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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

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

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

West Indian stories

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

1960

Dreadlock: a novel

A small illustration of a figure with an upraised sword astride a horse is on the jacket front and back.

1981

Amongst thistles and thorns

Jacket front photograph shows a dry flower from a thistle. Jacket back flap has a photograph of the author, Austin C. Clarke.

1965

J--, Black Bam and the Masqueraders

Jacket front has a design of circles.

1972

City of Spades

Jacket front illustration depicts a Black person's head.

1957

On this mountain: and other poems

1965

The governor's lady

Jacket front has an illustration of a leopard at the bottom right. A photograph of author Norman Collins is on the back flap.

1968

Tom Cringle's log

Jacket front illustration shows a young sailor aboard ship holding a cutlass and looking out towards a nearby schooner.

1969

The Negro in English literature: a critical introduction

1962

Jamaica is the eye of Bolivar: a play in two acts

A photograph of the author, Francisco M. Cuevas Cancino, is on the back cover.

1979

The bridge of beyond

Jacket front illustration is of an Afro-Caribbean woman's head with flamelike hair. A photograph of the author, Simone Schwarz-Bart, is on the jacket back.

1975

Family structure in Jamaica: the social context of reproduction

Jacket front illustration is of a woman with a basket on her head, carrying a baby in a sling. A man stands in the background.

1962

Jamaican folk tales and oral histories

Jacket front photograph shows a group of people of all ages seated outdoors. An elderly woman is at the center of the group.

1984

Kinship and community in Carriacou

1962

A young man's journey

The jacket front photograph shows a silhouette of a man's head looking out over water as the sun sets. A photograph of the author's riverside encampment at Omai, Guiana, seen from the Essequebo River, is on the jacket back.

1973

The Barbados book

Jacket front has an image of the colonial seal of Barbados; an Illustration of flying fish is on the jacket back. A map of the Caribbean is on the front endpapers.

1964

West Indies

Jacket front photograph shows a boy riding on the shoulders of a young man among a group of people outdoors. A photograph of the author, Dr. Philip Sherlock, is on the jacket back.

1966

Isle of cloves: a view of Zanzibar

Jacket front illustration is of a large house set in a tropical landscape.

1957

Dark strangers: a sociological study of the absorption of a recent West Indian migrant group in Brixton, South London

Jacket image features a photo collage of a mostly Afro-Caribbean crowd outdoors in an urban environment.

1963

Kaywana blood (jacket front)

Jacket front illustration shows a young man glancing behind him at a woman wearing an apron and head kerchief. A house and trees are in the distance.

1958

Isle of revolt

Jacket front illustration shows two Afro-Caribbean laborers wearing straw hats, one gesturing with his right arm upraised. A bright sun shines down on them, and the ocean is behind them.

1956

Shark Island

Front cover illustration shows a the back of a naked woman sitting up in bed. A photograph of the author, Maurice Edelman, is on the jacket back.

1967

The longest pleasure

The jacket front photograph shows a chess board with chess pieces, an armored car, a canon, and destroyed houses on it. A photograph of the author, Christopher Nicole, is on the jacket back.

1970

Thunder returning: a novel in the leitmotiv manner

Jacket front illustration is an abstract image suggestive of lightning.

1961

A tale of three places

The jacket front illustration represents three island locations. The one at the top is England, with an illustration of London's Houses of Parliament superimposed. At bottom left is an island with factories (Trinidad); at bottom right is the island of St. Lucia, with palm trees and a rain cloud releasing rain.

1957

The sleepers of Roraima: a Carib trilogy

Jacket front illustration shows the head of an indigenous person of the Caribbean.

1970

Heartland

Jacket front consists mostly of text, with a large orange heart over the title.

1964

The far journey of Oudin

Jacket front illustration shows two faces in profile, one with an angry expression.

1961

The wild coast

Jacket front illustration shows a bare-chested woman and a man dancing as a drummer plays; in the foreground, another bare-chested woman, the only person with a clearly drawn face, stares off. A photograph of the author, Jan Carew, is on the jacket back flap.

1958

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