New York: Atheneum, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Complex novel about the relationship between a father and daughter, set in the Caribbean and in New York City, by this writer who was born and raised in Brooklyn. Writing in the NY Times, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer called this "Flawless in its sense of place and character, remarkable in its understanding of human nature, a triumph in every way." SIGNED on the title page by the author. Publisher's promotional postcard laid in 408 pp. ISBN: 0-689-121393.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. Hardcover first edition - Ten powerful short stories of Afro-Caribbean life, set in the West Indies, Panama, and the Central American isthmus. An uncommon book by this Harlem Renaissance writer who was born in Guyana. 282 pp.

New York: Ballantine, (2022) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first book, one which appeared on many "must-read" lists at its publication. The New York Times review described it as Òrefreshingly direct and declarative . . . a mirror capturing the bleak comedies of life in a threatened community.Ó The plot revolves around the Guerreros, a Dominican American family living in Upper ManhattanÕs Nothar Park, and each memberÕs reaction to encroaching gentrification. The book examines the sacrifices people make to protect what they love the most. Natera herself was born in the Dominican Republic, and came to the United States at the age of ten. ISBN: 978-0593358481.

New York: New International, 1987. First edition - Features articles on "The Second Assassination of Maurice Bishop" by Larry Clark (the first was his killing in Grenada in 1983, the second assassination was destroying his legacy), "Cuba: A Historic Moment (two speeches by Fidel Castro )", "The Fifty Year Domestic Contra Operation by Larry Seigle, "Land, Labor and the Canadian Revolution" by Michel Dugre, and more. 272 pp.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. Hardcover - Ten powerful short stories of Afro-Caribbean life, set in the West Indies, Panama, and the Central American isthmus. An uncommon book (in any original edition) by this Harlem Renaissance writer who was born in Guyana. Although DuBois praised this book for its significance - "Here is a book of ten stories of death, which, with impressionistic pen and little plot, show forth with singular vividness the life of black laborers of the West Indies. There is superstition, unusual dialect, singular economic glimpses; but above all, there is truth and human sympathy" he also called it "hard reading." 282 pp.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - Suspense novel set in the Caribbean, featuring Philis, a British secret agent. A Crime Club selection. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-385-18358-5.

New York: TOR / Forge Books, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel that imagines Ian Fleming continued his real-life espionage career after his apparent retirement to Jamaica to become a journalist. When a highly placed member of British Intelligence shows up with a story of stolen nuclear secrets and then mysteriously disappears, Fleming gets involved in investigating. By the authors of the Mycroft Holmes books. 357 pp. ISBN: 0-312869304.

New York: Flatiron Books, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised third novel, a story of the resilience and resourceful of first generation immigrants, inspired by her mother's story. Cristina Garcia commented that it "holds an unflinching gaze on one young immigrant woman's life - its hardships, its hopes, and its richly depicted loves. Ana's story is filled with music and reverence for survival, and for joy. An essential read for our times." SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 978-1250205933.

Portland, OR: Bootleg Press, (2005). First edition - The author's third novel, one which combines a horror story with a thriller. "The Night Witch is a soucouyant, Southern Caribbean cousin to the vampire and werewolf. She is a never aging shape shifter born of a mixture of Voodoo and European folklore. She lives forever because she wears a locket that contains a magic potion. Her locket has been stolen and she wants it back." and so she is coming after Caroline, the daughter of the man who stole. 309 pp plus publisher's ads. ISBN: 0-974524662.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1985. First edition - The definitive biography of this influential Jamaican musician based on interviews with those close to Marley and with Marley himself, including an account of his final concert in Pittsburg just months before his tragic death from cancer in spring of 1981. Bob Marley made "reggae music and his own message of rebellion, self-determination, and the power of the individual a spiritual and political force throughout the world." INSCRIBED by the author inside the front cover and dated in the year of publication, and uncommon thus. Illustrated with photographs, bibliography, index. x, 276 pp. ISBN: 0-385179561.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., Inc., 1903. Hardcover - A romantic adventure novel by this Scottish writer, originally published under the title "Little Anna Mark." Although this begins - and ends - in Scotland, most of it is set in the Caribbean, among the pirates, including a search for Morgan's hidden treasure. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven internal plates on glossy stock. A title in the Crowned Masterpieces of Modern Fiction series, bound in marbleized boards with a dark green cloth spine and gilt lettering on the spine, top edge gilt. 443 pp.

Toronto: Riverbank Press, (2000). First edition - The second novel by this Guyanese-born Canadian writer, nominated for the Governor General's Award. "Over the course of the evening following the burial of his older brother, David, Simon and his partner, Faye, struggle to reconcile their pasts through the prism of the brother who brought them together, but who also drove them apart. A flood of memory - of childhoods in Canada and the Caribbean, of youthful hopes and adult choices - swirls about this haunting multi-layered novel about the shifting nature of love and belonging." 195 pp. ISBN: 1-896332137.

Algonic, MI: Reference Publications, Inc., (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - The Caribbean islands have had a long acquaintance with herbal medicine in the form of "bush teas" going back to the early days of slavery and using both plants introduced from West Africa and indigenous plants. Illustrated with full page botanical drawings throughout. The second book in the series "Medicinal Plants of the World." Includes notes, glossary, bibliography, medicinal index, common names index and index to species. 282 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-917256123.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which goes back and forth between two centuries - from the fight against AIDS in the modern Dominican Republic to the 1803 smallpox expedition of Francisco Xavier Balmis. SIGNED on the title page. 368 pp. ISBN: 1-56512510x.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, (2001) dj. Hardcover - A revised and updated i of this collection of four hundred great soup recipes from around the world, including many South American and Asian recipes. Also includes sections on master techniques, how to find unusual ingredients, and other tips on how to vary the recipes, including charts of patterns on how to improvise soups. Illustrated with full color photographs. Somewhat oversized. Index, 630 pp. ISBN: 0-471391360.

Boston: Little Brown, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - A cumulative rhyming tale set in the Caribbean, Illustrated by Sucie Stevenson. Large oblong format, bound in glossy illustrated boards, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-316128511.

New York: Akashic Books, 2013. First edition - Award-winning historical novel set in 1845 Trinidad. "In 1845 London, an engineer, philosopher, philanthropist, and bold-faced charlatan, John Adolphus Etzler, has invented machines that he thinks will transform the division of labor and free all men. He forms a collective called the Tropical Emigration Society (TES), and recruits a variety of London citizens to take his machines and his misguided ideas to form a proto-socialist, utopian community in the British colony of Trinidad." Edwidge Danticat called this "a marvel of narrative and documents, which collide to create a book that is at times breathtaking and tragic and at other times laugh-out-loud hilarious." Winner of the 2014 OCM Bocas Prize. 327 pp plus final message.

New York: Clarion Books, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - Lively children's book by this award-winning author set in her native Trinidad. "Lily wishes that she could wear a costume like her big sister Christine and 'jump up,' or parade across the stage, during the Children's Carnival. As the whole family works together on Christine's hummingbird outfit, Lily is jealous" but on the big day, when Christine is frightened, Lily reassures her. Illustrated by Linda Saport with warm pastel drawings. Large format, 32 pp. ISBN: 0-395650127.

London: The Crime Club / Collins, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - When the wife of the US ambassador of the newly independent Caribbean country of Tampico is found dead at an embassy part, Henry Tibbett is called in, semi-officially, to assist in the investigation. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-002310570.

New York: Paragon House, (1988). Hardcover first edition - Works by five of the great poets of the 20th century - French, Peruvian, Caribbean and Czech - selected, translated and introduced by Clayton Eshleman and co-translators Annette Smith and Frantisek Galan. ix, 230 pp. ISBN: 1-557780587.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel in this award-winning series set in the British Virgin Islands, and featuring Constable Teddy Creque. 294 pp. ISBN: 978-1250148476.

Boston: Twayne, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - A title in Twayne's United States Authors Series: Young Adult Authors, the first study of this author who was born in Trinidad and raised in Harlem. A "thoughtful study of the many influences that being black has had on Guy's work. Based in part on Norris's in-person interviews with Guy, the book sketchily discusses Guy's life, going more deeply into major cultural movements which threaded through it: the immigration experience of a West Indian family in Harlem in the 1930s and '40s, the Marcus Garvey movement, the Civil Rights movement, etc. [Includes an] in-depth analysis of Guy's books, especially The Friends trilogy. Chronology, frontispiece portrait, selected bibliography, index. [8], 110 pp. ISBN: 0-805782079.

London: Collins, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - An Inspector Henry Tibbetts mystery, set in the British Windward Islands in the Caribbean, where Henry and Emmy are hoping for a quiet vacation - only to discover that the islands were the center of a vicious drug ring, smuggling PCP - angel dust. Although the islands on which this is set are imaginary, Moyes was living in the Caribbean at the time this novel was published and it was based on some very real problems. 268 pp.. ISBN: 0-00-231861x.

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991. In addition to the contributors shown above, this includes selections by Hilda Contreras, Maryse Conde, Rosario Ferre, Hazel Campbell, Olga Nolla, Ana Lydia Vega, Olive Senior and many others. Selected bibliography. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-8135-17389.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2006.). First edition - A novel which goes back and forth between two centuries - from the fight against AIDS in the modern Dominican Republic to the 1803 smallpox expedition of Francisco Xavier Balmis. 368 pp.

New York: Riverhead Books, 1996. SIGNED first edition - His first book, a collection of ten interconnected short stories set in his native Domenican Republic and in the immigrant community in New Jersey. The New Yorker (where some of these stories were originally published) named Diaz as one of the 20 best young American writers - and in 2008, Diaz won the Pulitzer for his second book, 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.' An important debut. SIGNED on the title page. 208 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 4 essays by this Nobel prize winning author who was himself born in Trinidad to Indian parents. In addition to the title piece, it includes Michael X and the Black Power Killings in Trinidad; A New King for the Congo: Mobutu and the Nihilism of Africa and Conrad's Darkness. 227 pp. ISBN: 0-394509684.

Ithaca, New York: McBooks Press, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel set in 1800 on the island of Saint Domingue (as Haiti was known then) during the bloody war between the slaves and their overseers. Maps, author's historical note, glossary. 309 pp. ISBN: 978-1590131046.