The Color Purple (Inscribed to an author) Walker, Alice BIPOC,Gift Ideas,Modern Firsts,Signed Books,Women

Warmly inscribed by Walker on the front free endpaper to her friend, the feminist playwright and novelist Dorothy Bryant, and Bryant's husband: "To Dorothy Bryant - Peace + Sisterhood + to Bob - Alice Walker Jan 27, 1982." Walker described Bryant's novel The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You as "one of my favorite books in all the world" (Feminist Writers, p. 77). A Very Good+ copy in like dust jacket. Publisher's quarter purple cloth over cream-colored boards. A bit of toning to top and bottom edges of boards. Unclipped first issue dust jacket ($11.95 price, without publisher's San Diego address to back flap) with some chipping to edges and rubbing to folds. Still a very nice copy with an exceptional inscription to a friend and fellow author. Alice Walker s National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning novel, marking the first time a Black woman would win those awards for Fiction. The story is told through the eyes of Celie, a poverty-stricken Black girl living in 1900s Georgia, as the reader follows her over a twenty-year period. The Color Purple would go on to be adapted into an 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). Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers, p. 77. Very Good + in Very Good + dust jacket.