Original Deluxe Promotional Book for the Steven Spielberg Film, The Color Purple, from the Novel by Alice Walker
first edition
1985 · Los Angeles
by SPIELBERG, STEVEN, WHOOPI GOLDBERG, &
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. Generously illustrated with glossy color photographs by Gordon Parks and John Shannon. 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 (truncated)