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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

This digital collection consists of scanned book jackets from the H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies rare book collection. This collection includes English language literature and non-fiction by Caribbean authors. The works in this collection are generally first editions, many published in Britain during the second half of the twentieth century.
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"Honorary white": a visit to South Africa
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A photograph of the author, E. R. Braithwaite, is on the jacket front.
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14 Jamaican short stories
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5 West Indian plays (front cover)
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A Jamaican schoolgirl
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Front cover illustration shows two young people shopping at an outdoor produce market.
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A Time ... and a season: 8 Caribbean plays
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A banana plantation in Guatemala
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Front and back cover illustrations depict various peoples of the world, and a variety of flora and fauna.
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A brighter sun: a novel
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The jacket front illustration shows a scene outdoors with a man and woman talking on a path, a young woman and man walking toward the viewer, and the back of a child. A house, trees and hills are in the background. The jacket back has a photograph of the author, Samuel Selvon.
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A destiny to mould: selected discourses by the Prime Minister of Guyana, Forbes Burnham
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A photograph of Forbes Burnham, Prime Minister of Guyana, is on the front cover.
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A double exile: African and West Indian writing between two cultures
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A flight of sparrows
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A high wind in Jamaica
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Jacket front illustration depicts palms tree bending in the wind, and a parrot being blown backwards by the wind.
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A history of Barbados
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A photograph of workers harvesting sugar cane is on the jacket front.
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A history of the Guyanese working people, 1881-1905
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Front cover image is a detail of the photograph "Water Street looking north", a street scene in Georgetown, British Guiana (Guyana).
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A history of trade unionism in Guyana, 1900 to 1961
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A literature in the making
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Front cover illustration shows a building with a brick fence in front of it. There is a small photograph of the author on the back cover.
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A morning at the office: a novel (book covers)
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Book covers for a work of fiction.
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A quality of violence
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Jacket front illustration shows two bare-chested muscular men fighting. A photograph of author Andrew Salkey is on the jacket back.
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A reader's guide to West Indian and Black British literature
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Front cover has three photographs: two people wearing costumes, a man with dreadlocks standing next to a sculpture, and two praying women wearing saris.
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A regency rascal
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Book jacket illustration shows Sam Lord's Castle, built in 1820 by the buccaneer Samuel Hall Lord in the parish of St. Philip, Barbados. The image is repeated on the jacket back.
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A sugar plantation in Jamaica
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Front and back cover illustrations depict various peoples of the world, and various flora and fauna.
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A swarthy boy
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A photograph of the author, Edgar Mittelhölzer, is on the jacket back flap.
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A tale from the rainforest
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Cover photograph shows rainforest treetops against the sky.
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A tale of three places
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The jacket front illustration represents three island locations. The one at the top is England, with an illustration of London's Houses of Parliament superimposed. At bottom left is an island with factories (Trinidad); at bottom right is the island of St. Lucia, with palm trees and a rain cloud releasing rain.
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A treasury of Jamaican poetry
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A tropical childhood, and other poems
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A voice at the workplace: reflections on colonialism and the Jamaican worker
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A photograph of Prime Minister of Jamaica Michael Manley among a group of people is on the jacket back.
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A young man's journey
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The jacket front photograph shows a silhouette of a man's head looking out over water as the sun sets. A photograph of the author's riverside encampment at Omai, Guiana, seen from the Essequebo River, is on the jacket back.
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Absolute beginners
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Jacket front photograph shows a city street with a young woman walking towards a young man standing on the sidewalk.
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Adventure in the Caribbean
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Jacket illustration shows an outdoor scene with a boy and girl who appear startled by a dog in their path, a boy being thrown from a rearing horse, and a cliffside roadway leading to a moonit church and cemetery on a hill.
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African writers talking: a collection of interviews
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Jacket front has photographs of nine African writers and lists the names of eighteen African writers.
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Afro-American folktales: stories from Black traditions in the New World
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Front cover illustration shows a group of laborers working with hoes in a field. Three figures with jars on their heads and two huts are behind them.
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Alan Bold, Edward Brathwaite, Edwin Morgan
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The cover photograph shows a detail of a Japanese lacquer box in the Maidstone Museum.
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All that glitters
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Jacket front illustration shows golden chains in front of an island landscape with palm trees, water and a golden moon in a dark sky.
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Amongst thistles and thorns
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Jacket front photograph shows a dry flower from a thistle. Jacket back flap has a photograph of the author, Austin C. Clarke.
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An absence of ruins
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Jacket front illustration shows the upper torso of a man, seen in profile.
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An area of darkness
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Jacket front has an organic design of leaves or petals on a dark ground. A photograph of author V. S. Naipaul is on the jacket back flap.
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An island is a world
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Jacket front illustration shows two men relaxing under palm trees by the sea. One watches a woman walk by carrying a bundle on her head. A photograph of the author, Samuel Selvon, is on the jacket back.
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An ocean to ourselves
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Front cover illustration depicts a small sailboat with three people aboard.
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Anancy's score
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Front cover illustration depicts part of a face with one eye. Back cover has a photograph of Andrew Salkey and Errol Lloyd.
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Anansi and the alligator eggs = Anansi y los huevos del cocodrilo
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Book jacket front and back illustrations depict Anansi in the form of a spider, with a wicker basket, confronting an alligator and her eggs.
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Ancestors: a reinvention of Mother poem, Sun poem, and X/self
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Front cover photograph shows a group of children sitting on a railroad track.
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Another home, another country
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Front cover illustration shows a boy crouched outdoors at the water's edge, with palm trees and mountains behind him.
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Around the world in eighty poems
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Front cover illustration (repeated on back cover) shows a group of people in a hot air balloon about to lift off, as others watch and wave.
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Ascent to Omai
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At school today
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The front cover has a painted portrait of middle school student and poet Accabre Huntley.
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At the rendezvous of victory: selected writings
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Front cover has photograph of author C. R. L. James.
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Baba and Mr. Big
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Jacket illustration depicts a scene in a village, with an old man extending his arm for a large bird to land on as a startled young boy looks on, and two men run toward them, one carrying a rifle.
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Backfire: a collection of short stories from the Caribbean for use in secondary schools
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Front cover illustration depicts three startled figures in a bed and a goat with its head protruding through an adjacent window.
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Bahamas in poetry
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Front cover has photographs of a group of people fishing from a boat.
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Bahamian scene
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Jacket front has a small sketch of sailboats. A photograph of the author, Susan J. Wallace, is on the jacket back flap.
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