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Illustration of Puerto Rican Flag from " ...De que Allá las condiciones coloniales de opresión y explotación son las mismas..."
Illustration of flag behind captions, "¿Consulta? ¿Estadidad? ¿Status? ¿ELA? ¿Plebiscito? ¿Independencia? ¿Referendum? ¿De Que Estamos Hablando?" from political publication"...De que Allá las condiciones coloniales de opresión y explotación son las mismas..."
1988



Personality and conflict in Jamaica (dust jacket)
Jacket front photograph shows the upper part of an Afro-Caribbean woman standing outside, with palm trees visible behind her.
1952


Turtle Island--goodbye: an autobiography
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.
1976

The singing turtle, and other tales from Haiti
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.
1971

Rum Island
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.
1963

Shadows move among them (Pocket Book edition)
Front cover illustration shows a woman in shorts seated on an open window ledge with one knee raised. A man standing outside gestures towards her.
1953

The piling of clouds
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.
1961

The murderer
Book jacket illustration depicts palm fronds above a shadowy image of the head and shoulder of a woman.
1978

An island is a world
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.
1955

Turn again tiger (Four Square ed.)
Front cover illlustration shows the face of a brown man and the figure of a white woman wearing a white blouse, seen through a screen of sugar cane stalks. A photograph of the author, Samuel Selvon, is on the back cover.
1962

Crown jewel: a novel
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.
1981

Cricket in the road
Illustration on jacket front shows a hummingbird hovering next to a flowering plant.
1973

Independence anthology of Jamaican literature
A celebrating figure drawn in a modernist style is on the jacket front. The official seal of Jamaica is on the jacket back.
1962

The hummingbird people
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.
1971

Die the long day
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.
1972

A tale from the rainforest
Cover photograph shows rainforest treetops against the sky.
1988


World without end: memoirs of a time
The front cover drawing depicts a shoreline with a windswept tree, open water, and clouds. There is a photograph of the author, John Wickham, on the back cover.
1982

Saw the house in half: a novel
A photograph of the author, Oliver Jackman, is on the jacket back.
1974


News for Babylon: the Chatto book of Westindian-British poetry
Front cover illustration is a graphic of two palm trees.
1984

Stories from the Caribbean: an anthology
Jacket front illustration shows a stick fighter on stilts, wearing a green, yellow and red multicolored costume.
1965

Caribbean rhythms: the emerging English literature of the West Indies
Front cover photograph shows a group playing steel drums outdoors.
1974

West Indian poetry: an anthology for schools
Front and back covers depict a colorful assortment of leaves and organic forms against a ground of horizontal bands suggesting beach, sea, and sky.
1972


Jamaica white
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.
1968

At school today
The front cover has a painted portrait of middle school student and poet Accabre Huntley.
1977

The violins of Saint-Jacques: a tale of the Antilles
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).
1953

Brown sugar: a vestigial tale
Jacket front illustration shows a young woman of mixed race smiling from behind a dangling palm frond.
1966

The minister
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.
1961

Rights of passage
Jacket front has a photograph of shackles and chains along the left side.
1967