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.

Seattle: Seal Press, (2000) dj. Hardcover 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. 286 pp plus author's notes and publisher's ad. Winner of the American Book Award. ISBN: 1580050360.

New York: Ballantine, (2006). Hardcover first edition - Sixth book by this award winning author, a retelling of The Tempest set on a small Caribbean Island off the coast of Trinidad at the height of the tension between the native population and the British colonists..316 pp. ISBN: 0-345-455355.

New York: Viking, 1999. dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised first book by this young writer from the Dominican Republic. Dust jacket comments from Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, Maryse Conde. ISBN: 0-670-868892.

New York: Viking, 1999. First edition - Highly praised first book by this young writer from the Dominican Republic. Cover comments from Julia Alvarez. 324 pp.

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: 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: 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: 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,

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: 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: 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, 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, 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, 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 - 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: 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, (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.

Boston & London: Faber & Faber, (1992.). Author's 3rd book, and his only work of non-fiction to date, winner of the Martin Luther King Memorial Award. 129 pp. ISBN: 0-571-198031.

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: 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 & 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.