Oxford: Heinemann, 1997. SIGNED first edition - Jamaican born poet and short story writer's first novel, rooted in the folk tradition of the Caribbean villages. SIGNED by author on title page and dated 8/28/97. ISBN: 0-435-989464.

Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1992. SIGNED first edition - Collection of poetry by this Afro-Caribbean writer, born in Jamaica. INSCRIBED by Adisa on title page - For --- "May the words transport you to my land" - and dated in1993. 118 pp. ISBN: 0--20813712.

Berkeley, CA: Kelsey Street Press, (1987.). Collection of short stories rooted in the oral tradition of her Jamaican homeland - includes the 1987 Pushcart Prize winning story, `Duppy Get Her'. Praise on cover from Alice Walker and Michelle Cliff. Introduction by Barbara Christian. xiii, 116 pp. ISBN: 0-932716-202.

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991. In addition to the contributors shown above, this includes selections by Hilda Contreras, Maryse Conde, Rosario Ferre, Hazel Campbell, Olga Nolla, Ana Lydia Vega, Olive Senior and many others. Selected bibliography. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-8135-17389.

Toronto: Insomniac Press, (1999). First edition - A powerful collection of poetry by this award winning writer, born in Jamaica who moved to Canada in 1969. "Psychic Unrest is full of sea and rain, love and disappointment, blues and golds, rhythm and revolution." 102 pp. ISBN: 1-895837553.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. First edition - Collection of poetry by this Jamaican-born writer. The poems deal with the colonized and the colonizer, with slavery and life in Africa and the new world.

London: Chatto & Windus / Hogarth Press, (1984). First edition - An anthology which focuses on poetry by writers born in the West Indies but who came to England to live. Contributors include John La Rose, Andrew Salkey, Wilson Harris, Lynton Kwesi Johnson, Frederick D'Aguiar, Grace Nichols and many others. Introduction by Berry, notes on contributors. xxvii, 212 pp. ISBN: -070112797X.

New York: Penguin, (1987.). First book by the nephew of V. S. Naipul, a collection of short stories set either in the author''s native Trinidad or dealing with Trinidadian immigrants in Canada. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0089357.

New York: New Directions, (1993.). A collection of poems on the effects of the middle passage of slavery on the New World, which celebrate great musicians (Ellington, Bessie Smith and others), poets, heroes of the resistance, and Third World leaders. 120 pp. ISBN: 0-8112-12327.

New York: Kensington, 1999. Author's first novel, set in the dry hills of her native Trinidad.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated, with a substantial introduction and notes by Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith. A bilingual edition with the original French and English translation on facing pages. Born in Martinique, Cesaire studied in Paris where he met Leopold Senghor, and "discovered Africa" and began his lifelong dedication to the idea of Negritude. This collection begins with his important first book, written in 1939 upon his return to the Caribbean -Cahier du Retour au Pays Natal -Notebook of a Return to the Native Land. xv, 408 pp.

Poitiers, Vienne, France: Editions Pierre Seghers, (1966.). "Presentation par Lilyan Kesteloot, choix de textes, bibliographie, portraits, fac-similes." Text in French (texte en francais.) Contains an introduction and biographical information by Lilyan Kesteloot, includes a generous selection of poems by Cesaire, the Martinque-born poet. Illustrated with several photographs. Poetes d'Aujourd'Hui 85; 211 pp. Small square format.

Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first appearance in English of two very significant works by Cesaire: the long dramatic poem 'Et les chiens se taisaient' (And the Dogs Were Silent) and 'moi, laminaire' and other poems. 'And the Dogs Were Silent' appears only in English in this volume; the shorter poems are in both French and English. Introduction by A. James Arnold. A title in the Caraf Series which consists of works of Caribbean and African Literature translated from the French. 235 pages. ISBN: 0-8139-12563.

New York: Pantheon, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated from the French and Creole by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokurov. Winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize. Traces one hundred and fifty years of post-slavery Caribbean history through the events of the Texaco quarter of Fort-de-France in Martinique. Translators' afterword, glossary. 401 pp. ISBN: 0-679-432353.

New York: Pantheon, (1998.). First edition - Translated from the French and Creole by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokurov. AN 'intriguing riff on the police procedural' set during Carnival time in Fort-de-France, Martinque. Translators' afterword, glossary. 190 pp.

London: Granta, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated from the French and Creole by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokurov. Winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize. Traces one hundred and fifty years of post-slavery Caribbean history through the events of the Texaco quarter of Fort-de-France in Martinique. Translators' afterword, glossary. 401 pp. ISBN: 1-862070075.

New York: Pantheon, (1998.) dj. Hardcover - Translated from the French and Creole by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokurov. AN 'intriguing riff on the police procedural' set during Carnival time in Fort-de-France, Martinque. Translators' afterword, glossary. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-679-432361.

Kingston, Jamaica: Kingston Publishers, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - An African Jamaican trade union leader tells of his imprisonment in the island's first political detention camp during the state of emergency declared during the mid-1970s. Preface by Ulric Simmonds. Illustrated with eleven photographs. xiv, 205 p.

New York: Amistad / Harper Collins, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - Eleventh novel by this award-winning writer, born in Barbados, but who has lived in Canada much of his life. A book which "carries readers into the lonely life of an immigrant domesticÑabandoned years before by a faithless husband, her life devastated by her sonÕs involvement in gang culture and crimeÑand her remarkable journey from tragedy back to the light." 300 pp. ISBN: 978-0061772405.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1999. First edition - Novel issued as a trade paperback only by this highly acclaimed Barbadian-Canadian author - winner of the 1999 W. O. Mitchell literary prize.

Toronto: Macmillan, (1967). Hardcover first edition - The third novel by this highly acclaimed Barbadian-Canadian author, set among West Indian immigrants in Toronto. Clarke was the winner (among many other awards) of the 1999 W. O. Mitchell literary prize. 250 pp.

New York: Dutton, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of short stories, of which one is set in the author's homeland of Jamaica, the rest in the US. 155 pp. ISBN: 0-525-248641.

New York: Dutton, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of short stories, of which one is set in the author's homeland of Jamaica, the rest in the US. 155 pp. ISBN: 0-525-248641.

New York: Dutton, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of short stories, of which one is set in the author's homeland of Jamaica, the rest in the US. 155 pp. ISBN: 0-525-248641.

New York: The Crossing Press, 1984. First edition - Cliff's first novel, set in her native Jamaica - the title refers to the conch shell - the instrument used by the Maroons to communicate with one another in their guerilla struggles against the English slave-owners. Glossary. 167 pp. Promotional slip laid in. ISBN: 0-89594-1392.

New York & London: Reader's International, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of modern Haiti by this exiled writer, painter and anti-Duvalier journalist. Translated by Bridget Jones. ISBN: 0-930523-36x.

Bridgetown: Barbados National Trust n.d. (ca 1975). Fifth edition of a work originally published in 1955 - each edition adds more words to the list. [6] 120 pp. Wraparound cover art by Jill Walker.

Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, (1982.). First edition - The first novel by this award winning writer, born in Guadeloupe in 1937. Originally published in French in 1976, translated by Richard Philcox. The title comes from the Mande (Mandingo) for "welcome house." 176 pp. ISBN: 0-89410-2338.