BANNED; with an introduction by Patricia Holt
San Francisco: aunt lute books, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 12mo (7 1/4" x 5 1/4"), gray cloth with red lettering on spine, Introduction by Patriicia Holt, archival mylar-protected decorative photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with images of Alice Walker on front and rear, xii + 105 pages. Laid in is a SIGNED photo postcard of much younger Alice Walker. Very Fine / Fine. Item #5999
ISBN: 9781879960473
Alice Walker (born 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist. She wrote the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple (1982), which won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Walker also wrote the novels Meridian (1976) and The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970), among other works.
BANNED prints two short stories and an excerpt from The Color Purple that had been removed from testing material used by the Board of Education of California. Related documents and letters have been printed in the Appendices. Patricia Holt's Intro summarizes the bowdlerization with clarity and humor.
SIGNED photo with book in SUPERIOR CONDITION! Dust jacket (unclipped) has a few traces of wear.
Price: $70.00