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CALYPSOS, SYMPHONIES AND INCEST.
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Arawak Publishing House, 1974. Orange boards. (iv), 123 pp. Fine in fine jacket. The book is "a hard hitting, carefully constructed indictment of Western European society. The author utilizes the medium of music as a mirror with which to present some startling , disturbing and definitive statements on the status of women, and homosexuality. He shrewdly weaves a strong case against the social divisiveness of Western European music (classical music), in all cultures, and remarkably presents a new refreshing perspective of folk music, modern jazz, and calypso." - jacket flap. Author was born in Barbados and took up the formal study of the violin. After schooling in the USA, including post-graduate study at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, he immigrated to Canada in 1972.
Book ID: 9934More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
QUEST FOR EVIL.
Edition: First printing
New York: Vantage Press, 1988. Black boards. (viii), 72 pp. Fine in fine jacket. "QUEST FOR EVIL is a science fiction novel probing the supernatural and dealing with the evil that exists in our world and hangs over all of us...David Bentley, a prominent Michigan businessman, is kidnapped shortly after obtaining a rare book that, unbeknown to him, contains the secrets of Satanic power." - jacket flap. The author is from Barbados. A scarce vanity press horror novel.
Book ID: 9899More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
STANDING.
Edition: First printing
St. Michael, Barbados: Printed by Tropical Print Services, 1994. Octavo, (3)-(62) pp, stapled, in black & white glossy card covers. Fine copy. Poetry by a Barbados author.
Book ID: 11768More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
THE EMIGRANTS
London: Allison & Busby, 1980. New edition (previous UK edition in 1954). Black boards. Faint foxing to top page edges, else fine. Dust jacket has a band of light sunning to top margin of front panel, else fine. A novel of West Indian immigrants in Britain in the 1950's by the noted Barbados author.
Book ID: 6633More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
THE EMIGRANTS
London & New York: Allison & Busby, 1982. Inscribed by Author.; Octavo, card covers. Text paper lightly toned, else a fine copy. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to a noted Canadian Indian novelist "Especially for _____, Best Wishes, George Lamming, Atlantis, 1989". A later printing of the second novel of this noted Barbadian author. Uncommon signature. ; Signed by Author.
Book ID: 35519More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50