First uk hardcover edition (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. A well written novel set in the 18th Century, in England and Italy. The slow working of a strange revenge. Clean first printing of the first edition hardback. The book is without any owner marks, it is safe within a protected jacket that is not price clipped. A few minor chippings to the edges of the jacket. Language: eng.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: near fine. First U.K. Hardcover Edition. Octavo, [6], 245pp, [5]. Black hardcover, title in silver on spine. Stated "This hardcover edition first published 1986" on copyright page. Solid text block, faint foxing along edges, near fine condition. In the publisher's dust jacket, £9.95 retail price on front flap, shelf worn, near fine. Jacket artwork by Cathie Felstead. 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. The first U.K. hardcover edition of The Color Purple by Alice Walker, published in 1986. (illustratore).…