Sorting these covers by decade
The Color Purple by decade
Alice Walker
56 covers from 73 printings with a known year, 2020s back to 1970s
2020s
7 covers · 7 publishers, Penguin and Folio Society among them · 3 languages
2010s
7 covers · 2 of 7 printings say paperback · 6 publishers, Phoenix and Turtleback among them · 2 languages
2000s
13 covers · 8 of 14 printings say paperback · 11 publishers, Harcourt, Inc. and José Olympio among them · 4 languages
1990s
8 covers · 2 of 8 printings say paperback · 8 publishers, Rowohlt and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich among them · 3 languages
1980s
19 covers · 17 of 31 printings say paperback · 20 publishers, Washington Square Press and Pocket Books among them · 7 languages
1970s
2 covers · 6 of 18 printings say paperback · 13 publishers, Orion Publishing Group, Limited and Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. among them
Covers from Open Library, each in the decade of the earliest printing that carries it. What the catalogues never scanned is missing here too. See the whole wall.
