Description
First edition, later printing of The Color Purple: A Novel by Alice Walker, signed by Oprah Winfrey.
Octavo, [8], 245pp, [3]. Cream hardcover, title in silver on purple cloth spine. A later printing, with publisher’s letter line “JKLM” listed. Solid text block, slight bow to covers, light wear to head and tail of spine, near fine. In the publisher’s dust jacket, price-clipped, short closed tear to rear panel, a very good example.
Signed on the front free endpaper by Oprah Winfrey.
Alice Walker (b. 1944) is the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for this, her third novel. The Color Purple also received the National Book Award for Fiction. Although controversial and appearing on the American Library Association’s list of Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books: 2010-2019, The Color Purple is still seen today as an incredibly influential novel, stretching into other mediums on screen and on stage.
Oprah Winfrey (b. 1954) starred as Sofia in Steven Spielberg’s 1985 film adaptation of The Color Purple. Winfrey also produced the Broadway musical adaptation, which ran from 2005 to 2008 and 2015 to 2017.
