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A CASUAL BRUTALITY (signed ARC)
Edition: First US Edition
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1988. ADVANCE READING COPY in glossy pictorial card covers. (viii), 378, (6) pp. Book leaned; light soiling to page edges; soft corner crease to first three leaves; spine creased from reading; VG otherwise. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title page in 1992. The author's well-received first novel and second book, about a West Indian man of East Indian extraction "who becomes caught in the web of political disintegration on a Caribbean island". Bissoondath, the nephew of V.S. Naipaul, emigrated from Trinidad to Canada in 1973. First published 1988 in Canada and the UK, the rear cover gives a January, 1989, US publication date.; Signed by Author
Book ID: 6955More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
A Guide to the Birds of the West Indies
Edition: First printing
Priceton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. Octavo, green boards. pp (511). Colour illustrations, index. Very small bruise to one outer corner of cover, else fine in fine jacket. 0691087369
Book ID: 46337More details Price: USD $28.95 USD $26.06 -
African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean
Book ID: 47649More details Price: USD $10.95 USD $9.86
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BOER PRISONERS OF WAR IN BERMUDA
Devonshine, Bermuda: The Bermuda College, 1981. Second edition, revised. Card covers. pp (14), 126, [2]. Maps, photos. Name label and ink signature at front, else fine. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced; Octavo
Book ID: 50432More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
CASE OF CUBA. WITH A LETTER FROM JOHN D. SHERWOOD, ESQ., ON THE RIGHT OF RECOGNITION.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 31025More details Price: USD $85.00 USD $76.50 -
COLUMBUS NEVER CAME
Edition: First Edition
London: Jarrolds, 1963. Inscribed by Author; Inscribed by the author in 1967 on the title page. Blue cloth, endpapers maps. 240 pp + many plates. Fine in very nearly fine jacket. Author makes the case that Columbus didn't first land on San Salvador but on one of the Caicos Islands nearby. Much Bahamas history.; Signed by Author
Book ID: 10905More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
IAN FLEMING INTRODUCES JAMAICA
Edition: First printing
London: Deutsch, 1965. Tall narrow octavo, orange cloth, endpaper maps. Orange ink gift inscription on title page, else fine in fine jacket. Contains a 10 page Introduction by Fleming, whose second home was in Jamaica for many years. Also a contribution by novelist John Hearne. Many lovely colour photos of a lovely country. ; Octavo
Book ID: 48565More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
Island: Fact and Theory in Nature
Edition: First printing
Book ID: 47096More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
LEGENDS OF THE BOCAS Trinidad
Edition: First printing
Book ID: 46884More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity (Organisms and Environments)
Edition: First printing
Book ID: 46562More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
MAFOOTA
Edition: First printing
London: Hurst & Blackett, 1907. Octavo, stamped in gilt and light blue. pp [8], 329, [3, ads] + 8 photo plates. Nicks and fraying to ends of lightly sunned spine; one inch cloth split to top front joint; soft vertical spine crease; bump and rubbing to one outer corner; light toning to text paper; 1907 ink name inside front cover; in all, a good, sound copy, tight in the binding, text clean and unworn. A novel of Jamaica by this prolific British author. The plates are photos of Jamaican scenes.
Book ID: 38710More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46