Jamaica
Pure running a life story
London: Hackney Reading Centre at Centerprise, 1982. 64p., large print (aimed at a newly-literate adult readership), b&w snapshot photography, 8.4x5.7 inch photographic wraps; a bit rubbed, paper slightly toned, else a very good copy. Ms Shore always wished to write a book, from the time she emigrated from Jamaica to..... More
Cat.No: 172122
The plural society in the British West Indies
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965. Hardcover. xvii, 359p., first US edition, very good hardcover in somewhat soiled and shelfworn dj. More
Cat.No: 60027
Martin Larwin
New York: Pageant Press, 1954. Hardcover. 137p., first edition, lightly worn dj with some tape repairs at edges, else very good. Spence, an Afro-Jamaican author and the principal author, creates an adventure story with a California protagonist who travels to the Caribbean, then returns to Southern California. More
Cat.No: 103547
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Just Add Nauseum [sic; nauseam]
Vista, CA: What were you thinking? Press, 2006. Paperback. 103p., softbound in 8.5x5.5 inch color wraps, a good clean copy. Good short pieces on traumas from childhood to manhood, too few and miscellaneous to have cobbled into a novel. Collection of essays. "This is one of 100 copies printed. In..... More
Cat.No: 132571
Mental Eye-Roglyphics
New York: Sun Ra Son Productions, 2001. Trade Paperback. 112p., wraps, inscribed by author. Poetry by the Jamaican-born Brooklyn writer (with a BS in Accounting). More
Cat.No: 129481
Jamaica and voluntary laborers from Africa, 1840-1865
Kingston: Institute of Jamaica, 1974. Hardcover. v, 211p., first printing, Very good in bit edgeworn dj. Presswork and binding by the University of Florida, imprimatur altered for title page, spine and dj. More
Cat.No: 85012
Claude McKay; a Black poet's struggle for identity.
Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1992. Hardcover. xii, 235p., very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 25301
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[extra-illustrated.] The Narrative of General Venables, with an Appendix of Papers Relating to the Expedition to the West Indies and the Conquest of Jamaica, 1654-1655. Edited for the Royal Historical Society by C.H. Firth
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. Hardcover. [Copperplate map fixed to pastedown]; xli, 180p., two maps described below, hardbound first edition in cinnamon-brown cloth boards, 8.5x6.5 inches, eccentric and rather beautiful book design: smartly framed in blind and gilt, with an onlaid spine decoration (armorial). Signatures opened neatly throughout, fine..... More
Cat.No: 277603
Constitutional Change in the British West Indies 1880-1903 With Special Reference to Jamaica, British Guiana, and Trinidad
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970. Hardcover. xiii, 331p., black cloth boards gilt in glossy blue dust jacket, a very good clean copy. Author treats of Black people as 'Negroes', 'creoles' and 'coloured'. More
Cat.No: 228943
Documents of West Indian History: From the Spanish Discovery to the British Conquest of Jamaica
Buffalo, NY: EWorld Inc., 1994. Paperback. xxxv, 310p., wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, old price sticker on rear wrap else very good condition. Williams was Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago from 1961 to 1981. More
Cat.No: 271458
Jamaica boy
Kingston, Jamaica: Antilles Book Company, 1981. Paperback. 316, [i]p., paperback original, front cover has a small corner chip at lower left, otherwise mildly rubbed, pages toned. Novel by the prominent broadcaster popularly known as ""Uncle Neville." More
Cat.No: 190426
Jamaikan buru: Saitei de saikona karibu no rakuen ジャマイカン・ブルー : 最低で最高なカリブの楽園 [Jamaican Blue: the Worst and the Best Caribbean Paradise]
Tokyo: Besutoserazu ベストセラーズ, 1999. Paperback. 191 p., very good in wraps, text in Japanese. Records Yamaguchi’s multiple travels to Jamaica as a photojournalist. Copiously illustrated with numerous color drawings and photographs. He narrates his experiences working in Jamaica, the difficulties and dangers this presents, as well as his visits to..... More
Cat.No: 171742