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  • Walker, Alice
    THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. dj. Hardcover - Her first novel after the award-winning 'The Color Purple' - and Miss Celie and Miss Shug make brief appearances in this story. ISBN: 0-15-1885338.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket ( a tight copy, upper corner bumped with a chip missing from dj.)

    Book ID: 25146
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  • THE SAME RIVER TWICE. Honoring the Difficult. by Walker, Alice.
    Walker, Alice.
    THE SAME RIVER TWICE. Honoring the Difficult.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - A book Walker spent 10 years in the writing, this is perhaps her most personal book yet. The story of the making of the film "Color Purple" and of the changes in her life. ISBN: 0-684-814196.

    Condition: Very near fine in near fine dust jacket (appears unread, but with a remainder dot, dj is partially price-clipped.)

    Book ID: 25147
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  • Walker, Alice
    THE COLOR PURPLE.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c. 1982. ISBN: 0-671-526022.

    Condition: Very good+ (light creasing to spine)

    Book ID: 25148
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  • Walker, Alice.
    THE SAME RIVER TWICE. Honoring the Difficult.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book Walker spent 10 years in the writing, this is perhaps her most personal book yet. The story of the making of the film "Color Purple" and of the changes in her life. SIGNED by Walker on the half title page. ISBN: 0-684-814196.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 26338
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  • Walker, Alice
    THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR

    Edition: First paperback printing.

    New York: Pocket Books, 1990. Her first novel after the award-winning 'The Color Purple' - and Miss Celie and Miss Shug make brief appearances in this story. ISBN: 0-671-683993.

    Condition: Very good+.

    Book ID: 26529
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  • Walker, Alice
    LIVING BY THE WORD, Selected Writings 1973-1987

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short prose pieces, some essays about her travels in China, Jamaica and elsewhere; others are short journal entries. ISBN: 0-15-1529000.

    Condition: Good only in a good dustjacket (spine slant, gift inscription, light edgewear to dj.)

    Book ID: 30720
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  • Walker, Alice.
    POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of Tashi, a tribal African woman who lives much of her adult life In North America. Although not a sequel to "The Color Purple" or "The Temple of my Familiar," Tashi was a barely glimpsed character there. Combining fact and fiction, this deals with the controversial issue of female genital mutilation and its effect on women. ISBN: 0-15-17315217.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.

    Book ID: 32164
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  • BY THE LIGHT OF MY FATHER'S SMILE. by Walker, Alice.
    Walker, Alice.
    BY THE LIGHT OF MY FATHER'S SMILE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel, her first in six years,a book which Walker describes as a "celebration of sexuality." 222 pp. ISBN: 0-375-501525.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (price-clipped.)

    Book ID: 37566
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  • THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR by Walker, Alice
    Walker, Alice
    THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her first novel after the award-winning 'The Color Purple' - and Miss Celie and Miss Shug make brief appearances in this story. 416 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1885338.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 39160
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  • Walker, Alice.
    MERIDIAN.

    Edition: First thus- a pocket paperback.

    New York: Pocket Books, (1986.). Walker's second novel, originally published in 1976. the story of a young woman, a high school drop out with an absent husband and a child, who begins to understand her black heritage when she volunteers to return to the South as a civil rights worker. 220 pp. ISBN: 0-671-472569.

    Condition: Very good (toning to the pages, inside covers.)

    Book ID: 41547
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  • Walker, Alice.
    MERIDIAN.

    Edition: First thus- a pocket paperback.

    New York: Pocket Books, (1986.). Walker's second novel, originally published in 1976. the story of a young woman, a high school drop out with an absent husband and a child, who begins to understand her black heritage when she volunteers to return to the South as a civil rights worker. 220 pp. ISBN: 0-671-472569.

    Condition: Good only (creases on spine, toning to the pages, inside covers.)

    Book ID: 43094
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  • BY THE LIGHT OF MY FATHER'S SMILE. by Walker, Alice.
    Walker, Alice.
    BY THE LIGHT OF MY FATHER'S SMILE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel, her first in six years. SIGNED on the title page. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-375-501525.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 45811
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  • POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY. by Walker, Alice.
    Walker, Alice.
    POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of Tashi, a tribal African woman who lives much of her adult life In North America. Although not a sequel to "The Color Purple" or "The Temple of my Familiar," Tashi was a barely glimpsed character there. Combining fact and fiction, this deals with the controversial issue of female genital mutilation and its effect on women. ISBN: 0-15-17315217.

    Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (initials and date on title page.)

    Book ID: 45835
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  • POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY. by Walker, Alice.
    Walker, Alice.
    POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of Tashi, a tribal African woman who lives much of her adult life In North America. Although not a sequel to "The Color Purple" or "The Temple of my Familiar," Tashi was a barely glimpsed character there. Combining fact and fiction, this deals with the controversial issue of female genital mutilation and its effect on women. 286 pp. ISBN: 0-15-17315217.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 49233
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  • LIVING BY THE WORD, Selected Writings 1973-1987 by Walker, Alice
    Walker, Alice
    LIVING BY THE WORD, Selected Writings 1973-1987

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1989.). A collection of short prose pieces, some essays about her travels in China, Jamaica and elsewhere; others are short journal entries. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-15-652865-7.

    Condition: Very good+ in glossy wrappers.

    Book ID: 57036
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  • BY THE LIGHT OF MY FATHER'S SMILE. by Walker, Alice.
    Walker, Alice.
    BY THE LIGHT OF MY FATHER'S SMILE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel, her first in six years. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-375-501525.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 58235
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  • THE SAME RIVER TWICE. Honoring the Difficult. by Walker, Alice.
    Walker, Alice.
    THE SAME RIVER TWICE. Honoring the Difficult.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - A book Walker spent 10 years in the writing, this is perhaps her most personal book yet. The story of the making of the film "Color Purple" and of the changes in her life. ISBN: 0-684-814196.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 74854
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  • ANYTHING WE LOVE CAN BE SAVED: A Writer's Activism. by Walker, Alice
    Walker, Alice
    ANYTHING WE LOVE CAN BE SAVED: A Writer's Activism.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays on a variety of topics ranging from writing and writers, including Zora Neale Hurston and Audre Lorde, to the musical group Sweet Honey , her daughters and dreadlocks. 221 pp. ISBN: 0-679-455841.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 79462
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  • ALICE WALKER'S THE COLOR PURPLE and Other Works: A Critical Commentary. (Monarch notes) by [Walker, Alice] Christian, Barbara.
    [Walker, Alice] Christian, Barbara.
    ALICE WALKER'S THE COLOR PURPLE and Other Works: A Critical Commentary. (Monarch notes)

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    New York: Monarch Press / Simon & Schuster, (1987). First edition - Looks at Walker's life, and the influences on her work, especially her discovery of the novels of Zora Neale Hurston. While this focuses on Walker's Pulitzer Prize winning The Color Purple, it also discusses her work both before and after its publication. Bibliography, 121 pp. ISBN: 0-671648616.

    Condition: Very near fine in stapled red and white wrappers (some rubbing to the covers)

    Book ID: 79241
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  • Walker, Alice (introduction by Patricia Holt.)
    BANNED

    Edition: First printing.

    San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - A small book printed by a small San Francisco press - it contains 2 of Walker's stories ("Roselily" and "Am I Blue) and an excerpt from "The Color Purple" and a discussion of how frequently attempts have been made to censor Walker's works. ISBN: 1-879960478.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 26097
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  • DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAINTOP: Black Women's Novels in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement, 1966-1989. by Walker, Melissa.
    Walker, Melissa.
    DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAINTOP: Black Women's Novels in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement, 1966-1989.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, (1991.). Discusses the novels of Margaret Walker, Sherley Anne Williams, Toni Morrison, Louise Meriweather, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker and more in the context of the Civil Rights movements, its hopes and its achievements. Bibliography of primary works, notes, index. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-300-054327.

    Condition: Fine (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 48037
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  • BLACK WHITE AND JEWISH: Autobiography of a Shifting Shelf. by Walker, Rebecca.
    Walker, Rebecca.
    BLACK WHITE AND JEWISH: Autobiography of a Shifting Shelf.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Riverhead Books, 2001. First edition - By the daughter of Alice Walker, her first book, an exploration of growing up bi-racial and multi-cultural in the US.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 17318
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  • BLACK WHITE AND JEWISH: Autobiography of a Shifting Shelf. by Walker, Rebecca.
    Walker, Rebecca.
    BLACK WHITE AND JEWISH: Autobiography of a Shifting Shelf.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Riverhead Books, 2001. SIGNED first edition - By the daughter of Alice Walker, her first book, an exploration of growing up bi-racial and multi-cultural in the US. INSCRIBED on the title page with a drawing of a flower.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 17319
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  • BLACK WHITE AND JEWISH: Autobiography of a Shifting Shelf. by Walker, Rebecca.
    Walker, Rebecca.
    BLACK WHITE AND JEWISH: Autobiography of a Shifting Shelf.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Riverhead Books, 2001. SIGNED first edition - By the daughter of Alice Walker, her first book, an exploration of growing up bi-racial and multi-cultural in the US. SIGNED on the title page with a drawing of a flower.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 17426
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  • BLACK WHITE AND JEWISH: Autobiography of a Shifting Shelf. by Walker, Rebecca.
    Walker, Rebecca.
    BLACK WHITE AND JEWISH: Autobiography of a Shifting Shelf.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Riverhead Books, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - By the daughter of Alice Walker, her first book, an exploration of growing up bi-racial and multi-cultural in the US. ISBN: 1-57322-1694.

    Condition: Very good in near fine dust jacket (spine slant.)

    Book ID: 18690
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  • THE QUEER GIRL IS GOING TO BE OKAY. by Walls, Dale.
    Walls, Dale.
    THE QUEER GIRL IS GOING TO BE OKAY.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Levine Querido, (2023). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, a young adult novel of friendship and girlhood set in Houston, Texas. SIGNED on the half title page. 252 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 89218
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  • TROPIC DEATH. by Walrond, Eric.
    Walrond, Eric.
    TROPIC DEATH.

    Edition: 2nd printing (just one month after the first)

    New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. Hardcover - Ten powerful short stories of Afro-Caribbean life, set in the West Indies, Panama, and the Central American isthmus. An uncommon book (in any original edition) by this Harlem Renaissance writer who was born in Guyana. Although DuBois praised this book for its significance - "Here is a book of ten stories of death, which, with impressionistic pen and little plot, show forth with singular vividness the life of black laborers of the West Indies. There is superstition, unusual dialect, singular economic glimpses; but above all, there is truth and human sympathy" he also called it "hard reading." 282 pp.

    Condition: Fair condition only in dark brown cloth with gold lettering, black and gold illustrated endpapers (front hinge starting, several leaves were carelessly cut open, scattered foxing mostly in margins and some rubbing and shelfwear to the boards - but still a very readable copy of an important book .)

    Book ID: 87966
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  • MISSISSIPPI CHALLENGE. by Walter, Mildred Pitts.
    Walter, Mildred Pitts.
    MISSISSIPPI CHALLENGE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Bradbury Press, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - The history of African Americans in Mississippi told by this award-winning author in a major, two-part work of nonfiction - the first covering the period through slavery, reconstruction and the Jim Crow era, the second focusing on the civil rights era, and the drive for voter registration. Whenever possible, the story is told in the words of the participants. Illustrated throughout with historic photographs, map of Mississippi. Ssource notes, bibliography, index, xv, 205 pp. ISBN: 0-02-7923010.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 58208
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  • Walton, Anthony.
    MISSISSIPPI: An American Journey.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - African American writer's first book - a combination of travel writing, memoir and history. ISBN: 0-679-446001.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (remainder dot.)

    Book ID: 29074
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  • KINSHIP: A Family's Journey in Africa and America. by Wamba, Philippe.
    Wamba, Philippe.
    KINSHIP: A Family's Journey in Africa and America.

    Edition: First printing

    New York: Dutton (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book by this journalist, who with a bicultural heritage - he was born of an African American mother and Congolese father and reared in California, Boston, Tanzania, and the Congo - which offers an "evenhanded and encyclopedic examination of the facts and fictions that have grown on both sides of the Atlantic." Notes, bibliography, index. xiv, 384 pp. ISBN: 0-525-943870.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 85927
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