TROPIC DEATH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. Hardcover first edition - Ten powerful short stories of Afro-Caribbean life, set in the West Indies, Panama, and the Central American isthmus - a recent exhibit on migration in the Canal Zone noted that "the trope of death appears yet more clearly as an antidote and challenge to the US triumphal narratives of the Canal construction and to the language of tropical tourism that together erased the humanity and modernity of West Indians in Panama." An uncommon book by this Harlem Renaissance writer who was born in Guyana. 282 pp.
Condition: Very good overall condition in black cloth with gold lettering, black and gold illustrated endpapers (tide marks to bottom margin of the pages, visible but not obtrusive and otherwise in better than average condition )