Search Results: West Indian Literature from Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB

(Miami: Self-published, 1989). First edition. 8vo., card covers, pp. 93; illustrated with coloured illustrations and b&w photos of basketball teams. A little worn at spine ends and with a sticker pull to the spine, else very good..

London: Hamish Hamilton, (1980). First edition. Octavo, black boards, pp. 215. Signed by Shiva Naipaul. Text concerns, the murder of a U.S. congressman, and the subsequent mass suicides known as the Jonestown massacre in Guyana, 1978. " .Shiva Naipaul's interest in the story lies not so much in the events themselves as in the ideas and environments that shaped those events, the corrupt and corrupting ideologies that enabled Jim Jones and the People's Temple to flourish and grow powerful in California and in the Co-operative Republic of Guyana under its Comrade Leader Forbes Burnham" [from the dust jacket blurb]. Embossed stamp of previous owner on half title, light foxing to top page edge, else near fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket, with the red printing faded to pale on the spine. Uncommon signed..

London: Phoenix House, [1998]. First edition. Kempadoo was born in England of Guyanese parents in 1966. She was brought up in Guyana, and at the time of this book's publication resided in Grenada. Fine in dust jacket..

London: University of London, (1966). First edition. Includes material by Wallcott, Lamming, Claude McKay, John Hearne and others. Spine slightly cocked, else very good in dust jacket..

London: Chatto & Windus, (1997). First edition.. London: Chatto & Windus, (1997). First edition. The author was born in London and brought up in Guyana. Fine in dust jacket. .

New York: Persea Books, (1993). First American edition. Guyanese novelist. Fine in dust jacket..

(N.p.: Self Published, 1973). First edition.. Soft cover. Very Good. 21.2 cm x 16.9 cm, stapled card covers, pp. 42; illustrations and cover design by Kolo. Poetry. Inscribed by the author, "One Love, Laksana M. Kwesi, 13/6/76". Rear cover states " Printed by Imprint for the Publisher Winston Daniel". Lasana Kwesi was an important figure in the Black Power movement and an early spoken-word poet in Trinidad & Tobago and the wider Caribbean. Card covers, upper corner of front cover is creased, covers shows light soiling, else very good.

London: New Beacon Books, (1988). First edition, paper issue. 21.5 cm x 14 cm, card covers, pp. 61. The uncommon third book by this important Jamaican poet. Near fine..

(New York): Viking, (1989). First American edition. Signed by Phillips. Remainder line to bottom edge, else near fine in a dust jacket which is somewhat darkened at the edges..

London: Bodley Head, 1975. First edition. Very good in dust jacket (slight wear at spine ends)..

London: Hamish Hamilton, (1983). Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition. Pale blue wraps, bumped at the spine and lower corners, else very good..

London: Collins, 1967. First English edition. Fine in an exceptionally bright, price-clipped dust jacket..

(London): Deutsch, (1971). First edition. Octavo, black boards, pp. [190]. The Trinidadian author's first novel. Fine in a price-clipped dust jacket. Uncommon..

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, (1990). First edition. Signed by the author. Fine in dust jacket..

New York: Persea Books, (1992). First American edition. Fine in dust jacket..

London: Faber & Faber, (1997). First edition. Signed by Phillips. Fine in dust jacket..

(London): Evans Brothers Limited, (1968). First edition. 8vo., ochre boards, pp. 208. Early book appearance of Ondaatje and signed by him at one of two poems contributed. Also signed by George Bowering at his contribution, "Moon Shadow". Anthology with representative prose and poetry from Australia, Canada, [Milton Acorn, Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Jay MacPherson, Tom Marshall, John Newlove, Alden Nowlan, David Wevill], Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad, Ceylon [Michael Ondaatje], Cyprus, Gambia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Maylasia & Singapore, Malta, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rhodesia, Sierra Leone, South Africans within the Commonwealth, Tanzania, Uganda, United Kingdom [Seamus Heaney], & Zambia. Near fine in dust jacket, with a small tear to edge of front panel, light edge wear, some lamination wrinkling and a faint internal stain at the foot..

London: Bodley Head, 1972. First edition. Small, faint rubberstamped address on endpaper, else near fine in a very good or better, price-clipped dust jacket, with a tiny tear to rear panel..

London: Oxford University Press, 1967. First edition. Octavo, brown cloth with a small slug (291) impressed in lower corner of rear cover, pp. 86. Signed by Brathwaite and dated in the year of publication. The poet's first book, and the first in a trilogy of works.. Lacks front free endpaper, else very good. No dust jacket..

New York: Persea Books, (1997). First American edition. Octavo, black boards backed in green cloth, pp. 260. Signed by Lovelace. The author was born in Trinidad. This novel was the winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for its region. Fine in dust jacket, with a few tiny crinkles to the spine ends, and a small crease at the top corner of the front flap..