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: 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.

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.

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 & 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.

New York: Ballantine, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - 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. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-345-360745.

New York: Ballantine, (1993.). 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. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-345-384695.

New York: Vintage Books, (1998). SIGNED - Young Haitian's first book - in 1996, Danticat was one of 2 African American writers who were included in the Granta magazine's list of the 20 most promising young writers in the United States. This title was also an Oprah selection. SIGNED by the author, 234 pp. ISBN: 0-375-70504x.

New York: SOHO Press, (1998.). SIGNED first edition - INSCRIBED on the half title page "To -- in Sisterhood!" and dated in the year of publication. Second novel by this Haitian born writer, who was named by Granta Magazine as one of the 20 best young writers in the US. A powerful story of love and terror and dignity set in the late 1930's on the Dominican side of the river that forms the boundary between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Based on an actual historical incident. 312 pp.

New York: SOHO Press, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this Haitian born writer, who was named by Granta Magazine as one of the 20 best young writers in the US. A powerful story of love and terror and dignity set in the late 1930s on the Dominican side of the river that forms the boundary between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Based on an actual historical incident. 312 pp. ISBN: 1-56947-1266.

New York: SOHO Press, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Haitian-born author's second book and first collection of short stories - a National Book Award finalist, by one of the Granta 20 authors. A powerful collection of 9 stories about life under Haiti's dictatorships, and about those who fled from Haiti. SIGNED on the title page. 224 pp. ISBN: 1569470251.

New York: SOHO Press, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel by this Haitian born writer, who was named by Granta Magazine as one of the 20 best young writers in the US. A powerful story of love and terror and dignity set in the late 1930s on the Dominican side of the river that forms the boundary between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Based on an actual historical incident. SIGNED on the title page. 312 pp. ISBN: 1-56947-1266.

New York: Vintage Books, (1998). SIGNED - Young Haitian's first book - in 1996, Danticat was one of 2 African American writers who were included in the Granta magazine's list of the 20 most promising young writers in the United States. This title was also an Oprah selection. SIGNED by the author, 234 pp. ISBN: 0-375-70504x.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. dj. Hardcover first edition - In a small seaside town in Haiti a little girl, the daughter of a fisherman, has gone missing. 238 pp. ISBN: 978-0307271792.

New York: Vintage Books, (2005) dj. A novel which explores the life of a man who buried his past - as a torturer (a dew breaker) for the repressive regime in Haiti -beneath his new life in Brooklyn, NY. 242 pp.

New York: SOHO Press, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel by this Haitian born writer, who was named by Granta Magazine as one of the 20 best young writers in the US. A powerful story of love and terror and dignity set in the late 1930s on the Dominican side of the river that forms the boundary between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Based on an actual historical incident. SIGNED on the title page. 312 pp. ISBN: 1-56947-1266.

Melbourne, Australia: Australasian Book Society 1956. First edition - The second novel by this Trinidadian-born Australian social realist novelist, described as "an outspoken opponent of racism, injustice, greed and corruption, a passionate humanist with a vision of a just society" Set during the Second World War when thousands of American soldiers came to Trinidad to build and man military bases and the dollars from the American military presence changed Trinidad from a neglected and quasi-feudal British colony into a competitive market economy. It remains relevant because it gives a portrait of a period in Trinidad's recent past which is still very much alive in shaping its present. 214 pp. Uncommon in the true first edition.

London: Ernest Benn Limited , (1978) dj. Hardcover - Reprinted many times, this is the author's best known novel, "founded on fact, of the West Indies of the early nineteenth century. . . Robert Rutherford is sent to the Islands to learn the planter's business from the bottom. He becomes an overseer at Rosehall, the property of a young widow, Mrs Palmer, whose three husbands have all died in curious circumstances." 255 pp. Photo on back of dust jacket is of Rosehall, now in ruins. ISBN: 0-510-199046.

New York: Riverhead Books, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second collection of short stories (third book) - nine interconnected stories featuring Yunior and the women he loves. Finalist for the National Book Award. 213 pp. ISBN: 978-1594487361.

New York: Dial Press, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First book for children by this Pulitzer prize winning author, who was 'islandborn' himself - in the Dominican Republic. SIGNED on the title page and dated in April 2018. Illustrated by Leo Espinosa. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-0735229860.

New York: Riverhead Books, (2012). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second collection of short stories (third book) - nine interconnected stories featuring Yunior and the women he loves. Finalist for the National Book Award. SIGNED on the title page. 213 pp. ISBN: 978-1594487361.

New York: Monthly Review Press, (1991.). A title in the Voices of Resistance Series. Historical novel originally published in 1934, the story of a slave and the Haitian Revolution of 1791. Foreword by Jamaica Kincaid. Afterword by David Barry Gaspar and Michel-Rolph Trouillot. Notes 199 pp. ISBN: 0-85345-745X.

Whitefish, MT: A Kidz World, (2005). SIGNED first edition - 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 the name for barbecue to the punta rock. Each page is colorfully illustrated, with a decorative border. SIGNED on the half title page by the artist/illustrator Debbie Cooper. Large format. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0-976040603.