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Anansi and the alligator eggs = Anansi y los huevos del cocodrilo

Book jacket front and back illustrations depict Anansi in the form of a spider, with a wicker basket, confronting an alligator and her eggs.

1975

Maroon boy

Book jack illustration depicts an Afro-Caribbean man fighting on a quay with a white man wielding a cutlass. Behind them (on the jacket back), a number of white men approach, wielding cutlasses.

1974

Last cool days

A photograph of the author, John Stewart, is on jacket back flap.

1971

Sir Henry Morgan, buccaneer and governor

The front cover illustration is a reproduction of an engraving of Welsh privateer Henry Morgan, from a book published in 1684: "The Buccaneers of America: A True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults Committed of Late Years Upon the Coasts of the West Indies by the Buccaneers of Jamaica and Tortuga". A small photograph of the author, W. Adolphe Roberts, is on the back cover.

1952

The self lovers

The jacket front has a photograph of a reclining bikini-clad woman in two separate circles, as if seen through binoculars.

1968

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

The wounded and the worried

Jacket front illustration shows the head of a man with downcast eyes behind a row of vertical bars.

1962

The weather in Middenshot: a novel

Jacket front illustration shows three women braving three different forms of inclement weather.

1952

Uncle Paul

1963

Kaywana blood

Jacket front illustration shows a woman in a state of semi-undress, standing in a sugar cane field.

1961

Guiana boy

Jacket front has a line drawing illustration of a man and a boy going fishing.

1960

Wilson Harris and the Caribbean novel

1975

The whole armour

1962

Palace of the peacock

Jacket front illustration is of a peacock.

1960

Companions of the day and night

Jacket front has an illustration of a Mayan solar calendar rising in a ball of flame from a man's mouth.

1975

Black Marsden: a tabula rasa comedy

1972

Ascent to Omai

1970

The West Indian: a novel

Jacket front photograph shows a palm tree near a beach. A photograph of the author, Frederick Cranmore, is on the jacket back.

1978

The last barbarian

Book jacket and endpapers are illustrated with drawings of Harlem from Topolski's Chronicle.

1961

The lonely Londoners

The jacket front illustration depicts two Afro-Caribbean men and an Afro-Caribbean woman on a city sidewalk in front of a fence. A photograph of the author, Samuel Selvon, is on the jacket back.

1956

Fireflies

Front cover illustration depicts sugar cane with a seaside landscape and a factory with a smokestack behind. A firefly is in a circle at the lower right.

1970

Riot

Jacket front illustration shows a group of people running in the street, some holding signs; baskets of fruit and vegetables in the foreground are overturned. Jacket back illustration shows a figure seated on the ground under an umbrella, alongside a donkey cart filled with produce. Prologue page illustration shows a group of people looking at a "Vacancies" poster on a wall; one man stands with his back to them.

1967

The late emancipation of Jerry Stover

Jacket front illustration shows the head of a man in a landscape setting. A photograph of the author, Andrew Salkey, is on the back cover. Copy inscribed with H. D. Carberry's signature in ink on the front endpaper.

1968

Earthquake

Jacket front illustration is a line and wash drawing showing a rearing donkey overturning a cart, people praying and fleeing an earthquake. TItle page has a drawing of a seated man speaking.

1965

The hills of Hebron

The jacket painting depicts a landscape view with a bright, multi-colored sky and people engaged in various activities. On the jacket front in the foreground, an older man with white hair points straight out, his face wrinkled in consternation. Behind him is a wooden church and a young Afro-Caribbean woman reclining against a tree with a man's head resting on her lap. A photograph of the author, Sylvia Wynter, is on the back flap.

1962

Out of the silent stone

Front cover illustration shows a naked man and woman embracing. A photograph of the author, Dr. Edward Anthony Watson, is on the jacket front flap.

1976

The wooing of Beppo Tate

Jacket front illustration depicts a man milking a cow in a field as two boys spy on him through bushes. A photograph of the author, Everard Palmer, is on the jacket back flap.

1972

The sun salutes you

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.

1970

The candywine development

Jacket front photograph is of an Afro-Caribbean woman with a questioning look on her face. Photographs of the authors, Morris Cargill and John Hearne, are on the jacket back.

1970

The moth and the star

Front cover illustration depicts a beam of light from a star shining directly on a moth.

1937

Jamaica Lucina: second poems

Front cover illustration shows a seaside landscape with hills and palm trees.

1971

Portrait of a sea urchin: a Caribbean childhood

The jacket front illustration shows a young boy crouching to look closely at the creatures in an ocean pool.

1979

The orchid house

The front cover illustration is a detail from the 1880 painting "Orchids, Passion Flowers, and Hummingbird" by Martin Johnson Heade.

1982

Season of adventure

The jacket front illustration shows two trees bearing fruit. A photograph of the author, George Lamming, is on the jacket back.

1960

The pleasures of exile

1960

Of age and innocence

A photograph of author George Lamming is on the jacket back.

1958

Storm of fortune: a novel

The jacket front has a small image, placed between the title words, of a standing group of five people: three women in dresses and two men in suits. A photograph of the author, Austin Clarke, is on the jacket back.

1973

Ancestors: a reinvention of Mother poem, Sun poem, and X/self

Front cover photograph shows a group of children sitting on a railroad track.

2001

Bahamas in poetry

Front cover has photographs of a group of people fishing from a boat.

1971

Malfinis, or, The heart of a child (a trial in purgatory)

1967

West Indian stories

Front cover illustration is a close-up view of a man's face.

1960

New ships: an anthology of West Indian poems for junior secondary schools

Front cover illustration is a line drawing of a mast and two sails above waves.

1971

West Indian narrative: an introductory anthology

Front cover images: a slave with an iron collar around his neck, an advertisement for a slave sale, an Afro-Caribbean man wearing a hat, a palm frond. Back cover images are of a colonial church, and a man with a steel drum.

1966