New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - The stories of three children of slavery - a masterful novel by this Afro-Caribbean writer, Phillips is one of the authors selected by Granta as the best young writers. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. ISBN: 0-679-40533x.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - A contemporary novel by this award-winning writer from St Kitts, about the fragile connection betwee two people - an English woman, a retired schoolteacher, and an African man, a former soldier who escaped his war-ravaged country and entered England illegally. 277 pp. ISBN: 1-400041090.

London: Bloomsbury, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this award-winning writer, set on the early 19th century on a West Indian plantation, by this Afro-Caribbean writer, called a "powerful anatomy of the age of slavery." 184 pp. Ribbon marker bound in,. ISBN: 0-7475-08860.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED on the first page. Novel transcending time and placeby this award-winning and highly praised Afro-Caribbean writer: the stories of a young Jewish woman in 20th century Germany becomes intertwined with that of an African general hired by the Doge in 16th century Venice,

London: Viking, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - "A haunting triptych of the dispossessed and the abandoned" - in Africa where a man is recounting his days during the slave trade, in America with a young man serving a sentence of life imprisonment, and in Europe, where a woman, survivor of the Holocaust, realizes that she cannot really escape.

New York: Viking, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A haunting triptych of the dispossessed and the abandoned" - in Africa where a man is recounting his days during the slave trade, in America with a young man serving a sentence of life imprisonment, and in Europe, where a woman, survivor of the Holocaust, realizes that she cannot really escape. ISBN: 0-670-826200.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. Hardcover - Another powerful novel, set on a West Indian plantation, by this Afro-Caribbean writer, called a "powerful anatomy of the age of slavery."

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's 3rd book, and his first work of non-fiction, winner of the Martin Luther King Memorial Award.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. dj. Hardcover - The stories of three children of slavery - a masterful novel by this Afro-Caribbean writer, Phillips is one of the authors selected by Granta as the best young writers. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. ISBN: 0-679-40533x.

New York: Viking, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A haunting triptych of the dispossessed and the abandoned" - in Africa where a man is recounting his days during the slave trade, in America with a young man serving a sentence of life imprisonment, and in Europe, where a woman, survivor of the Holocaust, realizes that she cannot really escape. ISBN: 0-670-826200.

London: Bloomsbury, 1993. dj. The stories of three children of slavery - a masterful novel by this Afro-Caribbean writer, Phillips is one of the authors selected by Granta as the best young writers.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second book, the story of Bertram Francis and his return to his Caribbean home, after a 20 year stay in England - a homecoming that coincides with the island's liberation from British rule. 158 pp. ISBN: 0-374-269769.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this award-winning writer from St Kitts, which re-imagines the life of Bert Williams (1874-1922). Born in the Bahamas, and raised in Southern California, Williams became the first black entertainer in the US to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune - a level he reached by putting on blackface and playing the 'coon' as a character on Broadway in the Ziegfield follies. 209 pp plus an epilogue. ISBN: 1400043964.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second book, the story of Bertram Francis and his return to his Caribbean home, after a 20 year stay in England - a homecoming that coincides with the island's liberation from British rule. 158 pp. ISBN: 0-374-269769.

New York: Viking - Penguin, 1990. "A haunting triptych of the dispossessed and the abandoned" - in Africa where a man is recounting his days during the slave trade, in America with a young man serving a sentence of life imprisonment, and in Europe, where a woman, survivor of the Holocaust, realizes that she cannot really escape. 218 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0118063.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel transcending time and place, as the stories of a young Jewish woman in 20th century Germany becomes intertwined with that of an African general hired by the Doge in 16th century Venice, by this award-winning and highly praised Afro-Caribbean writer. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-679-454705.

New York: Collier Books, (1988). Author's second book, the story of Bertram Francis and his return to his Caribbean home, after a 20 year stay in England - a homecoming that coincides with the island's liberation from British rule. 158 pp. ISBN: 0-02-0150806.

London & Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1994. First edition - A title in the Caribbean Writers Series. First novel (second book) by this young writer who was born in Jamaica, described as 'a frank and sensitive novel exploring the complexity of homosexuality' set at in the late 1970's when a mysterious illness was just beginning to threaten the gay community. 139 pp. .

London & Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1994. First edition - A title in the Caribbean Writers Series. First novel (second book) by this young writer who was born in Jamaica, described as 'a frank and sensitive novel exploring the complexity of homosexuality' set at in the late 1970's when a mysterious illness was just beginning to threaten the gay community. 139 pp. .

Los Angeles: UCLA Center for African American Studies, 1998. First edition - Critical analyses of the writings of Caribbean women: proceedings of the second international conference. Includes essays on writers ranging from Mary Prince to Rosa Guy, Michelle Cliff, Jamaica Kincaid and Maryse Conde and on topics ranging from the planter-heroine to Erzulie, the 'loa' of love in Haitian vodoun. Index. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-934934-444.

London: The Women's Press, (1987). First edition - Second novel by this Jamaican born writer, the story of a woman's struggle for dignity against a background of urban racism. A book which "pulls no punches in the effort to portray the 'the forgotten and unglamorous section of my people' within a system which 'openly and systematically discriminates' against them." 165 pp plus 5 pp publisher's ads. ISBN: 0-704340232.

London: The Women's Press, (1988). First edition - Third novel by this Jamaican born writer, the story of two sisters "who could hardly be more different" - Verona is bright and capable, but defiantly fat and immersed in Mills and Boon romance novels, while Desiree is disatisfied with her live and mother and housewife. When John's grandparents arrive from Jamaica, life in Croyden gets a thorough shakeup and both sisters begin to rethink their lives. 231 pp. ISBN: 0-704341018.

New York: The Viking Press, 1952. dj. Hardcover first edition - Uncommon children's story story set in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on market day the wife of Selden Rodman. Although born in Warsaw, Poland, Maia Rodman lived for two years in Haiti before she wrote this book, and she persuaded native Haitain artist Wilson Bigaud to contribute the lively black and white drawings and colorful dustjacket. Slightly oversized format. 48 pp. .

New York: The Literary Guild, 1929. dj. Hardcover - An early edition (same year as the first) of this extremely popular book at the time, a first hand account of voodoo rituals and witchcraft in Haiti that William Seabrook experienced during his stay there in the 1920s. It has been credited with introducing the idea of a zombies to Western culture. It also includes the the story of Faustin Wirkus, a young U.S. Marine Sergeant from Pennsylvania sent by the American administration to the remote island of La Gonave to take charge of the gendarme, who was declared king by the natives and reigned there for several years. Illustrated with 20 full page drawings by Alexander King and photographs by the author. x, 336 pp.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1989. First edition - First collection of poems by a young Jamaican who was murdered by supporters of the Jamaican Labour Party in 1983. Rooted in the oral tradition, and in reggae, these were edited by Mervyn Morris and published posthumously. ISBN: 0-87286-2178.

Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie-Mellon Press, 1990. First edition - A collection in which the poet 'follows the incessant dark seas of the slave trade from Africa to 18th and 20th century Barbados.'. ISBN: 0-88748-0977.

Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, (1992.). First edition - A work which grew out of the author's personal experiences as a Jesuit missionary in Jamaica, this scholarly and comprehensive book volume explores the interaction of two Christianities, one European and the other African-based survivals and Creole adaptations, as well as the Afro-Jamaican response to evangelization. Although primarily concerned with the period after emancipation - that is, after 1834 - it begins with the last great slave rebellion in Jamaican history - the biblically inspired one led by Sam Sharpe, Baptist leader - or 'daddy' - in the parish of St James. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-87049-7488.

Tucson: Junction Press, 1992. First edition - First collection of poetry by this Trinidadian writer. Cover commentary from Derek Walcott.

New York: Orchard Books, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Inspired by the fire bombing of a boy's shelter in Haiti, this is the story of a badly injured seventeen year old boy who tells of his life as a sugar cane field worker and his work against oppression with Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Laid in is a card SIGNED by the author, with a long holographic note to Peter Cunningham, founder of the Papaza Center in Haiti, thanking him for reading the book and discussing ways to help in Haiti. The author's first book, a young adult novel, and recipient of several awards. Glossary. 179 pp. Dust jacket art by Frances Nolting Temple. ISBN: 0-531-054594.