McClelland & Stewart, 2010. Card covers. A fine copy of this book of poetry. Brand was Toronto's Poet Laureate 2009-12. The present book won a Griffin Poetry Prize. The book is dedicated to Constance Rooke.; Octavo

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.

Toronto: NC Press, 1977. Black boards. 95 pp. Fine copy. Black jacket has light rubbing at spine tips, one inch creased tear to front panel, VG otherwise. Only book from this Trinidadian-Canadian author who has became fairly well known in Canada as a civil rights and immigration lawyer. The drawings are by a Jamaican-Canadian artist. The hardcover issue is scarce.

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.

London: Deutsch, 1973. Advance uncorrected proof of the author's second book, a winner of the Whitbread Award. Red non-pictorial paper covers. Spine lightly sunned; crease to upper outer corner of front cover and early leaves; VG otherwise. Uncommon. Set in his native Trinidad.; Octavo

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.

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.

London: Faber, 1961. Octavo, greenish boards. Light yellowing and quite minor foxing to page edges; slight foxing to endpapers; else fine, no owner names. Dust jacket has a small very narrow chip to top of front spine fold; yellowing and foxing to flap folds; light yellowing to spine; minor soiling to rear panel; VG otherwise, flap price intact, attractive. Noted Guyanese author's second novel, the second volume of The Guyana Quartet. Uncommon in first printing.

London: Faber, 1985. Inscribed by Author; Octavo, black boards. Slight yellowing to page edges, text paper lightly toned, else fine in fine jacket. Collects the novels PALACE OF THE PEACOCK (1960), THE FAR JOURNEY OF OUDIN (1961), THE WHITE ARMOUR (1962), and THE SECRET LADDER (1963). This edition adds an eight page author's "A Note on the Genesis of THE GUYANA QUARTET. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to a Canadian author and impresario who brought him to Toronto for a reading "____, every good wish. Toronto October 1988". Laid in is a short ANS on hotel note paper dated 19 October to the inscribee talking about an interview and other things, Inscribee's ink name and 1988 date at front. ; Signed by Author

London: Heinemann, 1969. Uncorrected proof. Octavo, non-pictorial card covers. Book just a little leaned; bit of soiling to covers; spine a bit yellowed, with a 1.5 inch split at lower rear spine fold neatly repaired; page edges yellowed, with a bit of foxing; in all, a good, uncreased copy of the Trinidad-born Guyanese poet's first novel. It won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize from the Royal Society of Literature for best regional novel The book itself is uncommon in first editon and this proof is very scarce. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.

London: Deutsch, 1971. Advance uncorrected proof in greenish-yellow printed wrappers. pp 174, [2]. Vertical spine creases, as issued, else a fine copy. A scarce advance issue of this novel for young people by this Jamaican-Canadian author.

New York: Viking, 1958. Cloth & boards. Small corner crease to two leaves; very light sunning to brown top page edges; else fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. Second novel of this important Jamaican author in uncommonly nice condition, the yellow jacket unfaded. A story of the Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya.

New York: Viking, 1958. Cloth & boards. Ink owner name at front, slightly yellowing to page edges, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has tiny chips and nicks at ends of lightly sunned spine, VG otherwise. Second novel of this important Jamaican author in uncommonly nice condition, the yellow jacket unfaded. A story of the Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya.

London: Deutsch, 1967. Octavo, maroon boards. Small light damp spot to foot of spine, else fine. Jacket has soft, scarcely noticable crease to foot of spine, else fine, no chips, clips, or tears, the white background bright and fresh. A very nice copy of this novel set in London by the reknowned Trinidadian author.

London: Faber, 1997. Black boards. Fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has light rubbing to surface gloss, else fine, flap price intact. 0571190731

London: Faber, 1988. Inscribed by Author; Later printing (first was in 1960). 12mo, card covers. Text paper a little toned, else a fine, crisp copy. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to a Toronto writer and impresario who brought him to Toronto for a reading "_____, Good luck with your literary project in Toronto. Wilson. 19 Oct., 1988". With the inscribee's tidy ink name and 1988 date on front free endpaper. This was his first novel. ; Signed by Author

Kingston, Jamaica: Univeristy of the West Indies, 1956. Octavo, maroon pictorial boards printed in yellow. (120) pp. Photos in text. Inscribed by the editor in 1956. Staples rusty at rear, else fine. Yearbook of University College, University of the West Indies.

Toronto: Thomas Allen, 2002. Black boards. Dimples to spine, else fine. Jacket (no Giller sticker) has soft creases at top of rear panel, else fine. A novel from the noted Barbadian-Canadian author, it won Canada's coveted Giller Prize. Set in the West Indies. 1.5 kg parcel; Octavo 0887621104

Toronto: Thomas Allen, 2002. Inscribed by Author; Octavo, black boards. Fine copy. Dust jacket (no Giller Prize sticker) has creases to front flap. light rubbing at head of spine, near fine. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page on 02 Oct., 2002. A novel from the noted Barbadian-Canadian author, it won Canada's coveted Giller Prize. Set in the West Indies. 1.5 kg parcel; Signed by Author 0887621104

Don Mills, Ontario: General Publishing, 1977. The simultaneous paper issue in card covers. Advance copy for review with slip taped. Corner crease to front cover, minor cover rubbing, VG otherwise.. A novel set in the West Indies by this noted Toronto author originally from Barbados.; Octavo 0773600604