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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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The message is change: a perspective on the 1972 general elections
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Front cover illustration depicts the head of Michael Manley surrounded by various groups of people.
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The middle passage: impressions of five societies, British, French and Dutch, in the West Indies and South America
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The minister
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Jacket front illustration depicts a white man wearing a suit and standing at a table. Jacket back illustration depicts a man and woman in box seats at a theater, with a standing man looking down at them from behind.
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The moth and the star
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Front cover illustration depicts a beam of light from a star shining directly on a moth.
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The murderer
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Book jacket illustration depicts palm fronds above a shadowy image of the head and shoulder of a woman.
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The naked ghost: and other poems
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Covers for a book of poetry.
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The obeah man
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Jacket front illustration shows an Afro-Caribbean couple flirting, seen from above, with legs of dancers behind them.
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The orchid house
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The front cover illustration is a detail from the 1880 painting "Orchids, Passion Flowers, and Hummingbird" by Martin Johnson Heade.
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The ordeal of British Guiana
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Jacket front illustration shows an open-mouthed head sitting atop a distorted pair of arms and hands. A photograph of author Philip Reno is on the jacket's back flap.
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The origin and development of the people of Jamaica
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A map of Jamaica on the front cover shows the three historic counties in Jamaica, as well as the boundaries of the parishes within each. A photograph of author Richard Hart is on the back cover.
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The pattern of a dependent economy: the national income of British Honduras
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The piece of fire: and other Haitian tales
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Front cover illustration shows a boy playing a drum, children riding a donkey, a woman carrying a basket of fruit on her head, and a number of other animals. A shining sun is at the top left-hand corner.
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The piling of clouds
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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.
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The piling of clouds (Four Square edition)
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Jacket front illustration shows a man wearing a suit, seen from the rear.
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The plains of Caroni
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A photograph of the author, Samuel Selvon, is on the jacket back.
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The plantation economy; population and economic change in Guyana, 1838-1960
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Front cover illustration shows part of a banana tree with bananas, the end of a branch of a coffee plant, and stalks of sugar cane with tassels.
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The pleasures of exile
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The plural society in the British West Indies
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The poetry of Léopold Sédar Senghor
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Front cover illustration is a portrait of Senghor, created with overlapping typewritten letters and dots.
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The poetry of Nicolas Guillen: an introduction
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A close-up photograph of Nicolás Guillén's face is on the front cover.
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The political economy of the English speaking Caribbean: a summary view
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The political economy of the English speaking Caribbean: a summary view. 2nd edition
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The pond: a book of poems
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The front cover has a photograph of the moon's surface overlaid with other elements, including a face resembling an African mask, and a number of smaller figures. A photograph of the author, Mervyn Morris, is on the back cover.
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The privateer
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Jacket front illustration shows the upper torsos of two men dressed in seventeenth century style. Two small sailing ships in silhouette are below them.
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The scholar-man
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The jacket front illustration shows a profile view of an Afro-Caribbean man's head, obscured behind a pattern of vertical lines. A photograph of the author, O. R. Dathorne, is on the jacket back flap.
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The schoolmaster
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The secret ladder
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The secret memoirs of Lord Byron: [a novel]
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A photograph of the author, Christopher Nicole, is on the jacket back flap.
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The self lovers
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The jacket front has a photograph of a reclining bikini-clad woman in two separate circles, as if seen through binoculars.
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The singing turtle, and other tales from Haiti
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Jacket front illustration shows a tiger staring intently at a turtle in the foreground. Behind the tiger, emerging from tall grass, are the smiling heads of an Afro-Caribbean man and an Afro-Caribbean woman, some huts and other buildings, a baboon, and a devil with a pitchfork.
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The single star
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Front cover illustration shows a palm tree and a single star.
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The sleepers of Roraima: a Carib trilogy
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Jacket front illustration shows the head of an indigenous person of the Caribbean.
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The sociology of political independence: a study of nationalist attitudes among West Indian leaders
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The jacket front illustration depicts a palm tree; a pattern of flags appears on its trunk, and its fronds are indicated with stars. This image is also found on the jacket front of "Social change and images of the future: a study of the pursuit of progress in Jamaica" (Schenkman Publishing Co., 1968). A photograph of the author, Charles C. Moskos, Jr. is on the jacket back flap.
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The state of black desire
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Larry Potter was the illustrator.
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The sun salutes you
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Jacket front illustration shows a young Afro-Caribbean man cleaning a truck in front of a home as an Afro-Caribbean woman and man watch him. Behind them is a landscape with palm trees. A photograph of the author, C. Everard Palmer, is on the jacket back flap.
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The sun's eye: West Indian writing for young readers
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Front cover illustration shows a large circular sun above water, with three vertical elements.
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The sun's eye: West Indian writing for young readers (New edition)
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The front cover artwork is an abstract painting with various figures.
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The sunlit Caribbean
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An open archway looks out over a bay with a mountain on the other side; a small boat is beached, propped against the trunk of a palm tree.
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The survivors of the crossing
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The front cover illustration depicts a sugar cane plant. A photograph of the author, Austin C. Clarke, is on the jacket back flap.
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The tachí tree
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The book jacket illustration shows trees, and on the jacket front, the image of an insect with a pair of human eyes between its appendages. A photograph of the author, Lillian O'Donnell, is on the jacket back flap.
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The tamarind seed
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The front cover illustration depicts woman's head and bare shoulders beneath a web of foliage.
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The theory and practice of Creole grammar
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The front cover illustration includes landscape elements and a sun.
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The third temptation: a novel
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The front cover illustration depicts arched forms and gothic windows.
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The trouble with Albino Joe
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The turtle net: a story of children's life in the West Indies
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Jacket illustration shows a boy and a girl in a boat lifting a net with a turtle in it out of the water.
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The violins of Saint-Jacques: a tale of the Antilles
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Book jacket illustration is of an elegant villa with chandeliers and various figures visible through the lit windows. A smoldering volcano is in the distance behind the villa (on jacket back).
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The waiting room
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The weather family: a novel
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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).
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The weather in Middenshot: a novel
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Jacket front illustration shows three women braving three different forms of inclement weather.
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The well-wishers
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Front cover image is detail of the three witches from the 1793-1794 painting "Macbeth, Banquo and the Witches" by Henry Fuseli.
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