New York: HarperPerennial, (1996.). Novel with explores the complexities of political life in the Caribbean and its racial conflicts. 336 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0977078.

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.

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.

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: 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.

New York: Macmillan, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second book for children, a story of grief, loss and friendship set on a Jamaican coffee plantation - a world the author knows well, since he once owned and ran one. 176 pp. ISBN: 0-027177815.

London: Ernest Benn Limited , (1978) dj. Hardcover - Reprinted many times, this is the author's best known novel, "founded on fact, of the West Indies of the early nineteenth century. . . Robert Rutherford is sent to the Islands to learn the planter's business from the bottom. He becomes an overseer at Rosehall, the property of a young widow, Mrs Palmer, whose three husbands have all died in curious circumstances." 255 pp. Photo on back of dust jacket is of Rosehall, now in ruins. ISBN: 0-510-199046.

New York: Harper & Row, (1964) dj. Hardcover first edition - An "account of Sir Hugh Foot's career as a British diplomat in some of the most troubled spots around the world" - including Palestine, Nigeria, Jamaica and Cyprus- in "an era when colonies are cutting loose from dependency to become fully fledged nations in their own right, and the bitterness of nationalism has erupted throughout the world along with the idealistic call to freedom." Illustrated with four cartoons and an inserted section of black-and-white photographs. Index. 256 pp.

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.

Detroit: Broadside Press, (1972). First edition - An interesting look at the pivotal role of McKay as a Black poet who moved away from the earlier tradition of poems written in dialect or influenced by Western classical literature. In his introduction, Gayle notes that not only did the Jamaican-born McKay bring a "race spirit and a race soul" but he also brought a "sensitivity sharpened by experiences of other lands and peoples" as well as a sense of immediacy and urgency. A title in the Broadside Critics Series. Footnotes, bibliography. 46 pp. ISBN: 0-910296766.

Detroit: Broadside Press, (1972). First edition - An interesting look at the pivotal role of McKay as a Black poet who moved away from the earlier tradition of poems written in dialect or influenced by Western classical literature. In his introduction, Gayle notes that not only did the Jamaican-born McKay bring a "race spirit and a race soul" but he also brought a "sensitivity sharpened by experiences of other lands and peoples" as well as a sense of immediacy and urgency. A title in the Broadside Critics Series. Footnotes, bibliography. 46 pp. ISBN: 0-910296766.

New York: Amistad / Harper Collins, (2008). First edition - A memoir by this Jamaican born-poet - an account of her mother's two lives - in the country at Harvey River where she was the privileged daughter of a large family, and in Kingston after her marriage where she raised nine children in "hard times." 285 pp.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2009. SIGNED hardcover - The author's second book, preceding his Booker Award winning "A Brief History of Seven Killings," the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the 18th century. SIGNED on the title page. 417 pp. ISBN: 978-1594488573.

Boston: Little Brown, 1960. dj. A collection of drawings and designs by the author, accompanied by his impressions of Jamaica in the 1950s.

Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1992. dj. Hardcover - A wide-ranging collection of Caribbean vignettes, historical, personal, and cultural. With photographs and suggestions for further reading. Map. Index, 324 pp. ISBN: 0-201-523965.

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: 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.

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.

New York: Arbor House, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, winner of The London Times/Jonathan Cape Young Writer's Award, the story of an extraordinary friendship between a young boy and a wise black Jamaican woman hired to care for him. Basis for the film of the same name featuring Whoopie Goldberg. Dustjacket praise by Ian McEwan, Gail Godwin and others. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-877957444.

New York: Arbor House, (1985.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, winner of The London Times/Jonathan Cape Young Writer's Award, the story of an extraordinary friendship between a young boy and a wise black Jamaican woman hired to care for him. Basis for the film of the same name featuring Whoopie Goldberg. Dustjacket praise by Ian McEwan, Gail Godwin and others. SIGNED on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-877957444.

New York: Arbor House, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, winner of The London Times/Jonathan Cape Young Writer's Award, the story of an extraordinary friendship between a young boy and a wise black Jamaican woman hired to care for him. Basis for the film of the same name featuring Whoopie Goldberg. Dustjacket praise by Ian McEwan, Gail Godwin and others. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-877957444.

London & Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1994. First edition - A title in the Caribbean Writers Series. First novel (second book) by this young writer who was born in Jamaica, described as 'a frank and sensitive novel exploring the complexity of homosexuality' set at in the late 1970's when a mysterious illness was just beginning to threaten the gay community. 139 pp. .

New York & London: Abelard-Schuman, (1959) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, historical fiction which moves from Wiltshire in 1685 to the New England frontier and Jamaica and the Bahamas. 256 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Dick Hart.

New York: St Martin's, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, the story of a young black man who goes to Jamaica for a reunion with his father whom he had not seen in 13 years. Dustjacket praise from Ntozake Shange. ISBN: 0-312-006888.

New York: St Martin's, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, the story of a young black man who goes to Jamaica for a reunion with his father whom he had not seen in 13 years. Dustjacket praise from Ntozake Shange. ISBN: 0-312-006888.

New York: Delacorte, (1974.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel published under this name, a classic espionage story, set in Jamaica in the Caribbean. 376 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon.