Original Deluxe Promotional Book for the Steven Spielberg Film, The Color Purple, from the Novel by Alice Walker

Los Angeles: Warner Brothers, 1985. First Edition. Paperbound, 10” x 10”. Die-cut stiff purple wrappers showing Celie (Whoopie Goldberg) in silhouette, sitting in a rocking chair at a lace-curtained window, reading a letter, with a lovely sunset in the background. Fine in printed wrappers. Specially printed in a small number for distribution to members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences in consideration for nominations of the film The Color Purple based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize Winning novel: Best Picture, Best Actress (Whoopie (truncated) Goldberg), Best Actor (Danny Glover), Best Supporting Actress (Oprah Winfrey), Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Menno Meyjes), and others. Generously illustrated with glossy color photographs by Gordon Parks and John Shannon. (Inventory #: 15610J)