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VODOUN: A Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thriller involving the death and disappearance of a Haitian politician, and a murder that looks like a voodoo ritual. Set in Virginia and in Haiiti. 349 pp. ISBN: 0-688-105637.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (some sunning to spine of dj, book appears unread)
Book ID: 62498More details Price: $21.00 -
CARIBBEAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Massive novel of the history of islands of the Caribbean. Suggestions for further reading. 672 pp plus 1 p on the facts of the islands. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-394-565614.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 53212More details Price: $20.00 -
CARIBBEAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Massive novel of the history of islands of the Caribbean. Suggestions for further reading. 672 pp plus 1 p on the facts of the islands. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-394-565614.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 24358More details Price: $18.50 -
CARIBBEAN.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Random House, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Massive novel of the history of islands of the Caribbean. Suggestions for further reading. SIGNED by Michener on a special bookplate on the first blank page - "commenorating the North American inaguaral cruise of Crown Princess." 672 pp plus 1 p on the facts of the islands. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-394-565614.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77454More details Price: $35.00 -
BLACK MAGIC.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Very good in decorative paper covered boards with a black cloth spine, and gold paper label on spine. Some rubbing and wear to edges of boards, but overall a tight and clean copy, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 87946More details Price: $40.00 -
BLACK FIRE: A Story of Henri Christophe.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Longmans, Green and Co (1957, c 1940) dj. Hardcover - A fictionalized account of Christophe, a leader of the Haitian Revolution, who was born a slave in 1767 and died a king, written for older children and young adults.Illustrated with drawings at the head of each chapter by Avery Johnson, who also illustrated the wraparound dust jacket. Author's note, bibliography. xii, 276 pp.
Condition: Ex-library in poor condition with the usual markings, and significant wear (tear to the margins of several pages, not affecting the text, missing front endpaper) in a good dust jacket (spine label)
Book ID: 79257More details Price: $17.50 -
AM I ALONE HERE? Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Catapult, (2016). SIGNED first edition - A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in Criticism. A collection of essays about reading, writing, and living. Orner reads and writes everywhere he finds - in a hospital cafeteria, a coffee shop in Albania, the Lizzie Borden story in Fall River or a crowded bus in Haiti. Among the many writers he discusses are Isaac Babel and Zora Neale Hurston, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, Yasunari Kawabata, Saul Bellow, Mavis Gallant, John Edgar Wideman, William Trevor, and more. SIGNED on the title page. Author and title index. 316 pp. ISBN: 978-1936787258.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self flaps.
Book ID: 86047More 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 -
SHROVETIDE IN OLD NEW ORLEANS.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Doubleday, 1978. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The intellectual history of Ishmael Reed in essay form - a wide ranging group of essays, some autobiographical, others dealing with issues like getting published, and others on such topics as Haiti, Charlie Parker, artists Betye Saar and Doyle Foreman, Mardi Gras, Chester Himes and more. vii, 293 pp. ISBN: 0-385-056885.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (light remainder spray on bottom edge, otherwise very tight and clean).
Book ID: 34590More details Price: $35.00 -
SHROVETIDE IN OLD NEW ORLEANS.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Doubleday, 1978. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED. The intellectual history of Ishmael Reed in essay form - a wide ranging group of essays, some autobiographical, others dealing with issues like getting published, and others on such topics as Haiti, Charlie Parker, artists Betye Saar and Doyle Foreman, Mardi Gras, Chester Himes and more. vii, 293 pp.. ISBN: 0-385-056885.
Condition: Very good in a somewhat worn dustjacket (stamp on bottom edge of textblock. Dj is pc, rubbed, has some loss of paper at ends of spine,and a tape repair on the outside of the spine.)
Book ID: 9213More details Price: $37.50 -
THE CHARLEMONTE CREST: A Mystery of Modern Haiti.
Edition: Later printing (originally published in 1930)
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1948. Hardcover - The historical mystery in this story is based partially on stories which Augusta Seaman had been told about her grandfather, who was smuggled out of Haiti after the revolution led by Toussaint L'Overture, while her depiction of modern Haiti is due to a visit she and her second huband, Frank Freeman, made to the island. Illustrated by Manning de V. Lee with a black and white illustration preceding the first chapter. A title in the Young Moderns Library series. Slim format, plain endpapers. 228 pp.
Condition: Good condition in green boards with black lettering on spine (usual toning to the pages, some wear to ends of spine), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 70608More details Price: $21.50 -
LAND OF HUNCHBACKS.
Edition: First printing.
Quebec: Cidihca, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her first novel, a story of a summer in Haiti in the 1950's, weaves together Haitian folktales, proverbs, song and history. Striking dustjacket painting by Wilson Bigaud. ISBN: 2-920862-154.
Condition: INSCRIBED by the author on the title page and dated in 1989. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 25082More details Price: $35.00 -
LAND OF HUNCHBACKS.
Edition: First printing.
Quebec: Cidihca, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her first novel, a story of a summer in Haiti in the 1950's, weaves together Haitian folktales, proverbs, song and history. Striking dustjacket painting by Wilson Bigaud. ISBN: 2-920862-154.
Condition: INSCRIBED by the author on the title page and dated in 1989. Very good in near fine dust jacket (front hinge cracked.)
Book ID: 25314More details Price: $28.00 -
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 -
THE RAINY SEASON: Haiti Since Duvalier.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A fascinating first-hand account of events in Haiti beginning 4 days before the ouster of President-for-Life, Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, and the following weeks and months - A story of change and how liberation did not lead to reform but to chaos and stagnation. SIGNED on the title page, and uncommon thus. Bibliography, index. 427 pp. ISBN: 0-224025635.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37547More details Price: $40.00 -
THE RAINY SEASON: Haiti Since Duvalier.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A fascinating first-hand account of events in Haiti beginning 4 days before the ouster of President-for-Life, Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, and the following weeks and months - A story of change and how liberation did not lead to reform but to chaos and stagnation. SIGNED on the title page. Maps. Bibliography, index. 427 pp. ISBN: 0-671-641867.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dustjacket (price-clipped, some sunning to the spine of the dj.).
Book ID: 61088More details Price: $32.50
