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Wide Sargasso Sea
The jacket illustration is of a young woman in nineteenth-century dress standing in a lush tropical garden, with a man on a path looking towards her and a house in the background.
1967
The plains of Caroni
A photograph of the author, Samuel Selvon, is on the jacket back.
1970
Moses ascending
A photograph of author Samuel Selvon is on the jacket back flap.
1975
The gulf, and other poems
Jacket illustration shows a dense tropical rainforest landscape with wild orchids, Spanish moss, and birds among trees and a body of water.
1969
The housing lark
1965
Green days by the river
Jacket front illustration shows a large hibiscus in the foreground; behind that at left, a young woman puts a hibiscus blossom in her hair. Two men in silhouette walk together at the right.
1967
In the hills where her dreams live: poems for Chile, 1973-1978
Jacket illustration is a design composed of irregularly-shaped multi-colored squares.
1979
Drought
Jacket front illustration depicts four people carrying water under a burning sun. Dead trees and a weak and tired donkey are behind them.
1966
No medicine for murder
Jacket front illustration shows a woman falling backward, her upturned face frozen in fear. A glass of wine falls in front of her.
1967
Model for murder
Jacket front illustration shows a woman's face with a frightened expression; a man's face with a concerned look is behind hers.
1968
New day
The front cover illustration a depicts a town street during colonial times, with a church, various wood buildings, and women walking, some with baskets on their heads.
1950
The children of Sisyphus: a novel
Jacket front illustration shows the upper part of an Afro-Caribbean woman standing in a road with an anxious expression on her face. Buildings, palm trees and the figure of a man (on jacket spine) are dimly visible behind her. A photograph of the author, H. Orlando Patterson, is on the jacket back.
1964
Roger Mais: The hills were joyful together and Brother man
The jacket front has a photograph of the author, Roger Mais.
1978
Voices under the window
Jacket front illustration shows a male figure in front of a brick wall, carrying an upraised pickaxe.
1955
Land of the living
Book jacket illustration shows a woman seated on the edge of a bed, wearing a robe. Behind her, a male figure lies asleep on the bed (jacket back).
1961
Wounds in the flesh
Jacket front illustration shows a man wearing a graduation cap and gown with a white shirt and shorts underneath. A photograph of the author, Fitzroy Fraser, is on the jacket back.
1962
A treasury of Jamaican poetry
1949
Bahamian scene
Jacket front has a small sketch of sailboats. A photograph of the author, Susan J. Wallace, is on the jacket back flap.
1970
New voices of the Commonwealth
Front cover illustration is of a large golden sun.
1968
Shades of grey
1968
The fair green weed
Jacket front illustration depicts a marijuana plant rising from the upraised end of a pistol. A small plane is in the sky behind it.
1972
A tropical childhood, and other poems
1961
Tribune story
The jacket front features a photograph of Etienne Dupuch, and a reproduction of the Who's Who entry for his name.
1967
J. J. Mills: his own account of his life and times
Jacket front has a photograph of the author, J. J. Mills.
1969
West Indian migration to Britain: a social geography
1968
The Colonial office from within, 1909-1945
1947
Race, colonialism and the city
1973
Stratification in Grenada
Front cover illustration is a network of lines, some radiating out from nodes.
1965
Social change and images of the future: a study of the pursuit of progress in Jamaica
The jacket front illustration depicts a palm tree; a pattern of flags appears on its trunk, and its fronds are indicated with stars. This image is also found on the jacket of "Sociology of political independence: a study of nationalist attitudes among West Indian leaders" (Schenkman Publishing Co., 1967). A photograph of the author, James A. Mau, is on the jacket back flap.
1968
The golden hordes: international tourism and the pleasure periphery
Jacket front shows a 35 mm. slide of two tourists tanning, one a woman in a bikini, placed over a background of a repeated image of a child holding another. On the jacket back is a photo montage of images of tourists.
1975
Caribbean circuit
Jacket front shows a detail of a Caribbean tapestry with rows of small figures in various colors on a yellow ground. A small map of the Caribbean is at the center. Endpapers have maps of the Caribbean, with the principal routes of the author's travels indicated.
1950
Tales of the Caribbean: a feast of islands
The jacket front photograph shows the author's ketch "Tumbleweed" at anchor in Marigot Bay, St. Lucia.
1978
The genesis of crown colony government: Trinidad, 1783-1810
Jacket illustration features a cornucopia design.
1970
Orchids on the calabash tree
The jacket front illustration shows a woman carrying a basket on her head, next to a palm tree. In the distance behind her is a view of a village by the sea and mountains.
1970
Norman Washington Manley and the new Jamaica: selected speeches and writings, 1938-68
Bust length photograph of Norman Manley is on jacket front. A side view of a bronze bust of Manley by Richmond Barthé is on the jacket back.
1971
The young traveller in the West Indies
Book jacket front and back has numerous small illustrations arranged in bands, including images of cultural artifacts, and people in various types of clothing.
1955
The sunlit Caribbean
An open archway looks out over a bay with a mountain on the other side; a small boat is beached, propped against the trunk of a palm tree.
1948
Yes, my darling daughter
Jacket front photograph is of a woman's head.
1964
Jamaican migrant
Jacket front illustration shows a grimacing man wearing overalls with a pencil in a chest pocket. A dark sky is above him.
1965
No harbour
Jacket front illustration shows a small sailboat on open water heading toward a shining sun.
1959
Cicely: the story of a doctor
Jacket front photograph shows Dr. Cicely Williams examining a malnourished child in India in 1950.
1968
The tachí tree
The book jacket illustration shows trees, and on the jacket front, the image of an insect with a pair of human eyes between its appendages. A photograph of the author, Lillian O'Donnell, is on the jacket back flap.
1968
Touch me inside
A photograph of the author, Lauchland Henry, is on the jacket front flap.
1975
Selected poems of Claude McKay
Jacket front has a photograph of the author, poet Claude McKay.
1953
In the Ditch
Jacket photograph shows an African girl standing outside with a row of wooden doors and a group of apartment buildings behind her.
1972
White boy
Jacket front illustration shows a white man and a white woman in the foreground. A bare-chested Afro-Caribbean man with his arms upraised is behind them.
1966
Shadows in the jungle
The front cover illustration shows a woman's head and a uniformed man in the jungle holding an upraised pistol.
1961
Ratoon
The jacket front illustration shows an Afro-Caribbean man, his bare back lined with red lash marks. He faces a lighter-skinned woman wearing a decolletage period gown and holding a parasol; the scene is ambiguous if expectant.
1975
The schoolmaster
1968
Minty Alley
Jacket front has a photograph of a bronze bust of C. L. R. James by artist Errol Lloyd.
1971

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14 Harris, Wilson 14 Mittelhölzer, Edgar 10 Salkey, Andrew 10 Selvon, Samuel 7 Anthony, Michael, 1930- 7 Lamming, George, 1927- 7 Nicole, Christopher 6 Palmer, C. Everard 5 Gerson, Mark 5 Hearne, John, 1926-1994 4 Braithwaite, E. R. (Edward Ricardo) 4 Brathwaite, Kamau, 1930- 4 Clarke, Austin, 1934-2016 4 Lovelace, Earl, 1935- 4 Rhys, Jean 4 Sherlock, Philip Manderson, Sir 3 Carew, Jan R., 1920-2012 3 La Yacona, Maria 3 Lucie-Smith, Edward 3 Naipaul, Shiva, 1945- 3 Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018 3 Patterson, Orlando, 1940- 3 Smith, M. G. (Michael Garfield) 3 Walcott, Derek 3 Williams, Eric Eustace, 1911-1981 2 Abrahams, Robert D., 1905-1998 2 Dathorne, O. R., 1934- 2 De Boissière, Ralph 2 De Lisser, Herbert George, 1878-1944 2 Drayton, Geoffrey, 1924- 2 Edelman, Maurice, 1911-1975 2 Gudmundson, Shirley M. 2 Hutchinson, Lionel Campbell 2 Iremonger, Lucille 2 Kempadoo, Peter 2 Lauchmonen 2 Longman Group 2 MacInnes, Colin 2 Morris, John 2 Searle, Chris 2 St. Omer, Garth 2 Williams, Denis, 1923-1998 2 Wilson, Jeanne, 1920- 1 Abrahams, Peter, 1919-2017 1 Adler, Robin 1 Alderman, Clifford Lindsey 1 Alonso, Luis Ricardo 1 Andrews, Colin 1 Anthony, Lew 1 Arya, Jitendra 1 Asgarally, Azize, 1933- 1 Bagley, Christopher 1 Bahamas Ministry of Tourism; Toogood, Stanley; The Governor's News Bureau. 1 Ball, A. G. (Alexander George) 1 Barrett, Lindsay, 1941- 1 Bartlett, Vernon, 1894-1983 1 Bauer, Jerry 1 Bayley, Viola 1 Berry, Francis 1 Blake, Judith 1 Bottome, Phyllis, 1884-1963 1 Brien, Terence J. 1 Brown, Wayne, 1944-2009 1 Cameron, Tom; McCormick, Ron 1 Cape, Jonathan 1 Carey Jones, N. S. 1 Cargill, Morris; Fleming, Ian, 1908-1964 1 Carter, Dorothy Sharp 1 Carwell, Hattie 1 Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016 1 Catto, Max, 1909-1992 1 Chapman, Esther 1 Charles, Faustin, 1944- 1 Charles, Pearnel, 1936- 1 Chase, Ashton 1 Clarke, Edith, 1896-1979 1 Coard, Frederick McDermott, 1893- 1 Cockett, Mary 1 Collins, Norman, 1907-1982 1 Collins, Wallace Barrymore, 1932- 1 Coral, George; Gerson, Mark 1 Coughtry, Arthur 1 Coulthard, George Robert 1 Courlander, Harold, 1908-1996 1 Cranmore, Frederick, 1948- 1 Creek, F. N. S. (Frederick Norman Smith), 1898-1980 1 Cudjoe, Selwyn R. (Selwyn Reginald) 1 Cuevas Cancino, Francisco M. 1 D'Costa, Jean 1 Dally, Ann 1 Daviot, Gordon, 1896 or 1897-1952 1 Desnoes, Edmundo, 1930- 1 Dimayo, Horace 1 Druce, Robert 1 Drury, W. P. (William Price), 1861-1949 1 Dupuch, Etienne, Sir 1 Durstine, Virginia Gardiner 1 Eales, Norman 1 Easton, Wilfred 1 Eggleston, George Teeple, 1906- 1 Emecheta, Buchi 1 Emtage, J. B. (James Bernard) 1 Fennell, Job Herbert 1 Ferguson, Barry 1 Ferguson, Merrill 1 Fermor, Patrick Leigh 1 Fraser, Fitzroy, 1936- 1 Gardam, Jane 1 Gibson, Graeme 1 Gilfond, Henry 1 Gilkes, Michael 1 Golden, Bob 1 Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888; Hill, Richard, 1795-1872 1 Grace, John 1 Griffiths, Gareth, 1943- 1 Guerra, Ramiro, 1880-1970 1 Guppy, Nicholas 1 Guy, Rosa 1 Guérin, Daniel, 1904-1988 1 Haig, Alec 1 Hamilton, B. L. St. John, 1914- 1 Hargreaves, Elisabeth 1 Harlow, Vincent T. (Vincent Todd), 1898-1961; Madden, A. F. 1 Harrison, Martin 1 Hawley, Harold 1 Hearne, John, 1926-1994; Cargill, Morris 1 Heath, Roy A. K. 1 Helweg-Larsen, Kjeld 1 Hemming, Wilbert Emanuel 1 Hendriks, Arthur Lemière, 1922- 1 Henriques, Fernando 1 Henry, Lauchland 1 Hinds, Donald 1 Hireson, Gordon 1 Hodge, Merle, 1944- 1 Hoetink, H. 1 Huggins, Molly, 1907- 1 Hughes, Richard, 1900-1976 1 Humfrey, Michael, 1936- 1 Jackman, Oliver 1 Jagan, Cheddi 1 James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989 1 James, Louis, 1933- 1 Jayawardena, Chandra 1 Kerr, Madeline 1 Khan, Ismith, 1925- 1 Krementz, Jill 1 La Touché, Jr., C. 1 Lacey, Terry 1 Lagarde 1 Leeson, Robert, 1928- 1 Leslie, David Stuart, 1921- 1 Luke, Harry, Sir, 1884-1969 1 Lynch, Louis 1 Mackenzie, Rhoda Elizabeth 1 Mankowitz, Wolf 1 Manley, Michael, 1924-1997 1 Manley, Norman Washington, 1893-1969 1 Marson, Una, 1905-1965 1 Mau, James A., 1935- 1 Mayne, Roger 1 McCullough, Norman Verrle 1 McKay, Claude, 1890-1948 1 Millette, James, 1933- 1 Mills, John James, 1888-1966 1 Moskos, Charles C. 1 Murrell, Shirley 1 Nagata, Y. 1 Naipaul, Seepersad 1 Nettleford, Rex M., 1933-2010 1 O'Donnell, Lillian 1 Ommanney, F. D. (Francis Downes), 1903- 1 Osbourne, Ivor 1 Parkinson, Cosmo, Sir, 1884- 1 Patterson, Bill 1 Patterson, Sheila, 1918- 1 Peach, Ceri 1 Pietri, Pedro, 1944-2004 1 Pradeau, Janine 1 Puissesseau, René 1 Reid, Victor Stafford, 1913- 1 Reno, Philip 1 Rex, John 1 Richards, Novelle H. 1 Rickards, Colin 1 Riou, Roger, 1909- 1 Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957 1 Roberts, L. D. (Lawrence Donovan) 1 Robinson, Carey, 1924- 1 Rooksby, Denis 1 Rousseau, Patrick H. O., 1934- 1 Roy, Namba 1 Rupp, Paul 1 Saint Patrick 1 Schwarz-Bart, Simone 1 Scott, Michael, 1789-1835 1 Seyfarth, Fritz 1 Sharp, John 1 Short, Philip 1 St Claire, Yvonne 1 Stamford, Vanessa 1 Stewart, John, 1933- 1 Suschitzky, Wolfgang 1 Swinfen, D. B. 1 Syme, Ronald, 1910-1992 1 Symonds, D. M. (Derrick Maurice) 1 Tanna, Laura 1 Teague, Michael 1 Tey, Josephine, 1896 or 1897-1952 1 The Age (Melbourne, Australia) 1 Thoby-Marcelin, Philippe, 1904-1975; Marcelin, Pierre, 1908- 1 Thompson, R. W. (Reginald William) 1 Toogood, Stanley 1 Tree, Ronald, 1897-1976 1 Tucker, Terry 1 Turner, Adam 1 Turner, Louis, 1942- ; Ash, John 1 Twohig, Margo, active 1975- 1 Underhill, Harold 1 Vestdijk, Simon, 1898-1971 1 Vinell Studios 1 Waddell, D. A. G. (David Alan Gilmour), 1927- 1 Wallace, Susan J. 1 Watson, Edward Anthony 1 Waugh, Alec, 1898-1981 1 Westlake, Donald E. 1 Wickham, Michael 1 Wide World Photos 1 Williams, N. D. (Noel D.), 1921- 1 Wynter, Sylvia