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Personality and conflict in Jamaica (dust jacket)
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Jacket front photograph shows the upper part of an Afro-Caribbean woman standing outside, with palm trees visible behind her.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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Turtle Island--goodbye: an autobiography
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Jacket front illustration shows a beachfront with palm trees and open water beyond. A handful of figures stands under an open shelter, watching a group of people in a small boat leaving a larger boat. A photograph of the author, Roger Riou, is on the jacket back flap.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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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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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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Rum Island
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The jacket front illustration shows barrels and other cargo sitting on a dock, and two sailing ships behind. A banner displaying the word "JAMAICA" floats above this scene.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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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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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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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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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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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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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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Crown jewel: a novel
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Illustration on jacket front shows an Afro-Caribbean man and woman in front of a wooden shack. A photograph of the author, Ralph De Boissière, is on the back flap.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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Cricket in the road
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Illustration on jacket front shows a hummingbird hovering next to a flowering plant.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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Independence anthology of Jamaican literature
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A celebrating figure drawn in a modernist style is on the jacket front. The official seal of Jamaica is on the jacket back.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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The hummingbird people
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Jacket front illustration shows a crowd of people who cheer and wave as an open car carries three Afro-Caribbean men in military uniform down a street; children clap, dance, and run alongside the car. A photograph of the author, C. Everard Palmer, is on the back flap.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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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.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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Saw the house in half: a novel
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A photograph of the author, Oliver Jackman, is on the jacket back.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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Stories from the Caribbean: an anthology
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Jacket front illustration shows a stick fighter on stilts, wearing a green, yellow and red multicolored costume.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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Jamaica white
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Jacket front illustration shows the looming figure of an unhappy-looking woman in a purple dress, staring outward; a cloudy, stormy sky above her; Rose Hall in the background.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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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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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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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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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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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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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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Rights of passage
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Jacket front has a photograph of shackles and chains along the left side.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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Paid servant
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The jacket front illustration shows a young boy playing with blocks, and an Afro-Caribbean man in a suit standing in the background. A photograph of the author, E. R. Braithwaite, is on the jacket back.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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Christopher
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Jacket front graphic is a large letter "C" to the left of the title.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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Race and colour in Caribbean literature
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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Detained: 283 days in Jamaica's detention camp, struggling for freedom, justice, and human rights!
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Front cover photograph shows a bare-chested Afro-Caribbean man behind prison bars, gripping the bars and looking off into distance.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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Children of Caliban: miscegenation
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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Conflict and solidarity in a Guianese plantation
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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Sugar and society in the Caribbean: an economic history of Cuban agriculture
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Jacket front photograph shows pampas grass blowing in the wind.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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A history of trade unionism in Guyana, 1900 to 1961
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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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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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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Mirror, mirror: identity, race, and protest in Jamaica
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Book jacket is a shiny silver color, in imitation of a mirror.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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The West Indies and their future
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Jacket front illustration is a map of the Caribbean, with names provided for the larger islands.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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Up from poverty
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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North of south: an African journey
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A photograph of the author, Shiva Naipaul, is on the jacket back flap.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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Too much to tell
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A photograph of the author, Molly Huggins, is on the jacket back.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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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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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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Maroon boy
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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.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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Last cool days
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A photograph of the author, John Stewart, is on jacket back flap.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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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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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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With a Carib eye
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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.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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The wounded and the worried
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Jacket front illustration shows the head of a man with downcast eyes behind a row of vertical bars.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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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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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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Uncle Paul
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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Guiana boy
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Jacket front has a line drawing illustration of a man and a boy going fishing.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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Wilson Harris and the Caribbean novel
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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The whole armour
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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Palace of the peacock
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Jacket front illustration is of a peacock.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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Companions of the day and night
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Jacket front has an illustration of a Mayan solar calendar rising in a ball of flame from a man's mouth.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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Black Marsden: a tabula rasa comedy
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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Ascent to Omai
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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The West Indian: a novel
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Jacket front photograph shows a palm tree near a beach. A photograph of the author, Frederick Cranmore, is on the jacket back.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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The last barbarian
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Book jacket and endpapers are illustrated with drawings of Harlem from Topolski's Chronicle.
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H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies

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