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Cameos of the Caribbean
Front cover illustration depicts a beachfront scene with a relief carving on an upturned conch shell and a necklace with a cameo pendant in the foreground.
1966


Foundations: a book of poems
Front cover illustration is a pattern of rings.
1966

A morning at the office: a novel (book covers)
Book covers for a work of fiction.
1950

Edna Manley: the private years, 1900-1938 (book covers)
Blue paper-covered boards with gilt spine lettering.
1975

The final passage
Front cover illustration shows a Caribbean seaside landscape viewed through a porthole.
1985

At the rendezvous of victory: selected writings
Front cover has photograph of author C. R. L. James.
1984

Talking of trees
The cover photograph shows the surf hitting a rocky shoreline, with the sky above.
1985

Seven Jamaican poets: an anthology of recent poetry
The front cover illustration is a landscape with mountains visible at the top.
1971

Jamaica woman: an anthology of poems
Front cover illustration depicts an Afro-Caribbean woman's face.
1980

Focus (1960 issue)
The cover image, for the 1960 issue of this periodical, shows an outline map of Jamaica with rays and waves radiating out from it.
1960

A literature in the making
Front cover illustration shows a building with a brick fence in front of it. There is a small photograph of the author on the back cover.
1956

Days & nights
Cover illustration is a leaf-print pattern.
1975

The arrivants: a new world trilogy
Cover illustration shows a group of seemingly naked people all walking in the same direction.
1973

Bite in (Stage 1): a three year secondary course in reading poems
Photographs of children's faces appear within the letters of the title words.
1972

A reader's guide to West Indian and Black British literature
Front cover has three photographs: two people wearing costumes, a man with dreadlocks standing next to a sculpture, and two praying women wearing saris.
1988

Caribbean anthology of short stories
Front cover includes images of the colonial seals of British Guiana, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, and Jamaica.
1953


Alan Bold, Edward Brathwaite, Edwin Morgan
The cover photograph shows a detail of a Japanese lacquer box in the Maidstone Museum.
1969

Out for stars 1: an anthology of poetry for Caribbean secondary schools
The multi-colored cover illustration continues across the front and back covers, and includes imagery of flowers, mandala-like designs, stars, palm fronds and sugar cane stalks, and a figure wearing a hat reclining in a small boat.
1975

Retamar revolutionary poems: Cuba, 1959-1974
Savacou Publications' bird-head logo appears on the front cover below the title.
1974

Writing in Cuba since the Revolution: an anthology of poems, short stories, and essays
Front cover illustration has a white rifle in the foreground firing a dove of peace, and a black automatic rifle in the background.
1977

Black shack alley
Front cover photograph shows the head of a young Afro-Caribbean boy wearing a straw hat.
1980

The sun's eye: West Indian writing for young readers (New edition)
The front cover artwork is an abstract painting with various figures.
1989



Enemies of empire
Book covers have a diagrammatic map of the world with the locations of the colonies of the former French Empire indicated with blue hash marks. A photograph of the author, John Gaffar La Guerre, is on the back cover.
1984


A destiny to mould: selected discourses by the Prime Minister of Guyana, Forbes Burnham
A photograph of Forbes Burnham, Prime Minister of Guyana, is on the front cover.
1970

Lionheart gal: life stories of Jamaican women
The front cover illustration is based on a scene described in one of the life stories in the book. It shows four Caribbean women of great spiritual power defending their yard from theives and invaders. In yellow is Erzule, the Haitian goddess of sexuality; in blue is Yemaya, the Yoruba mother goddess; in white is Obatala, the androgynous god/dess of purity, turth, peace, justice and wisdom; and in red is Ni, the guerilla warrior priestess and queen of the Maroons.
1986

The plantation economy; population and economic change in Guyana, 1838-1960
Front cover illustration shows part of a banana tree with bananas, the end of a branch of a coffee plant, and stalks of sugar cane with tassels.
1973


Legends, true stories and old sayings from Trinidad and Tobago
Front cover illustration depicts an Afro-Caribbean woman's face.
1962

These my people (book covers)
The front cover illustration depicts a group of Afro-Caribbean people, some of them reaching upward towards tree branches.
1943





Tales of old Jamaica (front cover)
Front cover illustration shows an estate with a stone pillared gate, a long lawn, and a large house with mountains in the distance behind it.
1952

A Jamaican schoolgirl
Front cover illustration shows two young people shopping at an outdoor produce market.
1972

Kaywana stock
The front cover illustration shows a woman wearing a dress that clings to and reveals her body. She holds a coil of rope in her hands.
1961

Pitch lake: a story from Trinidad
Front cover illustration shows four people, all looking in different directions, with a small house and palm tree at the center. A photograph of the author, Alfred Mendes, is on the back cover.
1980

The young warriors
Front cover illustration shows a boy drawing a bow to shoot an arrow at a target, as others watch.
1967

The pond: a book of poems
The front cover has a photograph of the moon's surface overlaid with other elements, including a face resembling an African mask, and a number of smaller figures. A photograph of the author, Mervyn Morris, is on the back cover.
1973

White is apartof maroon
Photographs of the authors, Judy Allison and Col. C. L. G. Harris, are on the back cover.
1982


New poets from Jamaica: an anthology
Savacou Publications' bird-head logo is on the front cover above the title.
1979

East wind in paradise
Book covers have an image of a bundle of dynamite with sparks shooting out from the lit fuse.
1981


Images: an introductory course in reading modern short stories for Caribbean secondary schools
Circular illustration on the front cover shows a woman with a sack of melons slung over her back, walking along a railroad track in the country.
1973