NMLP P-001183 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

The Color Purple

Alice Walker · Harcourt Brace Jovanovich · 1982

The first-issue dust jacket should retain its printed price on the front flap, shows only a single publisher address on the rear flap (later printings add a San Diego address), and has its rear panel headed 'You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down' with no mention of the Pulitzer Prize anywhere on the jacket

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-001183 for "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-001183, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).