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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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A morning at the office: a novel (book covers)
Book covers for a work of fiction.
1950
A swarthy boy
A photograph of the author, Edgar Mittelhölzer, is on the jacket back flap.
1963
A tale of three places
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.
1957
Children of Kaywana
The front cover illustration shows a woman wearing a clingy sleeveless dress that reveals her body. A man stands behind her holding a riding crop. A photograph of the author, Edgar Mittelhölzer, is on the back cover.
1959
Corentyne thunder
Front cover illustration shows two drums.
1970
Eltonsbrody: a novel
Jacket front illustration has a staring pair of eyes at the top, and an image of headstones in a graveyard at bottom. A photograph of the author, Edgar Mittelhölzer, is on the jacket back flap.
1960
Kaywana blood
Jacket front illustration shows a woman in a state of semi-undress, standing in a sugar cane field.
1961
Kaywana blood (jacket front)
Jacket front illustration shows a young man glancing behind him at a woman wearing an apron and head kerchief. A house and trees are in the distance.
1958
Kaywana stock
The front cover illustration shows a woman wearing a dress that clings to and reveals her body. She holds a coil of rope in her hands.
1961
Of trees and the sea
Jacket front illlustration depicts a beach in a tropical location with a man and woman standing in the water. Another woman is drying herself behind a rock (jacket spine).
1956
Shadows move among them (Ace Books edition)
Front cover illustration shows a woman wearing a dress that clings to and reveals her body.
1961
Shadows move among them (Four Square edition)
Front cover photograph shows a woman in a revealing dress leaning back against a wall with her eyes shut. An African sculpture stands nearby.
1963
Shadows move among them (Pocket Book edition)
Front cover illustration shows a woman in shorts seated on an open window ledge with one knee raised. A man standing outside gestures towards her.
1953
The Jilkington drama
A photograph of the author, Edgar Mittelhölzer, is on the jacket back flap.
1965
The adding machine: a fable for capitalists and commercialists
Front cover illustration shows two figures seated on a porch, one of them holding an adding machine. A small photograph of the author, Edgar Mittelhölzer, is on the back cover.
1954
The life and death of Sylvia
Jacket front illustration shows a woman seated on the step at the entrance to a building. Part of a house, another woman, and palm trees are behind her. A photograph of the author, Edgar Mittelhölzer, is on the jacket back.
1953
The piling of clouds
Jacket front illustration shows a man wearing a suit, seen from the rear. A photograph of author Edgar Mittelhölzer is on the jacket back flap.
1961
The piling of clouds (Four Square edition)
Jacket front illustration shows a man wearing a suit, seen from the rear.
1963
The weather family: a novel
Book jacket shows a room with a desk and numerous weather recording instruments (jacket back) with a door open to a view of stormy beach with a woman walking against the wind (jacket front).
1958
The weather in Middenshot: a novel
Jacket front illustration shows three women braving three different forms of inclement weather.
1952
The wounded and the worried
Jacket front illustration shows the head of a man with downcast eyes behind a row of vertical bars.
1962
Thunder returning: a novel in the leitmotiv manner
Jacket front illustration is an abstract image suggestive of lightning.
1961
Uncle Paul
1963
With a Carib eye
Jacket front illustration shows a view of the shore with a palm tree and a person looking out over the water. A photograph of the author, Edgar Mittelhölzer, is on the jacket back flap.
1958

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Repository
University of Illinois Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives Department (Richard J. Daley Library)
Collection Type
Rare Books
Collection Location
Richard J. Daley Library
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