New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1986.). SIGNED - A comprehensive collection of Walcott's early work, winner of the 1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry - this includes most of the poems in his first seven collections, as selected by Walcott. INSCRIBED on the half title page. Bibliography. Index of titles. 516 pp. ISBN: 0-374-126267.

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: Riverhead Books, 2007 dj. SIGNED hardcover 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. 335 pp. ISBN: 1-57322-0418.

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.

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: Pantheon, (2007). Hardcover first edition - For many years Bell, an award winning novelist, immersed himself in the history of the Haitian Revolution, and wrote a trilogy beginning with 'All Souls Rising' set during that era. This biography - the first in more than 50 years in English - brilliantly captures the Haitian leader's complex contradictions. Bell blends a novelists passion with deep historical research to portray an enigmatic genius navigating brutal politics, religion, and the only successful slave revolt. Notes, bibliography, index. Map endpapers. 333 pp. ISBN: 978-0375423376.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Afro-Caribbean author's first novel (her second book), a coming of age story set in her native Antigua. INSCRIBED on title page. 148 pp. ISBN: 0-374-105219.

New York: Ballantine, (1987.). Epic novel set in 1797 in the African kingdom of Segu during the time of the slave trade and the coming of Islam. Translated from the French by Barbara Bray. Based on actual events, this is an authentic and gripping story by this noted Guadaloupean author, a descendant of the Bambara herself. Cover praise from Paule Marshall, Maya Angelou and others. Maps. 493 pp. ISBN: 0-345-353064.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first collection of plays by this Caribbean writer who was both the director of the Trinidad Theater Workshop as well as its chief playwright. Includes, in addition to the title play, The Ti-Jean and His Brothers, The Sea at Dauphin, and Malcochon, or the Six in the Rain. Co-winner of the Obie Award in 1970 for Best Foreign Play. In 1992 Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. 326 pp.

Portland, OR: Tin House Books, (2021) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this Haitian-Canadian writer which uses the catastrophic 7.0 magnitude 2010 Haiti earthquake as its central event, interweaving the stories of ten interconnected characters - a sensitive and complex portrayal of human experiences during the disaster, one which explores deep themes of grief, regret, capitalism, class, and racism, but avoids tipping into hopelessness. Margaret Atwood and Edwidge Danticat have praised it as "stunning" and "sublime." Winner of the 2022 American Book Award. 313 pp. ISBN: 978-1951142766.

London: Evans Brothers Ltd, (1973, c 1970). An anthology edited and with an introduction by Jamaican educator and poet, John Figueroa. Includes selections by Derek Walcott, Claude McKay, Andrew Salkey, Louise Bennett, George Lamming, Martin Carter and many others. Index of authors and titles and of first lines, appendix on 'our complex language situation.' xii, 228 pp. ISBN: 0-237498774.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A retelling of this classic fairy story from the point of view of the godmother - in this case, a washerwoman from the island of Martinique. It begins "You may think you know this story I am going to tell you, but you have not heard it for true. I was there. So I will tell you the truth of it. Here. Now." SIGNED by the author, Robert San Souci on the verso of the front endpaper Illustrated in vibrant full color by Caldecott award winning artist Brian Pinkney, Includes a glossary of French Creole words and phrases and an author's note. Large square format. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0-689-8068x.

Los Angeles: University of California, Center for Afro-American Studies and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, (1979). First edition - Includes a new foreword for this edition by Claudia Mitchell-Kernan. "In post-colonial societies like Jamaica, the issue of cultural identity is as important as political independence and economic self-sufficiency. Professor Nettleford goes further by declaring that cultural identity is as fundamental a reality as food, shelter, clothing and job opportunities and is not a mere abstract preoccupation." Illustrated with photographs. Volume 47 in the Latin American Studies series. Footnotes, index. xxvi, 239 pp. ISBN: 0-934934002.

New York: Harlem River Press, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story of the black experience in Britain, as soon through the eyes of the second generation. It "follows the lives of the Erskine family who, like thousands of others, left Jamaica in the 1950s hoping for a better life in England. Once there, they do find work easily and, despite racial prejudice, prosper, soon buying a house and a car. But Esme, a bitter woman whose hard childhood has soured her, quarrels with Ray, treats her children harshly, even abusively, and the marriage falls apart." 261 pp. ISBN: 0-863162487.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1961) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this Trinidian-born African American. "Set in Trinidad, the novel brutally satirized the island's racial caste system and the entire social hierarchy the British had put in place. A Guardian review noted that Hercules 'animates an absurd milieu where skin color, hair texture, ethnic features, business acumen, respectability, and sometimes intelligence have to be carefully weighed before an individual can be given a social acceptability rating.' Named one of the five best first novels of the year by Newsweek magazine." (James M. Manheim) 212 pp.

Toronto: House Of Anansi Press Inc., (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this artist and poet who was born in Ireland, grew up in Trinidad and now lives in Canada. This centers on a wealthy Trinididian family - Valmiki Krishnu, a renowned doctor and his daughter Viveka, trying to escape the gilded cage that surrounds her. "An intricately woven and thoughtfully constructed book... the reader is forced to confront the many ways and instances in which social obligations and expectations, and in particular expectations regarding gender and sexuality, constrain them. . . The epiphany is subtle but decisive and poignant." (Caribbean Review of Books) 397 pp. ISBN: 978-0887842207.

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.

Oxford & NY: Oxford University Press, (1999). First edition - Anthology collecting 52 stories of pan-Caribbean short fiction, arranged chronologically by the author's date of birth. Includes authors from the English, French, Spanish, and Dutch-speaking Caribbean. Among the stories are those by prominent anglophone writers like Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipual, Samuel Selvon and E.A. Markham and those from French, Spanish, and Dutch writers like Alejo Carpentier, Ren Depestre, and Thea Doelwijt. The new generation, represented, by such writers as Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid and Patrick Chamoiseau, points the way forward for Caribbean writing into the twenty-first century. Introduction by Stewart Brown. Biographical notes on contributors. xxxiii, 476 pp.

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press in association with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the John Carter Brown Library, 2002. Hardcover - Originally published in 1971, this edition includes 270 new entries not included in the original volume. Frontis map of Richard Ford's Barbados, circa 1675. Index. xvi, 205 pp plus errata list. ISBN: 1-584560649.

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.

Amherst: University of Massachutts Press, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - A comparative study of three major Caribbean novelists: Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, and Edouard Glissant. "Despite differences of language and background, these writers from Cuba, Guyana and Martinique have much in common. Each has written extensively on the shared heritage of the peoples of the Caribbean and each has been influential in redefining the novel in the context of New World culture." Notes, selected bibliography, index. x, 185 pp. ISBN: 0-870237845.

Chicago: Research Associates / School Times Publications, (1996). First edition - The author examines the language, religion, music and social organization of the Jamaican people to reveal the strong cultural continuities with Africa and the origins of new cultural forms and political movements, such as Garveyism and Rastafarianism. Alleyne was was a sociolinguist, creolist and dialectologist whose work focused on the creole languages of the Caribbean, so among other things this book explores the correlations between the linguistic picture and other aspects of culture, such as religion. Maps, charts, notes, bibliography, index. 186 pp. ISBN: 0-948390085.

Miami, Florida: Ediciones Universal, (1981). First edition - The final book by this scholar and educator who focused on Afro-Hispanic literature from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and elsewhere in the Caribbean. Among the topics covered are Los antecedentes de la poesa negra; La poesa negra en el concepto moderno and Clasificacin de la poesa afroantillana. Text in Spanish / en espanol. Bibliografia. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-897292375.