In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1973).

Price: $800.00

Hardcover. First edition. Some spotting on the bottom page edges else near fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear. Inscribed by the author on the half-title. Walker has crossed out “& Trouble” on the half-title, leaving the printed “In Love,” and followed it with “for my sister Maryann to celebrate her graduation! And her birthday! And her enjoyment of Cambridge! love, as always, Alice. Jackson - Nov. 3, 1973." This is the author’s first book of short stories, and the winner of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award. A nice inscription.

Item #418451
ISBN: 0151444056

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Item #418451 In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women. Alice WALKER.
In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women

Alice Walker
birth name: Alice Malsenior Walker
born: 2/9/1944

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Biography

American writer whose novels, short stories, and poems were noted for their insightful treatment of black American culture. Her novels focused particularly on women, most notably The Color Purple (1982; film, 1985), which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1983. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

Collecting tips:

Everyone knows the author's 1982 novel The Color Purple, but not everyone knows that the first issue jacket has only one address for the publisher on the rear flap -- later issues have two. Four of her five earliest books are very uncommon: two books of poetry, her first, Once, (1968), and Revolutionary Petunias, (1972); a collection of stories, In Love and Trouble: Stories for Black Women , (1973); and a children's book, Langston Hughes, American Poet, (1974). All of them are expensive in fine condition.

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