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Oxford & NY: : Oxford University Press,, (1999). First edition -. Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers with self flaps (usual toning to pages, crease to lower corner of front cover, some creasing to spine). . First printing, a trade paperback. Anthology collecting 52 stories of pan-Caribbean short fiction, arranged chronologically by the author's date of birth.… Read more about this item

New York:: Reynal & Hitchcock,, (1947). Hardcover -. Significant browning to the pages, otherwise very good in a good only dj with edgewear, some small chips, sunning to the spine and more. . Liberty Book Club noted on dustjacket flap. A deceptively simple story of a young man who returns to his Haitian village after spending several years… Read more about this item

New Castle, DE:: Oak Knoll Press in association with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the John Carter Brown Library,, 2002.. Hardcover -. Near fine in maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover, no dust jacket. . First edition, second printing. Originally published in 1971, this edition includes 270 new entries not included in… Read more about this item

New York:: George Braziller,, (1986). First edition -. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with French flaps (some sunning to bottom edge of front cover).. First printing, a large trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. The first trade edition of this collection of 10 intertwined surrealistic poems by this Carribean poet, one of the foremost advocates of negritude,… Read more about this item

New York:: McGraw-Hill,, (1953). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in sienna boards with black spine with white lettering in a good only dustjacket with several chips to the edge, one to the side of the spine and sunning to spine. Original price of $3.75 on dj flap. . First US printing. Author's first novel, which was… Read more about this item

Amherst:: University of Massachutts Press,, (1992). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. A comparative study of three major Caribbean novelists: Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, and Edouard Glissant. "Despite differences of language and background, these writers from Cuba, Guyana and Martinique have much in common. Each has written extensively on… Read more about this item

Toronto:: Thomas Allen Publishers, , (2002). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. (light crease to front flap of dj). First printing. Powerful novel by this Afro-Canadian writer, set in his native Barbados, and winner of the Giller Prize and The Commonwealth Writers Prize. "When Mary-Mathilda . . calls the police to confess… Read more about this item

Chicago:: Research Associates / School Times Publications, , (1996). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First edition, a trade paperback original. The author examines the language, religion, music and social organization of the Jamaican people to reveal the strong cultural continuities with Africa and the origins of new cultural forms and political movements, such as… Read more about this item

Miami, Florida:: Ediciones Universal,, (1981). First edition -. Near fine in white illustrated wrappers with self-flaps (previous owner's name, small peeled spot on front cover).. First printing, a trade paperback original. The final book by this scholar and educator who focused on Afro-Hispanic literature from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and elsewhere in the Caribbean. Among the topics covered… Read more about this item

New York:: Ballantine,, (1992). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (slight sunning to spine of dj, and vertical crease). First US printing. Novel of several generations of a family from Guadeloupe - ranging from Panama to Harlem, from upper class Paris to the slums of Haiti. Translated by Victoria Reiter. Glossary.… Read more about this item

Cambridge, England:: Cambridge University Press,, (1988). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in brown cloth with gilt lettering. . First printing. Includes chapters on the slave registration order, the population of Trinidad, slave mortality and more. Illustrated with photographs and numerous charts, figures and tables. Frontispiece map. Appendices with the Code Noir of 1789. the Slave… Read more about this item

San Francisco:: Scrimshaw Press, , 1973.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in brown cloth with a photographic inset on the front cover, in a good dust jacket (rubbing, small chip at top of dj spine). . First printing. A gorgeous portrait of the island and peoples of Antigua, with text by Gregson Davis and illustrated… Read more about this item

New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, (1993). Hardcover first edition -. Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good dj (inconspicuous spine label) . First printing. The second novel by this Trinidian author who is considered the first Black Caribbean woman to have published a major work of fiction. This… Read more about this item

New York:: Teachers College Press,, (1970). First edition -. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (address label on first page).. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. A book by this Trinidadian professor which focuses on Black poetry in the Antilles in the 1920s and 1930s, especially that of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti and… Read more about this item

Whitefish, MT: : A Kidz World,, (2005). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. An introduction to the history and culture of the Garifuna people (who came to Belize from the Honduras in 1858) and also of the influence that their culture has had on the modern world - from… Read more about this item

New York:: Basic Books,, 2016.. First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) The definitive biography of the man, born into bondage in Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) who became a freedman, then a small planter and finally the leader in 1791 of the only successful slave revolt in history, although he was… Read more about this item

New York:: Sarpedon, , (1994). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. "The largest, and only successful, slave revolt in history took place in Haiti in 1791, shortly after the French Revolution. First organized by a voodoo priest, the rebellion soon came under the leadership of an… Read more about this item

Bloomington, IN: : Indiana University Press,, (1979). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The oral autobiography of a West Indian fisherman, who spent most of his life on Santo Domingo and on the Windward and Leeward Islands - one who "dared to go to the windward of the land, where the… Read more about this item

New York & London:: Allison & Busby,, (1986). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First thus. A reissue of Lamming's allegorical novel which tells the story of a journey of a slave ship toward San Christobal during the early colonial period. Originally published in 1972, this is one of the most… Read more about this item

New York:: Grove Press,, (2001). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) The author's third book and first collection of short stories, which blend Caribbean folk stories with American pop culture, since they were set in a boarding house for American soldiers near the seaside town of Corpus… Read more about this item