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.

New York: Henry Holt, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel by this award winning writer, one which tells the life stories of two West Indian women in their own voices: Lilla, the white mistress of a dilapidated colonial mansion, and Vel, the Black servant who has been her only companion for ten years. The two women have always treated each other with a distant formality, but when Vel finds herself pregnant, Lilla puts her to bed in her own bedroom and finds herself caring for her. Praise from Christina Garcia, Rosario Ferre, Steven Dixon and Robert Olen Butler (who calls this an extraordinary and enduring work of art.)SIGNED by the author. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 399 pp. ISBN: 0-805049258.

New York: Grove Press, (2005). First edition - The third novel by this award winning writer from the Caribbean (born in the US to Trinidadian parents, he grew up in the Bahamas), one which "lays bare themes of race and sexuality in a parodic recasting of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises transported to the West Indies." Three childhood friends from Trinidad meet up by chance in New York City and, fueled by alcohol, decide to return "home" for Carnival. Short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Caribbean and Canadian region. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-802170056.

New York: Grove Press, (2005). SIGNED first edition - The third novel by this award winning writer from the Caribbean (born in the US to Trinidadian parents, he grew up in the Bahamas), one which "lays bare themes of race and sexuality in a parodic recasting of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises transported to the West Indies." Three childhood friends from Trinidad meet up by chance in New York City and, fueled by alcohol, decide to return "home" for Carnival. Short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Caribbean and Canadian region. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-802170056.

New York: Henry Holt, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel by this award winning writer, one which tells the life stories of two West Indian women in their own voices: Lilla, the white mistress of a dilapidated colonial mansion, and Vel, the Black servant who has been her only companion for ten years. The two women have always treated each other with a distant formality, but when Vel finds herself pregnant, Lilla puts her to bed in her own bedroom and finds herself caring for her. Praise from Christina Garcia, Rosario Ferre, Steven Dixon and Robert Olen Butler (who calls this an extraordinary and enduring work of art.) Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 399 pp. ISBN: 0-805049258.

New York: Orchard Books / Franklin Watts, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - Nine short stories by this award-winning writer and poet. Stories about children in contemporary Jamaica, written for older children and young adults. 148 pp. ISBN: 0-531057454.

New York: HarperCollins, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of six short stories for young readers, set in Jamaica.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. First edition - Collection of poetry by this Jamaican-born writer. The poems deal with the colonized and the colonizer, with slavery and life in Africa and the new world.

New York: HarperCollins, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of six short stories for young readers, set in Jamaica.

New York: Harper Collins, (1994). In 1807, at the height of the slave trade, Ajeemah and his son, Atu, are kidnapped by slave traders and shipped to Jamaica, where they are separated and must build new lives. A moving story for older children by this award-winning Jamaican writer, this book received the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award , was named a Notable Children's Book of 1993 and many other awards. 83 pp. ISBN: 0-064405230.

London: Chatto & Windus / Hogarth Press, (1984). First edition - An anthology which focuses on poetry by writers born in the West Indies but who came to England to live. Contributors include John La Rose, Andrew Salkey, Wilson Harris, Lynton Kwesi Johnson, Frederick D'Aguiar, Grace Nichols and many others. Introduction by Berry, notes on contributors. xxvii, 212 pp. ISBN: -070112797X.

New York: Penguin, (1987.). First book by the nephew of V. S. Naipul, a collection of short stories set either in the author''s native Trinidad or dealing with Trinidadian immigrants in Canada. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0089357.

New York: New Directions, (1995). First edition - First US appearance of this collection by this Barbadian poet. Winner of the Premio Casa de las Americas when it was first published in 1978, this has been revised for this edition. Praise from Adrienne Rich who refers to his "dazzling inventive language, his tragic yet unquenchable vision." 69 pp. ISBN: 0-811213137.

New York: New Directions, (1993.). A collection of poems on the effects of the middle passage of slavery on the New World, which celebrate great musicians (Ellington, Bessie Smith and others), poets, heroes of the resistance, and Third World leaders. 120 pp. ISBN: 0-8112-12327.

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.

AuthorHouse, (2006). First edition - Collects poems of love, awareness, community involvement and culture by eighteen poets from across the Caribbean but now living in the Virgin Islands. The poets include Lavanta Thompson, Oren Hodge, Tremis Skeete, Linette Rabsatt, April T. Glasgow, V. Celeste Fahie, Earold O'Kieffe, Urenna Francis, Stephen Payne, Prudence George, Raja H. Pemberton, Jehu Nisbett, Quincy Lettsome, PH.D., Charles P. Bartholomew, Elton Hazel, Jerome Joseph, Sonjah Smith and Justin Hodge. Notes on contributors. 83 pp. ISBN: 978-1425947378.

New York: Kensington, 1999. Author's first novel, set in the dry hills of her native Trinidad.

New York: Teachers College Press, (1970). First edition - A book by this Trinidadian professor which focuses on Black poetry in the Antilles in the 1920s and 1930s, especially that of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti and Santo Domingo Notes, xiv, 106 pp.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated, with a substantial introduction and notes by Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith. A bilingual edition with the original French and English translation on facing pages. Born in Martinique, Cesaire studied in Paris where he met Leopold Senghor, and "discovered Africa" and began his lifelong dedication to the idea of Negritude. This collection begins with his important first book, written in 1939 upon his return to the Caribbean -Cahier du Retour au Pays Natal -Notebook of a Return to the Native Land. xv, 408 pp.

Poitiers, Vienne, France: Editions Pierre Seghers, (1966.). "Presentation par Lilyan Kesteloot, choix de textes, bibliographie, portraits, fac-similes." Text in French (texte en francais.) Contains an introduction and biographical information by Lilyan Kesteloot, includes a generous selection of poems by Cesaire, the Martinque-born poet. Illustrated with several photographs. Poetes d'Aujourd'Hui 85; 211 pp. Small square format.

New York: George Braziller, (1986). First edition - The first trade edition of this collection of 10 intertwined surrealistic poems by this Carribean poet, one of the foremost advocates of negritude, illustrated with spare drawings by Picasso, originally published in a limited edition of only 219 copies in 1950. Introduction and translation by Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith. Bi-lingual edition with the complete original French text at the end. 130 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 0-807611484.

Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first appearance in English of two very significant works by Cesaire: the long dramatic poem 'Et les chiens se taisaient' (And the Dogs Were Silent) and 'moi, laminaire' and other poems. 'And the Dogs Were Silent' appears only in English in this volume; the shorter poems are in both French and English. Introduction by A. James Arnold. A title in the Caraf Series which consists of works of Caribbean and African Literature translated from the French. 235 pages. ISBN: 0-8139-12563.

London: Granta, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated from the French and Creole by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokurov. Winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize. Traces one hundred and fifty years of post-slavery Caribbean history through the events of the Texaco quarter of Fort-de-France in Martinique. Translators' afterword, glossary. 401 pp. ISBN: 1-862070075.

New York: Pantheon, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated from the French and Creole by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokurov. Winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize. Traces one hundred and fifty years of post-slavery Caribbean history through the events of the Texaco quarter of Fort-de-France in Martinique. Translators' afterword, glossary. 401 pp. ISBN: 0-679-432353.

New York: Pantheon, (1998.) dj. Hardcover - Translated from the French and Creole by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokurov. AN 'intriguing riff on the police procedural' set during Carnival time in Fort-de-France, Martinque. Translators' afterword, glossary. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-679-432361.

New York: Pantheon, (1998.). First edition - Translated from the French and Creole by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokurov. AN 'intriguing riff on the police procedural' set during Carnival time in Fort-de-France, Martinque. Translators' afterword, glossary. 190 pp.