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Lot 15
Sale 1023 - The Library of Jack Charles Davis, Sold to Support Charitable Institutions
May 3, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$1,375
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Lot Description
[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.