Caribbean

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.

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.

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..

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.

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.

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.

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.