Chicago: University of Illinois Press, (1997). Second edition of this classic study of Black Carib culture and its preservation through ancestral rituals, originally published in 1983. This edition includes a new foreword by Constance R. Sutton and a new afterword by the author. Appendices, references, index. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-252-066650.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED. Author's fourth book, a highly-praised coming-of-age story.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel which tells the story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica - the daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half African father, abandoned as an infant. SIGNED on the title page. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-374-107319.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on title page. Author's fourth book, a highly-praised coming-of-age story. ISBN: 0-374-194343.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel set on the island of Antigua in the West Indies where Kincaid was born, this is the story of Mr. Potter, "an illiterate taxi chauffeur who makes his living along the wide, open roads that pass the only towns he has ever seen and the graveyard where he will be buried" as told by his daughter. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-374214948.

New York: Plume, (1997.). SIGNED - Novel which tells the story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica - the daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half African father, abandoned as an infant. SIGNED on the title page. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-452-274664.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her highly praised first book, a collection of 10 short pieces by this Antiguan writer who first came to the US to work as an au pair, and who wound up writing for the New Yorker. While these are described as memories of a childhood in the Caribbean, there is nothing sentimental about them. SIGNED on the title page by Kincaid. Praise from Derek Walcott on the back cover of the dust jacket. ISBN: 0-374-106606.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel which tells the story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica - the daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half African father, abandoned as an infant. SIGNED on the title page. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-374-107319.

Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1992. dj. Hardcover - A wide-ranging collection of Caribbean vignettes, historical, personal, and cultural. With photographs and suggestions for further reading. Map. Index, 324 pp. ISBN: 0-201-523965.

New York & London: Allison & Busby, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - 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 important novels by this award-winning author, who was born and educated in Barbados. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper, and uncommon thus. 351 pp. ISBN: 0-850316952.

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, (1996.). SIGNED - Originally published in 1960, at a time when the colonies were moving towards independence and Caribbean literature was making its first worldwide impact, this series of interrelated essays focus on his life as a writer in self-imposed exile in England and of his travels in the Caribbean, West Africa, and the United States and on the experiences of other writers from the Caribbean - Salkey, Naipaul and more. Index. Includes a foreword by Sandra Pouchet Paquet, with references. INSCRIBED by Lamming on the dedication page, with the words "best wishes." Index. xxvii, 232 pp. ISBN: 0-472-064703.

New York & London: Allison & Busby, (1986) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - 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 important novels by this award-winning author, who was born and educated in Barbados. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper, and uncommon thus. 351 pp. ISBN: 0-850316952.

New York: McGraw-Hill, (1953) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, which was very highly praised on its original publication in England, The story of a boy growing into manhood in the 1930s on the island of Barbados. With an introduction by Richard Wright. The true first American edition is quite hard to find (book clubs are common and often misidentified as firsts). Endpapers and frontispiece illustrations by Denis Williams. Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for Literature. xii, 313 pp.

New York & London: Allison & Busby, (1981) dj. Hardcover - The third novel by this Barbados born author, originally published in 1958. One of his major works, this is set on a remote Caribbean island at a turning point in its history, on the eve of its first general election when the three oppressed races - Negro, Indian and Chinese - stand unified against their white rulers. 413 pp. ISBN: 0-850313856.

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, (1994.). First edition - Examines 300 years of social life on Antigua and Barbados, moving from the period of slavery and emancipation under British colonial rule to independence. 367 pp. with index, notes and works cited. ISBN: 1-56098-3264.

New York: Basic Books, 2016. First edition - 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 exiled to France and spent the last year of his life in a prison cell. Maps. Illustrated. Extensive notes, bibliographic essay. 323 pp.

Toronto: Sister Vision, (1990). Includes some poems in Jamaican dialect. Glossary. 60 pp. ISBN: 0-920813-003.

New York: Harcourt Brace & World, (1970.). Hardcover - Important third novel by this Brooklyn-born African American writer, who has spent much time in the Caribbean. Set in a remote, devasted part of a small Caribbean island, this is the story of an advance team for an ambitious American- funded redevelopment project, and of the ambivalent relationships which these Americans form with the islanders. 472 pp.

Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, (1989) dj. Hardcover - During his research for a novel to be set in the Caribbean, author James Michener and his associate John Kings visited Cuba, where they spent 6 days in Havana. This book is based on interviews with almost 200 Cubans of very different backgrounds and positions, and looks at how the country has progressed after 90 years of independence from Spain and under the 30-year leadership of Castro Illustrated throughout with full-color photographs by John Kings. Slightly oversized format, printed throughout on glossy paper. 144 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-292776292.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel (preceded by a collection of short stories), a story of the ancient curse that has haunted Oscar's family as they moved from Santo Domingo to Washington Heights to New Jersey and back again.SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Diaz is a recipient of the MacArthur 'genius' award. 333 pp.

New York: Grove Press, 1998. First edition - Author's highly praised first novel, originally published in Canada in 1996 and a finalist for the Giller Prize, the Canada First Novel Award and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Set on a fictional Caribbean island in the town of Paradise, it employs myth and magic to explore identity, violence and love.

New York: Grove Press, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first novel, originally published as a trade paperback original in Canada in 1996 and a finalist for th Giller Prize, the Canada First Novel Award and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Set on a fictional Caribbean island in the town of Paradise, it employs myth and magic to explore identity, violence and love. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-8021-16337.

New York: Grove Press, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this artist and poet who was born in Ireland but grew up in Trinidad. Set partially on a fictitious Caribbean Island, and partly in Vancouver, Canada, this is a love story that transcends the strictures of society. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-8021-17988.

New York: Grove Press, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first novel, originally published as a trade paperback original in Canada in 1996 and a finalist for th Giller Prize, the Canada First Novel Award and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Set on a fictional Caribbean island in the town of Paradise, it employs myth and magic to explore identity, violence and love. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-8021-16337.

London: Faber & Faber, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Stories by V.S. Naipaul, Jamaica Kincaid, Austin Clarke, Andrew Salkey, Neil Bissoondath, Olive Senior, Jan Carew, Clyde Hossein and others - as noted in the introduction by Morris, the authors come from Trinidad, Barbados, Jamaica, Guyana, St Lucia, etc, but half of them now live and work abroad. Among the selections are 'Veins Visible' by Neil Bissoondath; 'The Spirit Thief' by Erna Brodber; 'An Honest Thief' by Timothy Callender; 'Easter Sunday Morning' by Hazel D. Campbell; 'Tilson Ezekiel Alias Ti-Zek' by Jan Carew; T'My Mother' by Jamaica Kincaid, and more. Glossary and notes on the authors. xi, 275 pp. ISBN: 0-571-152988.

New York: Viking, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the small South American country of Cuyama - 'a tract of land on the fringes of an Empire whose interests had always lain elsewhere.' The story of Aubrey, a descendant of slaveholders, and now the owner of a failing bookstore, earnest and conscience-stricken, who feels that he must do something to stop the coming plebiscite which will suspend the constitution and establish a dictatorship. 185 pp. ISBN: 0-670-442119.

New York: Viking, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the small South American country of Cuyama 'a tract of land on the fringes of an Empire whose interests had always lain elsewhere.' The story of Aubrey, a descendant of slaveholders, and now the owner of a failing bookstore, earnest and conscience- stricken, who feels that he must do something to stop the coming plebiscite which will suspend the constitution and establish a dictatorship. 185 pp. ISBN: 0-670-442119.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel by this award winning Trinidadian-born author, the younger brother of V. S. Naipual. The story of two families of Indian descent whose lives are intertwined in the small village they are desperate to escape. The title refers to a small shell dound along the tideline, and gathering these shells is a weary and unrewarding task. Winner of the Whitbread award. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-394483456.

New York: Longmans, Green and Co (1957, c 1940) dj. Hardcover - A fictionalized account of Christophe, a leader of the Haitian Revolution, who was born a slave in 1767 and died a king, written for older children and young adults.Illustrated with drawings at the head of each chapter by Avery Johnson, who also illustrated the wraparound dust jacket. Author's note, bibliography. xii, 276 pp.

Seattle: Seal Press, 2000. First edition - Author's second book, but her third to be published - a novel set in her native Trinidad, in the 1950s. Based on actual events, this is the story of two women, once childhood friends, who are reunited when the body of a murdered white woman is pulled from the sea. 288 pp plus author's notes. Winner of the American Book Award.