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WALKER, ALICE.
The Color
Purple.
8vo, publisher’s purple cloth-
backed boards, thin fade line at spine tips;
unclipped dust jacket, lightly toned, small
nicks to spine panel foot.
FIRST EDITION
,
FIRST PRINTING
,
SIGNED COPY
, with the
correct letter code “BCDE” on copyright
page.
NewYork: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
(1982)
[600/900]
WITH
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Another copy. 8vo, original wrappers,
partial split to rear joint. Uncorrected proof,
Signed by the author. Publisher’s promotional
slips laid-in. NY, 1982.
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WALKER, ALICE.
Once *
Revolutionary Petunias & Other
Poems.
Together, 2 volumes. 8vo, pub-
lisher’s cloth; dust jackets, first title with
light edgewear, second title price-clipped.
FIRST EDITIONS
,
NEATLY SIGNED AND
INSCRIBED BY WALKER
on the half-titles.
Walker’s first two books of poetry.
NewYork: Harcourt Brace, (1968); (1973)
[700/1,000]
WITH
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Revolutionary Petunias & Other
Poems. Original wrappers. First edition, Signed.
NY, 1973.
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WALLACE, DAVID FOSTER.
Infinite Jest.
Thick 8vo, publisher’s
printed wrappers.
UNCORRECTED ADVANCE
PROOF
,
SIGNED BY WALLACE
on front fly-
leaf. Special galley edition of Wallace’s
second, and most famous novel, that has
rapidly acquired the status of a modern
classic. Fine copy and increasingly difficult
to find as such.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1996
[800/1,200]
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