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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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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 double exile: African and West Indian writing between two cultures
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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 trade unionism in Guyana, 1900 to 1961
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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 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 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 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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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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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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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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Ascent to Omai
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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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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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Banda
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Jacket front has a photograph of Hastings Kamuzu Banda.
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Big Doc Bitteroot
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Jacket front illustration shows a group of people standing outside near a mustachioed man, with an enclosed horse-drawn wagon and a house behind them.
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Bitter-sweet and spice: "These things I remember": the autobiography of Frederick McDermott Coard
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Jacket front illustration is a seaside scene with palm trees, a beach, and open water. A number of fruit pods are in the foreground.
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Black + blues
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Jacket illustration depicts a number of spheres, some within a circle, others scattered outside it.
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Black Caribbean
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Jacket front illustrations depict several exoticized and stereotypical images of Caribbean people.
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Black Marsden: a tabula rasa comedy
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Black albino
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Jacket front illustration shows an Afro-Caribbean mother hugging an albino child.
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Black faces, white faces
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Black separatism and the Caribbean, 1860
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Jacket front illustration depicts a tropical island village on a hillside by the sea.
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Blacks in science: astrophysicist to zoologist
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Jacket front has photographs of two Black scientists. A photograph of the author, Hattie Carwell, is on the jacket back.
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Breaklight: an anthology of Caribbean poetry
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Jacket illustration depicts flowering plants, hills, and the sun.
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British colonial developments, 1774-1834: select documents
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Brown sugar: a vestigial tale
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Jacket front illustration shows a young woman of mixed race smiling from behind a dangling palm frond.
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Bustamante: anthology of a hero
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A photograph of Alexander Bustamante is on the jacket front. A photograph of the author, B. St. John Hamilton, is on the front flap.
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Capitalism & slavery
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Caribbean adventure
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Jacket front illustration shows a group of pirates with swords raised, gathered around a canon on the deck of their ship. Another ship is in the background. A photograph of the author, D. M. Symonds, is on the jacket back.
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Caribbean adventure
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Jacket front illustration shows a street scene in a Caribbean village, with two white visitors asking for help from a man in a car as other villagers look on.
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Caribbean circuit
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Jacket front shows a detail of a Caribbean tapestry with rows of small figures in various colors on a yellow ground. A small map of the Caribbean is at the center. Endpapers have maps of the Caribbean, with the principal routes of the author's travels indicated.
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Caribbean literature: an anthology
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Jacket illustration is an impressionistic rendering of sky, sun, water, and beach.
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Caribbean power
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Book jacket image is a diagram-like map of the Caribbean.
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Children of Caliban: miscegenation
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Choice of straws
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Jacket front illustration shows a Black woman in a dress with a keyhole cutout in the bodice; a white man wearing a suit jacket and tie is behind her. A photograph of the author, E. R. Braithwaite, is on the jacket back.
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Christopher
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The front cover illustration shows a woman with a kerchief on her head looking towards a boy holding a bouquet of flowers. A photograph of the author, Geoffrey Drayton, is on the back cover.
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University of Illinois Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives Department (Richard J. Daley Library)
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14 Harris, Wilson 14 Mittelhölzer, Edgar 10 Salkey, Andrew 10 Selvon, Samuel 7 Anthony, Michael, 1930- 7 Lamming, George, 1927- 7 Nicole, Christopher 6 Palmer, C. Everard 5 Gerson, Mark 5 Hearne, John, 1926-1994 4 Braithwaite, E. R. (Edward Ricardo) 4 Brathwaite, Kamau, 1930- 4 Clarke, Austin, 1934-2016 4 Lovelace, Earl, 1935- 4 Rhys, Jean 4 Sherlock, Philip Manderson, Sir 3 Carew, Jan R., 1920-2012 3 La Yacona, Maria 3 Lucie-Smith, Edward 3 Naipaul, Shiva, 1945- 3 Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018 3 Patterson, Orlando, 1940- 3 Smith, M. G. (Michael Garfield) 3 Walcott, Derek 3 Williams, Eric Eustace, 1911-1981 2 Abrahams, Robert D., 1905-1998 2 Dathorne, O. R., 1934- 2 De Boissière, Ralph 2 De Lisser, Herbert George, 1878-1944 2 Drayton, Geoffrey, 1924- 2 Edelman, Maurice, 1911-1975 2 Gudmundson, Shirley M. 2 Hutchinson, Lionel Campbell 2 Iremonger, Lucille 2 Kempadoo, Peter 2 Lauchmonen 2 Longman Group 2 MacInnes, Colin 2 Morris, John 2 Searle, Chris 2 St. Omer, Garth 2 Williams, Denis, 1923-1998 2 Wilson, Jeanne, 1920- 1 Abrahams, Peter, 1919-2017 1 Adler, Robin 1 Alderman, Clifford Lindsey 1 Alonso, Luis Ricardo 1 Andrews, Colin 1 Anthony, Lew 1 Arya, Jitendra 1 Asgarally, Azize, 1933- 1 Bagley, Christopher 1 Bahamas Ministry of Tourism; Toogood, Stanley; The Governor's News Bureau. 1 Ball, A. G. (Alexander George) 1 Barrett, Lindsay, 1941- 1 Bartlett, Vernon, 1894-1983 1 Bauer, Jerry 1 Bayley, Viola 1 Berry, Francis 1 Blake, Judith 1 Bottome, Phyllis, 1884-1963 1 Brien, Terence J. 1 Brown, Wayne, 1944-2009 1 Cameron, Tom; McCormick, Ron 1 Cape, Jonathan 1 Carey Jones, N. S. 1 Cargill, Morris; Fleming, Ian, 1908-1964 1 Carter, Dorothy Sharp 1 Carwell, Hattie 1 Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016 1 Catto, Max, 1909-1992 1 Chapman, Esther 1 Charles, Faustin, 1944- 1 Charles, Pearnel, 1936- 1 Chase, Ashton 1 Clarke, Edith, 1896-1979 1 Coard, Frederick McDermott, 1893- 1 Cockett, Mary 1 Collins, Norman, 1907-1982 1 Collins, Wallace Barrymore, 1932- 1 Coral, George; Gerson, Mark 1 Coughtry, Arthur 1 Coulthard, George Robert 1 Courlander, Harold, 1908-1996 1 Cranmore, Frederick, 1948- 1 Creek, F. N. S. (Frederick Norman Smith), 1898-1980 1 Cudjoe, Selwyn R. (Selwyn Reginald) 1 Cuevas Cancino, Francisco M. 1 D'Costa, Jean 1 Dally, Ann 1 Daviot, Gordon, 1896 or 1897-1952 1 Desnoes, Edmundo, 1930- 1 Dimayo, Horace 1 Druce, Robert 1 Drury, W. P. (William Price), 1861-1949 1 Dupuch, Etienne, Sir 1 Durstine, Virginia Gardiner 1 Eales, Norman 1 Easton, Wilfred 1 Eggleston, George Teeple, 1906- 1 Emecheta, Buchi 1 Emtage, J. B. (James Bernard) 1 Fennell, Job Herbert 1 Ferguson, Barry 1 Ferguson, Merrill 1 Fermor, Patrick Leigh 1 Fraser, Fitzroy, 1936- 1 Gardam, Jane 1 Gibson, Graeme 1 Gilfond, Henry 1 Gilkes, Michael 1 Golden, Bob 1 Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888; Hill, Richard, 1795-1872 1 Grace, John 1 Griffiths, Gareth, 1943- 1 Guerra, Ramiro, 1880-1970 1 Guppy, Nicholas 1 Guy, Rosa 1 Guérin, Daniel, 1904-1988 1 Haig, Alec 1 Hamilton, B. L. St. John, 1914- 1 Hargreaves, Elisabeth 1 Harlow, Vincent T. (Vincent Todd), 1898-1961; Madden, A. F. 1 Harrison, Martin 1 Hawley, Harold 1 Hearne, John, 1926-1994; Cargill, Morris 1 Heath, Roy A. K. 1 Helweg-Larsen, Kjeld 1 Hemming, Wilbert Emanuel 1 Hendriks, Arthur Lemière, 1922- 1 Henriques, Fernando 1 Henry, Lauchland 1 Hinds, Donald 1 Hireson, Gordon 1 Hodge, Merle, 1944- 1 Hoetink, H. 1 Huggins, Molly, 1907- 1 Hughes, Richard, 1900-1976 1 Humfrey, Michael, 1936- 1 Jackman, Oliver 1 Jagan, Cheddi 1 James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989 1 James, Louis, 1933- 1 Jayawardena, Chandra 1 Kerr, Madeline 1 Khan, Ismith, 1925- 1 Krementz, Jill 1 La Touché, Jr., C. 1 Lacey, Terry 1 Lagarde 1 Leeson, Robert, 1928- 1 Leslie, David Stuart, 1921- 1 Luke, Harry, Sir, 1884-1969 1 Lynch, Louis 1 Mackenzie, Rhoda Elizabeth 1 Mankowitz, Wolf 1 Manley, Michael, 1924-1997 1 Manley, Norman Washington, 1893-1969 1 Marson, Una, 1905-1965 1 Mau, James A., 1935- 1 Mayne, Roger 1 McCullough, Norman Verrle 1 McKay, Claude, 1890-1948 1 Millette, James, 1933- 1 Mills, John James, 1888-1966 1 Moskos, Charles C. 1 Murrell, Shirley 1 Nagata, Y. 1 Naipaul, Seepersad 1 Nettleford, Rex M., 1933-2010 1 O'Donnell, Lillian 1 Ommanney, F. D. (Francis Downes), 1903- 1 Osbourne, Ivor 1 Parkinson, Cosmo, Sir, 1884- 1 Patterson, Bill 1 Patterson, Sheila, 1918- 1 Peach, Ceri 1 Pietri, Pedro, 1944-2004 1 Pradeau, Janine 1 Puissesseau, René 1 Reid, Victor Stafford, 1913- 1 Reno, Philip 1 Rex, John 1 Richards, Novelle H. 1 Rickards, Colin 1 Riou, Roger, 1909- 1 Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957 1 Roberts, L. D. (Lawrence Donovan) 1 Robinson, Carey, 1924- 1 Rooksby, Denis 1 Rousseau, Patrick H. O., 1934- 1 Roy, Namba 1 Rupp, Paul 1 Saint Patrick 1 Schwarz-Bart, Simone 1 Scott, Michael, 1789-1835 1 Seyfarth, Fritz 1 Sharp, John 1 Short, Philip 1 St Claire, Yvonne 1 Stamford, Vanessa 1 Stewart, John, 1933- 1 Suschitzky, Wolfgang 1 Swinfen, D. B. 1 Syme, Ronald, 1910-1992 1 Symonds, D. M. (Derrick Maurice) 1 Tanna, Laura 1 Teague, Michael 1 Tey, Josephine, 1896 or 1897-1952 1 The Age (Melbourne, Australia) 1 Thoby-Marcelin, Philippe, 1904-1975; Marcelin, Pierre, 1908- 1 Thompson, R. W. (Reginald William) 1 Toogood, Stanley 1 Tree, Ronald, 1897-1976 1 Tucker, Terry 1 Turner, Adam 1 Turner, Louis, 1942- ; Ash, John 1 Twohig, Margo, active 1975- 1 Underhill, Harold 1 Vestdijk, Simon, 1898-1971 1 Vinell Studios 1 Waddell, D. A. G. (David Alan Gilmour), 1927- 1 Wallace, Susan J. 1 Watson, Edward Anthony 1 Waugh, Alec, 1898-1981 1 Westlake, Donald E. 1 Wickham, Michael 1 Wide World Photos 1 Williams, N. D. (Noel D.), 1921- 1 Wynter, Sylvia