awards for Fiction. The story is told through the eyes of Celie, a poverty stricken black girl living in 1900s Georgia, as we follow her over a twenty year period. The Color Purple would go on to be adapted into an eleven Academy Award nominated film, starring Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, and Oprah Winfrey, and directed by Stephen Spielberg. "Without doubt, Alice Walker's latest novel is her most impressive." (Contemporary New York Times Review). Fine in Fine dust jacket.

First Edition, First Printing. First edition, first printing. First edition BCDE on copyright page. Signed by author on a tipped in page from a signed limited edition therefore the authenticity is guaranteed. Measuring approximately 8.75" x 5.75" with 245 numbered pages. This book is in very good condition. Moderate bumping and sunning to spine. Moderate staining to both boards and edges of textblock. Interior pages are bright and clean. Dust jacket is in good condition. Moderate chipping to both ends fos pine and around edges of jacket. Original 11.95 price on front flap. The novel has been the target of censors numerous times, and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000-2010 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit content, particularly in terms of violence. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory # (O8-65).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing with the words "First edition" printed on the copyright page followed by the publisher's code "BCDE" identifying the First Issue. This copy is SIGNED by Alice Walker on tipped in page. This First Issue dustjacket is vibrant in color with NO chips or tears. The book is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's cloth and is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy SIGNED by the author. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Alice Walker (1982) 'The Color Purple', US first edition, first printing, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Signed and inscribed by the author in the year of publication: "For Nan Bowe, | Peace + Sisterhood, | Alice Walker | 6-27-82". A beautiful inscription with Walker's full signature before the author started to sign with an illegible squiggle. All first issue points present: the B C D E lettercode on the copyright page as called for. Also, first issue dust jacket with the correct New York only address on the rear flap. Condition: a very good book in like dust jacket. There are no previous owner's names, no bookplates and no stamps. Light shelf wear including light rubbing of the edges from sliding in and out of the shelf. Light foxing to the front page block as shown. Small faint stain on the rear board, otherwise clean. The letering on the purple quarter bound cloth spine in NOT rubbed out. The first issue dust jacket is NOT price clipped showing the correct USD 11.95 price. Light edge wear to the top with a small tear just above the 'T' of the first title line on the front panel. NO restorations and NO tape repairs. A landmark book of American 20th century literature which was accoladed with the Pulitzer Prize making Walker the first black woman to win the prize as well as with the American National Book Award for Fiction in 1983. The story was adapted by director Steven Spielberg into a 1985 film earning eleven Academy Award nominations. First and Fine. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Alice Walker on the half title page. Bound in publisher's original paper-covered boards over purple spine cloth lettered in silver. Very Good+ with slight lean to binding and light rubbing to silver lettering on spine, toning at edges, and faint slit to front cover. Light soiling and wear. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with corresponding slit to front panel, light general wear. A great copy of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning novel. Later adapted into the 1985 Academy Award nominated film by Steven Spielberg starring Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg.