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A CASUAL BRUTALITY
Edition: First printing
Book ID: 7243More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
A HOT COUNTRY (proof)
Edition: First printing
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1985. Advance uncorrected proof in light blue card covers. Tiny abrasion to front cover, ink publication date (26 September), and price (GBP 8.50) on front cover, else fine. The author's last novel, set in a fictional Guyana.
Book ID: 46730More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
A STATE OF INDEPENDENCE
Edition: First US printing
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. Cloth & boards. Sunning to extreme top edge of spine cloth, else fine. Price-clipped jacket lightly rubbed to rear panel, light tanning to upper and lower edges of flaps, else fine. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (simple ink signature to title page). Second novel of this noted St. Kitts author.; Signed by Author
Book ID: 7797More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
A TURN IN THE SOUTH (proof)
Edition: First US Edition
New York: Knopf, 1989. Advance uncorrected proof in white card covers. Front cover has small corner creases, rear cover has faint dust soiling; near fine. Ink name of a Canadian author and impresario who brought him to Toronto for a reading.
Book ID: 37450More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
A WAY IN THE WORLD: a sequence (signed ARC)
Edition: First US Edition
New York: Knopf, 1994. ADVANCE READING COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. White card covers in white card clipcase, both with embossed lettering in blind. Fine copy. Slipcase has soft creases to spine, else fine. Fiction by the Nobel Laureate from Trinidad. Naipaul doesn't sign a lot of books.; Signed by Author
Book ID: 37449More details Price: USD $85.00 USD $76.50 -
A WAY IN THE WORLD (ARC)
Edition: First printing
London: Heinemann, 1994. Advance reading copy in colour pictorial card covers. Book a bit leaned; corner crease to rear cover; light soiling to page edges; very soft crease to first two leaves; reviewer's very light pencil notes to rear blank page and light marginal pencil marks in text; light soiling to lower page edges; light damp stain to edge of lower outer corners (no penetration into text margins); VG otherwise.
Book ID: 8620More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
A WAY IN THE WORLD (proof)
Edition: First US printing
New York: Knopf, 1994. Advance uncorrected proof in grey card covers. "A Novel" on a printed slip taped to the front cover. With ink owner name and 1999 date of a Canadian author and impresario who brought Naipaul for a reading. Fine copy.
Book ID: 37436More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
AT THE FULL AND CHANGE OF THE MOON: a novel
Edition: First printing
New York: Grove Press, 1999. Black boards. Fine in fine jacket, with label of a Canadian literary agency at front. Trinidadian-Canadian poet and novelist. ; Octavo
Book ID: 52736More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
AT THE FULL AND CHANGE OF THE MOON: a novel
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: Knopf Canada, 1999. Black boards. Fine in fine jacket. Trinidadian-Canadian poet and novelist.; Octavo
Book ID: 10668More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
BELIZEAN POETS
Belize City: Government Information Service, no date (1961?). Octavo, pp 35, i-vii, stapled in cream card covers. Staples slightly rusty; 1 cm split at head of spine, soft creases, VG. The last section contains photos and notes on the authors. According to the introduction by Education Minister J.W. Macmillan, he believed this to be the first anthology of Belize poetry published in that country. Very scarce. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 45633More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
BELIZEAN POETS VOLUME TWO (cover title)
Belize City: Government Information Service, no date (1965?). Squarish 12mo, pp 69 stapled in white illustrated card covers. Last leaf is creased, with insect holes to bottom margin (no text lost). Contains a Foreword by Premier George Price and the text of a tribute he read at the National Memorial Service on 1 Sept., 1965. This may be the second anthology of Belize poetry published in that country. Scarce. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 45634More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
BEYOND THE DRAGON'S MOUTH (proof copy)
Edition: First printing
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF. Light blue non-pictorial card covers. Soft creases to inner corners, inner edge of front cover, else a fine copy.; Octavo
Condition: Very Good
Book ID: 11484More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
BEYOND THE DRAGON'S MOUTH (proof copy)
Edition: First printing
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF. Light blue non-pictorial card covers. Faint spine yellowing, very soft cover creases, VG+ otherwise.; Octavo
Condition: Very Good
Book ID: 44829More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
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 -
CAMBRIDGE (proof copy)
Edition: First US printing
New York: Knopf, 1992. Advance uncorrected in non-pictorial pink card covers. Soft vertical crease to front cover and first 4 leaves; crease to fore margin of rear cover; else fine. A novel of the British West Indies in the 19th century by this noted author from St. Kitts.
Book ID: 9734More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
CATHEDRAL OF THE AUGUST HEAT. Translated by Bridget Jones
Edition: First edition in English
London: Readers International, 1982. Yellow boards. Text paper tanned, as always, else fine in fine jacket. A novel of Haiti.
Book ID: 41419More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
CHILDHOOD
Edition: First printing
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1998. Card covers with flaps. Fine copy. The author's second book and first novel. Winner of the Chapters First Novel Award and the Trillium Prize. Alexis was born in Trinidad but grew up in Ottawa. ; Octavo
Book ID: 53324More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
CHOICE OF STRAWS.
Edition: First printing
London: Bodley Head, 1965. Brown boards. Front free endpaper has a gilt oval new bookstore ticket to lower inner corner and a soft corner crease to upper outer corner, else fine in fine, price-clipped dust jacket, with art by Raymond Williams. A lovely copy of this uncommon title, the third novel of this West Indian author of TO SIR, WITH LOVE.
Book ID: 15774More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
COASTLAND. New and Selected Poems (1973-1987).
Edition: First Edition
Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1989. 119 pp, in glossy card covers (not issued in hardcover). Sunning to spine and inner margin of front cover, else a fine copy. This second state crudely corrects the errors on the half-title and title pages. Guyanese-Canadian author. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.
Book ID: 16552More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
COASTLAND. New and Selected Poems (1973-1987).
Edition: First printing
Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, (1989). 119 pp. Sunning to spine and upper and inner margins of front cover. First state, with error on half-title and title pages. Poetry by the noted Guyanese-Canadian author. Not issued in hardcover. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.
Book ID: 19550More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46