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[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. WALKER, Alice (b. 1944). The Color Purple. New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. FIRST EDITION, ADVANCE REVIEW COPY.
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[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. WALKER, Alice (b. 1944). The Color Purple. New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.
8vo. Original purple cloth-backed boards; in unrestored unclipped pictorial dust jacket (small scuff to spine).
FIRST EDITION, ADVANCE REVIEW COPY of Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. With publisher's review copy sheet, photocopy of the 14 May 1982 Publisher's Weekly review, and a copy of Walker's author portrait taken by L.A. Hyder laid in.