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AFRICA: Roots of Jamaican Culture.
Edition: First edition, a trade paperback original.
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.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 87624More details Price: $75.00 -
PLANTATION PARADE: The Grand Manner in Louisiana.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, 1945. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Recounts the histories of the grand plantation houses of Louisiana, first those built by the French Creoles and then by American planters after the Louisiana Purchase Illustrated with black and white photographs of the plantation houses. One of Kane's most interesting books - this copy has been INSCRIBED by the author on the reverse of the front free endpaper. 342 pp, including an index. Illustrated endpapers.
Condition: Very good in green cloth with red illustration on the front cover, lettering on the spine (a bit of wear to the covers, usual light toning to the pages, but a tight and clean copy), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 86552More details Price: $40.00 -
LOST RIVER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. First edition - A Valentin St Cyr mystery, set in Storyville in New Orleans in 1913. 317 pp.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (some rubbing to the covers).
Book ID: 69026More details Price: $15.00 -
PALE SHADOW.
Edition: First printing.
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in 1940 New Orleans, this is the fourth novel featuring Wesley Farrell, nightclub owner, a mixed blood Creole "living as a white man in a Jim Crow environment." SIGNED on the title page. . 226 pp. Dust jacket art by Alan Fore. ISBN: 1890208663.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 63545More details Price: $30.00 -
BLOOD TO DRINK.
Edition: First printing.
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in 1939 New Orleans, this is the fourth novel featuring Wesley Farrell, nightclub owner, a mixed blood Creole "living as a white man in a Jim Crow environment." SIGNED on the title page. . 251 pp. Dust jacket art by Alan Fore. ISBN: 1890208337.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 63544More details Price: $30.00 -
DADDY'S GONE A-HUNTING.
Edition: First printing.
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in 1938 New Orleans, this is the third novel featuring Wesley Farrell, nightclub owner, a mixed blood Creole "living as a white man in a Jim Crow environment." SIGNED on the title page. . 306 pp. Dust jacket art by David Bowers. ISBN: 1890208175.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 63543More details Price: $30.00 -
BASTARD TONGUES: A Trail-Blazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hill & Wang, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which "focuses on languages so low in the pecking order that many people don't regard them as languages at all - Creole languages spoken by descendants of slaves and indentured laborers in plantation colonies all over the world. . . Bickerton has spent more than thirty years researching these languages on four continents and developing a controversial theory that explains why they are so similar to one another. . . a unique blend of memoir, travelogue, history, and linguistics primer." Double page map, glossary, index. suggested reading. 270 pp. ISBN: 0-8090-28174.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 56321More details Price: $17.50