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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

Jamaica Lucina: second poems

Front cover illustration shows a seaside landscape with hills and palm trees.

1971

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

The orchid house

The front cover illustration is a detail from the 1880 painting "Orchids, Passion Flowers, and Hummingbird" by Martin Johnson Heade.

1982

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

Ancestors: a reinvention of Mother poem, Sun poem, and X/self

Front cover photograph shows a group of children sitting on a railroad track.

2001

Bahamas in poetry

Front cover has photographs of a group of people fishing from a boat.

1971

Malfinis, or, The heart of a child (a trial in purgatory)

1967

West Indian stories

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

1960

New ships: an anthology of West Indian poems for junior secondary schools

Front cover illustration is a line drawing of a mast and two sails above waves.

1971

West Indian narrative: an introductory anthology

Front cover images: a slave with an iron collar around his neck, an advertisement for a slave sale, an Afro-Caribbean man wearing a hat, a palm frond. Back cover images are of a colonial church, and a man with a steel drum.

1966

The four, and other poems

1954

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 naked ghost: and other poems

Covers for a book of poetry.

1984

The islanders and other poems

Front cover image is a monochrome reproduction of the 1897 painting "Vairumati" by Paul Gauguin, from the collection of the Musée dOrsay, Paris. Back cover illustration is a child's drawing of the author, done by his daughter.

1983

Island in the sun

Cover image shows a brown-skinned woman striking a dramatic pose on a beach against a vibrant sunset, gesturing upwards with her arm and head. She is wearing a bandeau top and short sarong.

1959

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

Spanish American novel, 1940-1965

1966

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

Batouala

Front cover photograph shows a bare-chested man with his arms upraised. A photograph of the author, René Maran, is on the back cover.

1973

Bob Marley and the roots of reggae

Photograph of reggae musician Bob Marley on front cover.

1977

The life and times of Little Richard

Front cover has a photograph of African American musician Little Richard.

1985

Discussion and national progress

1959

Report of the Task Force on Tertiary Education

1986

Education in the British West Indies

1968

Revolution to republic

Front cover illustration depicts two bare-chested Afro-Caribbean slaves with shackles and broken chains on their wrists. Below them is a classical-style building with a palm tree in front of it.

1970

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

Lower-class families: the culture of poverty in Negro Trinidad

1971

The origin and development of the people of Jamaica

A map of Jamaica on the front cover shows the three historic counties in Jamaica, as well as the boundaries of the parishes within each. A photograph of author Richard Hart is on the back cover.

1974

From chattel slave to wage earner: a history of trade unionism in Trinidad and Tobago

Front cover illustration shows a slave with shackles on his left arm, and holding cash in his upraised right arm. A photograph of the author, Ron Ramdin, is on the back cover.

1982

Five of the Leewards, 1834-1870

1971

Struggles of the Jamaican people

Front cover illustration depicts the head of a Jamaican. Back cover photograph shows a cheering crowd with arms and fists upraised.

1977

The political economy of the English speaking Caribbean: a summary view. 2nd edition

1973

Small garden--bitter weed: the political economy of struggle and change in Jamaica

Front cover illustration shows a sugar cane plant and with a tall weed growing beside it. Back cover illustration shows a bare-chested man and woman with a baby on her back using machetes to remove weeds next to their garden.

1980

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

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