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The wine of astonishment

Front cover illustration is of flowers in a vertical design. A photograph of the author, Earl Lovelace, is on the jacket back flap.

1982

The year in San Fernando

Front cover illustration is a green curtain, parted to reveal the book's title.

1965

Island voices: stories from the West Indies

Jacket front illustration shows the silhouette of a man's head in black, against a patterned ground. He wears a collared shirt with a checker pattern, and a bandana tied at his neck.

1970

Big Doc Bitteroot

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.

1968

Three Finger Jack's treasure

Jacket front illustration is of two children inside a cave, one holding a flashlight as the other searches. There are two rifles on the ground.

1961

Uncle Time: poems

A photograph of poet Dennis Scott is on the back cover.

1973

A quality of violence

Jacket front illustration shows two bare-chested muscular men fighting. A photograph of author Andrew Salkey is on the jacket back.

1959

Fever grass

Jacket front illustration shows an Afro-Caribbean woman in a short dress perched on a stool. Behind her on the left is a revolver and marijuana leaves on stems; on the right, two men fight with one another outdoors in water.

1969

The Autumn Equinox

Jacket illustration has a map of a (fictional) Caribbean island.

1959

Fractured circles

Photograph of author James Berry is on the back cover.

1979

Douglah

Front cover illustration depict's a man's face. A photograph of the author, Ray Rahaman, is on the back cover.

1976

Natives of my person

Front cover illustration is of a medallion with the bust of a man in 16th century dress, and a ship and island in the water behind him. A photograph of author George Lamming is on the jacket back.

1972

Water with berries

The book jacket has an image of a hand held open, with fingers reaching up and outwards. A photograph of the author, George Lamming, is on the jacket back flap.

1971

Man from the people

Jacket front illustration shows a woman carrying a basket of fruit on her head. Behind her, a man on a platform in front of a political sign gestures to an assembled crowd. A photograph of the author, Lionel Hutchinson, is on the jacket back.

1969

The meeting point

Jacket front has an image of a smiling woman holding a hand to her face. A photograph of the author, Austin C. Clarke, is on the jacket back flap.

1967

Other exiles

The front cover photograph is a detail of the church La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, by architect Antonio Gaudi.

1975

Mother poem

Cover illustration is a map of Barbados from "A True and Exact History of the Islands of Barbadoes" by Richard Ligon, 1673.

1977

A flight of sparrows

1966

Critics on Caribbean literature: readings in literary criticism

1978

The Caribbean people. Book One

Front cover photograph is of an Aztec featherwork shield in the collection of the Museum für Völkerkunde (Museum of Ethnology) in Vienna. Back cover photographs are of a Taino wood sculpture of a zemi (deity) from Jamaica, in the collection of the British Museum (top), and a reconstruction painting of a Mayan mural at Bonampak, showing a procession of musicians (bottom).

1979

Adventure in the Caribbean

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.

1968

The Penguin book of Caribbean verse in English

The front cover shows a detail from the altarpiece of the Roseau Valley Church, St. Lucia, by artist Dunstan St. Omer.

1986

Growing up stupid under the Union Jack

A photograph of graffiti is on the front and back covers.

1980

Absolute beginners

Jacket front photograph shows a city street with a young woman walking towards a young man standing on the sidewalk.

1959

The burnt child: an autobiography

Jacket front has two photographs of a young white boy, one with arms upraised and shouting as flames reach towards him, and the other a small portrait set in an oval.

1975

Johncrow: a novel of Jamaica

Front cover illustration shows a large vulture descending from the sky, with mountains in the distance. A photograph of author, Terence J. Brien, is on the jacket back.

1971

Selected poems

The jacket front illustration depicts foliage. A photograph of the author, Derek Walcott, is on the jacket back flap.

1964

Smile please: an unfinished autobiography

A photograph of author Jean Rhys is on the front cover.

1981

Confessions and histories

1964

Selected poems

Covers for a book of poetry.

1971

The banana men

Two multi-colored faces are visible in a red and purple funnel cloud; the face of Fidel Castro is on the left and another man's face is on the right. A United States military helicopter is on the jacket back.

1967

Commonwealth short stories

Front cover illustration is of an open field with a tractor and two men holding guns.

1971

Never till now

1968

Selected poems

Front cover illustration is a geometric graphic.

1972

The poetry of Léopold Sédar Senghor

Front cover illustration is a portrait of Senghor, created with overlapping typewritten letters and dots.

1973

Resistance and Caribbean literature

Book jacket illustration shows three palm trees, their fronds blown by the wind. There is a photograph of the author, Selwyn R. Cudjoe, on the back flap.

1980

Jokey stories of Trinidad and Tobago

Front cover illustration is a line drawing showing a man kneeling on the road between the arms of a wooden cart, with a donkey riding on the cart.

1972

Jamaican Christmas chimes

Front cover illlustration for a book of Christmas stories shows a poinsettia bloom.

1970

The eye of innocence: children and their poetry

Jacket front illustration shows a seated child holding a pencil and looking at a skull, bones and other objects

1965

Notes for a glossary of words and phrases of Barbadian dialect

1955

How to speak Jamaican?

Cover illustration shows two uncomprehending white tourists who have come upon two Jamaicans fishing.

1981

West Indian migrants: social and economic facts of migration from the West Indies

1962

Men in prison

Front cover illustration shows two men behind bars being guarded by a uniformed man with a rifle.

1964

The colour of their skin

Jacket front illustration shows three heads in profile view, representing African, Caucasian, and Asian peoples.

1969

New backgrounds: the immigrant child at home and at school

The front cover photograph shows children with an adult in a school setting. The back cover photograph shows children with adults in a family setting.

1968

My mother who fathered me: a study of the family in three selected communities in Jamaica

Jacket front has a montage of photographs of Jamaican people in various environments.

1957

Consequences of class and color: West Indian perspectives

Front cover photograph shows a group of Afro-Caribbean children outside a stone church.

1973

Commercial broadcasting in the British West Indies

Front and back covers have an outline map of the West Indies.

1956

Cricket's brightest summer

Jacket front photograph shows Frank Worrell, captain of the West Indies cricket team, presenting the Frank Worrell Trophy to Richie Benaud, captain of the Australian team, at the end of the series.

1961

Living for cricket

Front cover photograph shows cricket player Clive Lloyd at bat.

1980

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