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Title: The Loves of Lady Purple

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Title: The Loves of Lady Purple Title Record # 78567
Author: Angela Carter
Date: 1974-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Synopsis: An Asiatic Professor travels west across Europe performing a marionette show. The tragic tale of Lady Purple; orphan, murderer of her foster parents, prostitute. As the years have gone by he has grown evermore frail, but the puppet's movements have grow more fluid. She finally becomes real, feeding on his blood and burning the body she leaves to find a brothel, for she can only be what he has made her. (Wikipedia)
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Year Language Title
1989
  • Translated by Nataša Đukić
Serbian Ljubav purpurne dame [as by Ejndžela Karter]

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces 1974-00-00 Angela Carter Quartet Books 0-7043-2043-6   122
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Fireworks 1976-00-00 Angela Carter Quartet Books 0-7043-3091-1
£1.00?£: UK pound
122
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Bob Foulke  
Fireworks 1981-05-00 Angela Carter Harper & Row 0-06-014852-7
$9.95?$: US dollar
133
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Ron Walotsky  
Fireworks 1982-02-00 Angela Carter Harper Colophon 0-06-090920-X
$4.25?$: US dollar
133
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Ron Walotsky  
Wayward Girls & Wicked Women: An Anthology of Stories 1986-11-03 ed. Angela Carter Virago 0-86068-574-8   xxi+
339
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Fireworks 1987-00-00 Angela Carter Virago (Virago Modern Classics #289) 0-86068-402-4
£2.95?£: UK pound
120
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Deborah Samuel  
Fireworks 1987-04-00 Angela Carter Chatto & Windus 0-7011-3215-9
£10.95?£: UK pound
120
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Fireworks 1987-12-00 Angela Carter Penguin Books (US) (King Penguin) 0-14-010588-3
$5.95?$: US dollar
133
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll  
Artificial Fire 1988-00-00 Angela Carter McClelland and Stewart 0-7710-1898-3   236
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
omni Lisa Crouch  
Fireworks 1988-06-00 Angela Carter Virago 0-86068-402-4
£2.95?£: UK pound
120
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll  
Wayward Girls & Wicked Women: An Anthology of Stories 1989-01-01 ed. Angela Carter Penguin Books (US) 0-14-010371-6
$17.00?$: US dollar
cii+
339
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth  
Alef, #16 1989-09-00 ed.
Boban Knežević?Boban Knezevic
Dnevnik  
Din 32,000?Din: Serbian and Yugoslavian dinar
132
A5?14.8 cm by 21 cm or 5.8" by 8.3" magazine, used by some UK and European magazines
mag Chris Achilleos Checkmark
Fireworks 1992-00-00 Angela Carter Virago 0-86068-402-4
£5.99?£: UK pound
120
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Irene Von Treskow Checkmark
Fireworks 1994-05-00 Angela Carter Penguin Books (US) 0-14-010588-3
$11.95?$: US dollar
v+
133
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll  
Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories 1995-07-00 Angela Carter Chatto & Windus 0-7011-6321-6
£20.00?£: UK pound
xiv+
462
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Angela Carter  
Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories 1996-04-00 Angela Carter Henry Holt 0-8050-4462-0
$30.00?$: US dollar
462
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll John Westmark  
Burning Your Boats: Collected Stories 1996-07-00 Angela Carter Vintage (UK) (Vintage Classics) 0-09-959291-6
£8.99?£: UK pound
xiv+
462
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Parra  
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories 1996-10-00 ed. Michael Cox Oxford University Press 0-19-214260-7
£17.99?£: UK pound
xx+
425
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth David Inshaw  
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories 1996-10-00 ed. Michael Cox Oxford University Press 0-19-214260-7
$25.00?$: US dollar
xix+
425
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth David Inshaw  
Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories 1997-08-00 Angela Carter Penguin Books (US) 0-14-025528-1
$14.95?$: US dollar
xiv+
462
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Roxanna Bikadoroff Checkmark
Fireworks 2004-00-00 Angela Carter Virago (Virago Modern Classics #289) 0-86068-402-4
£7.99?£: UK pound
120
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Deborah Samuel Checkmark
Fireworks 2006-10-00 Angela Carter Virago (Virago Modern Classics) 1-84408-367-5
£7.99?£: UK pound
153
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll  
Burning Your Boats: Collected Stories date unknown Angela Carter Vintage (UK) (Vintage Classics) 0-09-959291-6
£9.99?£: UK pound
xvi+
552
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Parra Checkmark
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