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CROSSING THE RIVER
Edition: First US printing.
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.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dj (remainder mark)
Book ID: 23019More details Price: $18.00 -
A DISTANT SHORE.
Edition: First US printing.
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.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 75639More details Price: $18.00 -
CAMBRIDGE
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52155More details Price: $25.00 -
THE NATURE OF BLOOD
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
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,
Condition: Fine in stiff wrappers in a very near fine matching stiff paper slipcase.
Book ID: 11250More details Price: $45.00 -
HIGHER GROUND, a Novel in Three Parts
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 5144More details Price: $50.00 -
HIGHER GROUND, a Novel in Three Parts
Edition: First US printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket (rem line).
Book ID: 5145More details Price: $18.00 -
CAMBRIDGE
Edition: 3rd printing.
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."
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 5146More details Price: $12.00 -
THE EUROPEAN TRIBE
Edition: First US printing.
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.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (corners slightly bumped.)
Book ID: 5147More details Price: $35.00 -
CROSSING THE RIVER
Edition: 2nd US printing.
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.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (prev owner's name)
Book ID: 28279More details Price: $10.00 -
HIGHER GROUND, a Novel in Three Parts
Edition: First US printing.
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.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine dj.
Book ID: 47041More details Price: $10.00 -
CROSSING THE RIVER
Edition: 3rd UK printing.
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.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (a new, unread copy, but the top edge of the rear board has been bumped; a nicely produced book with ribbon marker.)
Book ID: 6094More details Price: $12.00 -
A STATE OF INDEPENDENCE
Edition: First US printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (some toning to the flaps of the dj).
Book ID: 21285More details Price: $35.00 -
DANCING IN THE DARK.
Edition: First US printing.
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.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder dot)
Book ID: 64308More details Price: $18.00 -
A STATE OF INDEPENDENCE
Edition: First US printing.
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.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine dj.
Book ID: 21286More details Price: $14.00 -
HIGHER GROUND, a Novel in Three Parts
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
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.
Condition: Very good (remainder line,usual toning to the pages, no creasing).
Book ID: 34161More details Price: $7.50 -
THE NATURE OF BLOOD
Edition: First US printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new, but with a remainder mark.)
Book ID: 17603More details Price: $18.00 -
A STATE OF INDEPENDENCE
Edition: First US trade paperback printing.
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.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 5470More details Price: $8.00 -
A SMALL GATHERING OF BONES
Edition: Uncorrected proof for this trade paperback original.
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. .
Condition: Near fine in white printed wrappers.
Book ID: 28727More details Price: $18.00 -
A SMALL GATHERING OF BONES
Edition: Uncorrected proof for this trade paperback original.
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. .
Condition: Fne in white printed wrappers.
Book ID: 35135More details Price: $25.00 -
THE WOMAN, THE WRITER, AND CARIBBEAN SOCIETY.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
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.
Condition: Fine (as new.)
Book ID: 25878More details Price: $20.00 -
WAITING IN THE TWILIGHT.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
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.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79237More details Price: $21.50 -
ROMANCE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
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.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79238More details Price: $20.00 -
MARKET DAY FOR TI ANDRE.
Edition: First printing.
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. .
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some bleeding from the red cloth to the dustjacket, price-clipped, but overall a tight and attractive copy.) Uncommon, especially in this condition.
Book ID: 39771More details Price: $75.00 -
BETWEEN TWO WORLDS.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket A few spots to the outer edge of the textblock, but otherwise appears unread.
Book ID: 71722More details Price: $25.00 -
THE MAGIC ISLAND.
Edition: Book club edition.
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.
Condition: Very good in yellow cloth (marginal tears to a few pages, not affecting the text) in a good dust jacket with the stylized geometric cover illustration used by the Literary Guild at the time. (tear to spine, loss of approximately 1/2 at base of spine, overall edgewear.
Book ID: 79258More details Price: $50.00 -
IT A COME.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
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.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 9681More details Price: $13.50 -
DREAMER: Poems.
Edition: First printing in wrappers.
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.
Condition: Very good (some underlining and marginal notations.)
Book ID: 29208More details Price: $10.00 -
RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN POST-EMANCIPATION JAMAICA.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
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.
Condition: Near fine (crease to front cover.)
Book ID: 30992More details Price: $22.00 -
AN ISLAND OF HIS OWN
Edition: First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition.
Tucson: Junction Press, 1992. First edition - First collection of poetry by this Trinidadian writer. Cover commentary from Derek Walcott.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (crease to lower corner.)
Book ID: 9774More details Price: $20.00 -
TASTE OF SALT: A Story of Modern Haiti .
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 44900More details Price: $30.00