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90 Degrees of Shade: 100 Years of Photography in The Caribbeanby: Gilroy, Paul (Foreword)

90 Degrees of Shade: 100 Years of Photography in The Caribbean
by: Gilroy, Paul (Foreword)

Hardcover. US, Soul Jazz Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to laminated cover boards. Color and black and white pictures throughout. The image of the Caribbean is as much a creation of the West as it is the result of its population's incredibly complex identity. A melting pot of races born of the 400-year slave trade--Africans, indigenous Americans and their French, Spanish, German, Dutch and English colonizers--the identity of the Caribbean stands at the intersection of tourism, colonialism and tropicality. This deluxe large-format volume features hundreds of fascinating and unique photographs that span 100 years of Caribbean history, culture, industry and more, as well as the subsequent diaspora of its people to America, England and elsewhere. The photographs show the many ways in which the region has been portrayed, from tropical backdrop of tourism and hedonism to colonial outpost and revolutionary threat in North America's own backyard.

Record # 352585

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Admirals of the Caribbeanby: Hart, F.R.G.S., Francis Russell

Admirals of the Caribbean
by: Hart, F.R.G.S., Francis Russell

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 203 pages. Tan and black cover with illustration. Some fraying on edges and spine. Title on spine label slightly chipped away. Small stain on back cover. Pages untrimmed. Some foxing Inside, but otherwise crisp, clean and contains b&w illustrations throughout.

Record # 852454

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Admirals of the Caribbeanby: Hart, F.R.G.S., Francis Russell

Admirals of the Caribbean
by: Hart, F.R.G.S., Francis Russell

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 203 pages. Tan and black cover with illustration. Some fraying on edges and spine. Faint smudges on spine. Pages untrimmed. Inside crisp, clean and contains b&w illustrations throughout.

Record # 852453

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At Last: A Christmas In The West Indiesby: Kingsley, Charles

At Last: A Christmas In The West Indies
by: Kingsley, Charles

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st US, 1871, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth stamped in gilt and black, 465 pages plus additional 2-page publisher's list at ear. Illustrated with full and partial page engravings. The author's memoirs and anecdotes of a Christmas season spent touring the West Indies; he visited such islands as Trinidad, Monserrat, thge Bocas Islands, etc. Previous owner's name on prelim blank page otherwise clean internally. Covers show some discoring of cloth in spots. Overall a clean, bright copy.

Record # 378380

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Banza, The: A Haitian Storyby: Wolkstein, Diane

Banza, The: A Haitian Story
by: Wolkstein, Diane

Hardcover. New York, Dial Books for Young Readers, 2nd pr., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 30 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A Haitian story illustrated by Marc Tolon Brown.

Record # 469968

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Bermudian Journey by: Struss, Karl

Bermudian Journey
by: Struss, Karl

Hardcover. Just Clicked Publications , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Features the photographic work of Academy Award winning Cinematographer Karl Struss taken when he visited Bermuda in the late 1950s. Mr. Struss first visited Bermuda in 1912. Enchanted with the island, he returned in the fall of 1913 to take more photographs. This led to his appointment in 1914 by the Bermuda Trade Development Board to take photographs for the Island's 1915-16 official tourists' guide, Bermuda: Nature's Fairyland. Mr. Struss did not return to Bermuda for more than 40 years, until the late 1950s when he came with his wife Ethel. His photographs from that trip show Bermuda on the cusp of social and economic change. The original transparencies were taken with Ektachrome colour film on a stereo camera.

Record # 372708

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Black Ivory; A History of British Slaveryby: Walvin, James

Black Ivory; A History of British Slavery
by: Walvin, James

Softcover. Washington DC, Howard University Press, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 365 pages. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, index. A comparative social overview of slavery in Britain, America, and the Caribbean during the colonial period. Walvin carefully examines the external pressures exerted on coastal communities in Africa for slaves, the gradual development of a slave trading system within Africa, and the transport of over twelve million Africans across the seas. Clean copy. Several pages with dog-ear creases.

Record # 381575

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British Slave Emancipation: the Sugar Colonies and the Great Experiment, 1830-1865 by: Green, William A.

British Slave Emancipation: the Sugar Colonies and the Great Experiment, 1830-1865
by: Green, William A.

Softcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, green paper wraps, 449 pages. A study of the West Indies in the mid-nineteenth century, this book draws together the experiences of more than a dozen different sugar colonies and forms them into a coherent historical account. The first part of the book examines the West Indies on the eve of emancipation in 1830-1865, a key passage in West Indian history. Green presents a clear general picture of the sugar colonies, and places British governmental policy toward the region in the context of Victorian attitudes toward colonial questions.

Record # 381563

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Cuba and Our New Possessionsby: Hall, A. D.

Cuba and Our New Possessions
by: Hall, A. D.

Hardcover. NY, Street & Smith, 1st, 1898, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Book is divided into 4 sections: Cuba, Porto Rico, The Philippines, & Hawaii. Each with a fold-out color map. 178, 171, 174, & 178 pages respectively. All maps present and in very good condition. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. The pale green covers suffer from rubbing and abrasions causing discoloration, fading. Internally very good.

Record # 602467

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Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugarby: Fernando Ortiz; Translator Harriet de Onis

Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar
by: Fernando Ortiz; Translator Harriet de Onis

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 312 pages plus index. Though written over fifty years ago, Cuban Counterpoint is recognized as one of the most important books of Latin American and Caribbean intellectual history. Treating tobacco and sugar both as agricultural commodities and as social characters in a historical process, he examines changes in their roles as the result of transculturation. Clean copy. Spine faded.

Record # 378631

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Doctor Bird - Three Lookin' Up Tales from Jamaica (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR)by: Hausman, Gerald and Ashley Wolff

Doctor Bird - Three Lookin' Up Tales from Jamaica (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR)
by: Hausman, Gerald and Ashley Wolff

Hardcover. New York, Philomel, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ashley Wolff and SIGNED BY WOLFF WITH A SKETCH OF DR. BIRD on front fly leaf.

Record # 371349

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Doctor Bird - Three Lookin' Up Tales from Jamaica (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR)by: Hausman, Gerald and Ashley Wolff

Doctor Bird - Three Lookin' Up Tales from Jamaica (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR)
by: Hausman, Gerald and Ashley Wolff

Hardcover. New York, Philomel, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Ashley Wolff and SIGNED BY WOLFF WITH A SKETCH OF DR. BIRD on front fly leaf.

Record # 301472

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Four Banks of the River of Space, The (SIGNED COPY)by: Harris, Wilson

Four Banks of the River of Space, The (SIGNED COPY)
by: Harris, Wilson

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1990, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 161 pages, black cloth, book slightly cocked. Dust jacket edgeworn with light chipping. INSCRIBED BY HARRIS ( "Joyce and Irving, with love, Wilson & Margaret 1990") on the title page to Joyce and Irving Adler. The book is heavily annotated and underlined in both ink and light pencil by Joyce who was a literary scholar who wrote two books on Harris.

Record # 404509

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Genealogies of Barbados Families: From Caribbeana and the Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Societyby: James C. Branow

Genealogies of Barbados Families: From Caribbeana and the Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society
by: James C. Branow

Hardcover. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering, 733 pages. Many of the early settlers of Barbados eventually moved to the mainland of North America and settled in Virginia, Georgia, the Carolinas, and other colonies. Records of Barbados families exist in a variety of places and indeed a great many have been written up and published in the turn-of-the-century journal "Caribbeana" and "The Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society". Unfortunately, back issues of these journals are no longer available, and copies can be found today in only a handful of libraries. With this present work, however, genealogists at last have access to both of these publications, for the book contains every article pertaining to family history ever published in these journals. The combined articles, reprinted here in facsimile, range from conventional genealogies and pedigrees to will abstracts and Bible records and refer to some 15,000 persons, all of whom are listed in the index. Besides the genealogies and family records, this compilation also contains a selection of notes on the connections between Barbados and New England families and four invaluable lists of Barbados Quakers.

Record # 397422

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Glimpses of La Yaguita: Street Scenes and Portraits from the Dominican Republicby: Orozco-Lang, Isaias

Glimpses of La Yaguita: Street Scenes and Portraits from the Dominican Republic
by: Orozco-Lang, Isaias

Hardcover. New York , El Leon Literary Arts, 1st Bilingual, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Preface By Julia Alvarez. 95 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Beautiful, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 810072

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Greedy Mariani and Other Folktales of the Antillesby:  Carter/Trina Schart HymanDorothy Sharp

Greedy Mariani and Other Folktales of the Antilles
by: Carter/Trina Schart HymanDorothy Sharp

New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 131 pages. Black & white illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman. Cover has edgewear. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping.

Record # 207001

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Haitian Artby: Stebich, Ute

Haitian Art
by: Stebich, Ute

Softcover. NY, Brooklyn Museum : exclusively distributed by H. N. Abrams, 1st, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Previous owner's blind stamp on front end paper. Light edgewear, rubbing and creasing to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460352

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Jules Pascin's Caribbean Sketchbookby: Pascin, Jules

Jules Pascin's Caribbean Sketchbook
by: Pascin, Jules

Austin, Texas, Marion Kooagler McKay Art Institute, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 106 pages. Illustrated with color, black & white sketches. Introduction by John Palmer Leeper. Dust jacket with edgewear to bottom edges, closed tear.

Record # 509451

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Merci Gonaives: A Photographer's Account of Haiti and the February Revolutionby: Lyon, Danny

Merci Gonaives: A Photographer's Account of Haiti and the February Revolution
by: Lyon, Danny

Softcover. Clintondale NY, Bleak Beauty, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages, b&w images by Lyon, softcover. Cover with minor wear, clean. Lyon's account of the fall of the Duvalier regime in Haiti produced an extraordinary visual and textual record of this historic series of events.

Record # 350735

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Nexus New York: Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolisby: Deborah Cullen, Antonio Saborit, et al.

Nexus New York: Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis
by: Deborah Cullen, Antonio Saborit, et al.

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 283 pages. An examination of the pioneering Caribbean and Latin American artists who resided in New York prior to WWII and shaped the American avant-garde Between 1900 and 1942, New York City was the site of extraordinary creative exchange where artists could share ideas in a global context. The swiftly changing urban landscape before and between the World Wars inspired the erosion of artistic boundaries and fostered a new climate of modernist experimentation. Nexus New Yorkfocuses on key artists from the Caribbean and Latin America who entered into dynamic cultural and social dialogues with the American-based avant-garde and participated in the development of a new modern discourse. Featuring both celebrated and little-known figures of this period, including Carlos Enriquez, Alice Neel, Marius de Zayas, Francis Picabia, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Jose Clemente Orozco, Matta, and Robert Motherwell, contributing authors also discuss the specific environments in which they flourished, including the Art Students League, the Siqueiros Experimental Workshop, and the New School for Social Research. A fascinating look at 20th-century modernism, this book provides the first view of the important encounters between artists of the Americas.

Record # 361954

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Old Havanaby: Edinger Claudio; Cabrera Infante Guillermo; Werneck Humberto

Old Havana
by: Edinger Claudio; Cabrera Infante Guillermo; Werneck Humberto

Hardcover. UK, Dewi Lewis, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 144 pages. Claudio Edinger's color photographs of Havana, Cuba. Clean. This is a photography book about Cuba unlike any you've seen before. Award-winning photojournalist Claudio Edinger gets inside the country, and shows us an unforgettable image of the people of Old Havana, living with harsh economic realities among the fading houses of the pre-Castro era. Yet the spirit of the people is one of steadfast hope, as South American writer Humberto Werneck, in his fascinating introduction, makes clear. The book also features text by exiled Cuban writer G. Cabrera Infante.

Record # 371210

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ORIG VINTAGE MAGAZINE COVER/ TRAVEL - SEPTEMBER 1938by: Pike (Illust.), John

ORIG VINTAGE MAGAZINE COVER/ TRAVEL - SEPTEMBER 1938
by: Pike (Illust.), John

1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Jamaican street scene, watercolor art by John Pike. 10 1/4 X 13 1/2", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Record # 413487

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Roaming through the West Indiesby: Franck, Harry A.

Roaming through the West Indies
by: Franck, Harry A.

Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth stamped in black, 486 pages, b&w photos by the author. A journal with bits of history of the West Indies in the early 20th century. It also covers some of the older history of the islands. There are some pictures of the ruins of Christophe's palace of Sans Souci, and of Cuba's new presidential palace. Bookplate and name on front endpapers otherwise clean.

Record # 378383

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Santo Domingo: Past & Present with a Glance at Haytiby: Hazard, Samuel

Santo Domingo: Past & Present with a Glance at Hayti
by: Hazard, Samuel

Hardcover. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1st, 1873, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 511 pages. Hardcover with gilt and black lettering on front and spine. Fraying on corners. Heavy soil on top page block. Illustrations and maps. Gutter crack on page 176.

Record # 354210

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Selected Poemsby: Walcott, Derek

Selected Poems
by: Walcott, Derek

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus & Company, 1st US, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 85 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. His first book of poetry to be published in the United States.

Record # 404510

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Sleepers of Roraima, The: A Carib Trilogy (SIGNED)by: Harris, Wilson

Sleepers of Roraima, The: A Carib Trilogy (SIGNED)
by: Harris, Wilson

Softcover. London, Faber and Faber, Uncorrected proof, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 81 pages, b&w drawings by Karen Usborne, INSCRIBED BY WILSON to Irving and Joyce (Adler) on the title page and dated August 1970. Wilson has also added 3 titles to the list of his previously published books on the opposite page. Joyce Adler wrote several books on Caribbean literature and Harris. She has marked up this book in pencil and pen with underlining and marginal notes. This edition published before the hardcover printing. Peach color wrappers faded..

Record # 404523

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The Drum and the Hoe: Life and Lore of the Haitian Peopleby: Courlander, Harold

The Drum and the Hoe: Life and Lore of the Haitian People
by: Courlander, Harold

Softcover. Berkeley, University of California, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 371 pages, b&w illustrations. A bright, clean copy with sunning to spine.

Record # 378632

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The Haitian People by: Leyburn, James G

The Haitian People
by: Leyburn, James G

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press., 4th pr., 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth covers, black lettering on spine, 342 pages. Endpapers map, foreword by the author; includes: caste and class, religion, sex relations & home life, politics and economcs, and modern Haiti, notes & bibliography, index. Clean copy.

Record # 378630

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The Story of the Jamaican Peopleby: Philip Sherlock/ Hazel Bennett

The Story of the Jamaican People
by: Philip Sherlock/ Hazel Bennett

Softcover. Kingston, Ian Randle Publishers, 1st pbk, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 434 pages with index. The book traces the African ancestral line of Black Jamaicans through to the influence of Asian, European & Spanish rule of the island throughout the ages, culminating with early English white settlers, forging 2-types of Jamaican People. Clean, like new.

Record # 387916

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Wilson Harrisby: Maes-Jelinek, Hena

Wilson Harris
by: Maes-Jelinek, Hena

Hardcover. Boston, Twayne Publishers, 1st, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages, green cloth covers. A scarce study of the Caribbean writer which has been heavily annotated and underlined by Joyce Adler, the previous owner. Adler was a literary scholar and published two books on Harris herself.

Record # 404508

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