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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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An absence of ruins
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Jacket front illustration shows the upper torso of a man, seen in profile.
Collection:
H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies
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Public access


Die the long day
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Front cover illustration is titled "Heathen practices in funerals," and was drawn by a Baptist missionary in Jamaica, circa 1840 (collection of University of Virginia). A photograph of the author, Orlando Patterson, is on the jacket back.
Collection:
H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies
Access:
Public access


The children of Sisyphus: a novel
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Jacket front illustration shows the upper part of an Afro-Caribbean woman standing in a road with an anxious expression on her face. Buildings, palm trees and the figure of a man (on jacket spine) are dimly visible behind her. A photograph of the author, H. Orlando Patterson, is on the jacket back.
Collection:
H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies
Access:
Public access