BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 28 “I Think It Pisses God Off If You Walk By The Color Purple In A Field Somewhere And Don’t Notice It” 35WALKER, Alice. The Color Purple. New York and London, 1982. Octavo, original half purple cloth, dust jacket. $4500 First edition of Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, boldly signed by the author in purple. With this, her third novel, Alice Walker became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize. “Critics have both praised and attacked Walker’s use of black folk English to capture [protagonist] Celie’s perspective. Walker responded, ‘Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. And, amazingly, it has sustained us more securely than the arms of angels” (New York Public Library, Books of the Century, 135). Blockson 5026. Traces of rubbing to corners and spine lettering; slightly worn dust jacket with faint crease to front panel. A near-fine signed copy. “So We Beat On, Boats Against The Current, Borne Back Ceaselessly Into The Past” 36FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York, 1925. Octavo, original blue-green cloth, custom clamshell box. $10,500 First edition of this landmark of 20th-century fiction. Noted critic Cyril Connolly called Gatsby one of the half-dozen best American novels: “Gatsby remains a prose poem of delight and sadness which has by now introduced two generations to the romance of America, as Huckleberry Finn and Leaves of Grass introduced those before it” (48). First printing, with “sick in tired” on page 205 and all other first issue points. Without extremely rare original dust jacket. Bruccoli A11.1.a. Interior clean but mildly toned, cloth fresh and crisp with a bit of dulling to spine gilt, only most minor edge-wear. A near-fine copy.
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