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GAY'S YEAR ON SUNSET ISLAND, #1 in series.
Edition: Reprint.
Cleveland, Ohio: Goldsmith Publishing, (c 1926). Hardcover - The first novel in this two book series, in which Gay Annersley, niece and adopted daughter of the Jennings, tells of how - after her uncle's bank failed - another uncle took her to Sunset Island in the West Indies, where the Pirate Morgan was reputed to have buried his treasure. 242 pp.
Condition: Good overall in orange boards with black lettering (rather severe toning to the pages, corners bumped) , no dust jacket.
Book ID: 83934More details Price: $13.75 -
GAY'S YEAR AT HARFORD HALL.
Edition: Reprint.
Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Company, (1927). Hardcover - The second novel telling of the adventures of Gay Annersley, niece and adopted daughter of the Jennings, on Sunset Island in the West Indies and at her boarding school. 247 pp.
Condition: Good overall in beige cloth with dark brown lettering (rather severe toning to the pages, corners bumped, gift inscription) , no dust jacket.
Book ID: 67108More details Price: $13.75 -
THE BOOK OF JAMAICA.
Edition: Trade paperback.
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.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 37998More details Price: $12.00 -
NEWS FROM BABYLON: The Chatto Book of Westindian-British Poetry.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
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.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78495More details Price: $18.50 -
TREE OF LIFE, a Novel of the Caribbean
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Ballantine, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of several generations of a family from Guadeloupe - ranging from Panama to Harlem, from upper class Paris to the slums of Haiti. Translated by Victoria Reiter. Glossary. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-345-360745.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (slight sunning to spine of dj, and vertical crease)
Book ID: 86742More details Price: $28.50 -
TREE OF LIFE, a Novel of the Caribbean
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Ballantine, (1993.). Novel of several generations of a family from Guadeloupe - ranging from Panama to Harlem, from upper class Paris to the slums of Haiti. Translated by Victoria Reiter. Glossary. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-345-384695.
Condition: Good overall (some wear to the covers).
Book ID: 41083More details Price: $15.00 -
DISCOURSES ON THE PUBLICK REVENUES, and on the Trade of England. Which more immediately Treat of the Foreign Traffick of this Kingdom... Part II. To which is added, The late Essay on the East-India Trade. By the same Hand.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Good overall in original leather boards. Front board is detached and the leather binding is quite scuffed, but the contents are near fine - and this is a work deserving of restoration.
Book ID: 52891More details Price: $900.00 -
FLICKERING SHADOWS.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: Henry Holt, 1997. Highly praised first novel by this Barbados born author - Paule Marshall describes him as having 'taken life in a hardscrabble little West Indian village and, through the power o fhis vision and his lean poetic prose, made it speak for the oppressed the world over.'. ISBN: 0-805054723.
Condition: Fine in stiff illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 15411More details Price: $12.00 -
FLICKERING SHADOWS.
Edition: First printing.
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised first novel by this Barbados born author - Paule Marshall describes him as having 'taken life in a hardscrabble little West Indian village and, through the power o fhis vision and his lean poetic prose, made it speak for the oppressed the world over.' INSCRIBED on the title page with 'Peace, blessings, Agymah", and dated 4/30/99. ISBN: 1-56689-0497.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 15546More details Price: $50.00 -
FLICKERING SHADOWS.
Edition: First printing.
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised first novel by this Barbados born author - Paule Marshall describes him as having 'taken life in a hardscrabble little West Indian village and, through the power o fhis vision and his lean poetic prose, made it speak for the oppressed the world over.' SIGNED on the title page with the author's last name, and date 4/30/99. ISBN: 1-56689-0497.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 15545More details Price: $50.00 -
FLICKERING SHADOWS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1996. Highly praised first novel by this Barbados born author - Paule Marshall describes him as having 'taken life in a hardscrabble little West Indian village and, through the power o fhis vision and his lean poetic prose, made it speak for the oppressed the world over.'
Condition: Near fine in stiff illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 15410More details Price: $35.00 -
JAMAICA GALLERY.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, 1960. dj. A collection of drawings and designs by the author, accompanied by his impressions of Jamaica in the 1950s.
Condition: Very good+ in very good - dust jacket. Large format book.
Book ID: 23818More details Price: $20.00 -
AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Plume, 1992. SIGNED - West Indian writer's first book, a collection of 10 pieces, which originally appeared in the New Yorker. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-452-267544.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 19941More details Price: $15.00 -
LEGITIMATE ACTS AND ILLEGAL ENCOUNTERS: Law and Society in Antigua and Barbuda.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, (1994.). First edition - Examines 300 years of social life on Antigua and Barbados, moving from the period of slavery and emancipation under British colonial rule to independence. 367 pp. with index, notes and works cited. ISBN: 1-56098-3264.
Condition: Fine (as new.)
Book ID: 26469More details Price: $12.50 -
HORATIO NELSON.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of one of the best known figures in British history, based in part on previously unpublished diaries and other materials. This covers his life from boyhood adventures in the Arctic, to being a captain in Nicaraguan jungle, his first love affair with a married woman, to his scandalous relationship with Emma Hamilton and his death at Trafalgar at the height of his fame. Maps, 55 illustrations, chronology, bibliography, notes on sources and Nelsonian sites. xx, 367 pp. ISBN: 0-394-570561.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 34750More details Price: $20.00 -
TROPIC DEATH.
Edition: 2nd printing (just one month after the first)
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.
Condition: Fair condition only in dark brown cloth with gold lettering, black and gold illustrated endpapers (front hinge starting, several leaves were carelessly cut open, scattered foxing mostly in margins and some rubbing and shelfwear to the boards - but still a very readable copy of an important book .)
Book ID: 87966More details Price: $125.00 -
TROPIC DEATH.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Very good overall condition in black cloth with gold lettering, black and gold illustrated endpapers (tide marks to bottom margin of the pages, visible but not obtrusive and otherwise in better than average condition )
Book ID: 89727More details Price: $350.00 -
CALLALOO: Callaloo Volume 20, Number 4 Fall 1997: Eric Williams and the Postcolonial Caribbean.
Edition: First printing.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press 1997. SIGNED first edition - A special issue devoted to the work of Dr Eric Williams, as an historian and a politician. SIGNED by George Lamming at his article "The Legacy of Eric Williams." Includes an excerpt from William's works, articles by Selwyn Cudjoe, Patricia Mohammed, William Darrity Jr, a select bibliography by Deborah Craig Nestor and more. Photograph. ix, pp 703-912. ISBN: 0161-2492.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (one corner bent.)
Book ID: 52898More details Price: $65.00