The first edition of this Pulitzer Prize winner was published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1982. It was 245 pages long, and the original retail price was $11.95. The first edition identification points are as follows: First edition states "First Edition" and the letter code "BCDE" on copyright page. Purple cloth-backed boards.
The Color Purple book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award.
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 | Picture of the 1982 first edition dust jacket for The Color Purple. |  | |  | |  | |  | On the first printing dust jacket, the bottom of the back flap does not have the San Diego address of the publisher. That address was added to later printings.
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