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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

The final passage

Front cover illustration shows a Caribbean seaside landscape viewed through a porthole.

1985

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

At the rendezvous of victory: selected writings

Front cover has photograph of author C. R. L. James.

1984

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

Talking of trees

The cover photograph shows the surf hitting a rocky shoreline, with the sky above.

1985

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

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

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

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

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

Collected poems

1959

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

Tribune story

The jacket front features a photograph of Etienne Dupuch, and a reproduction of the Who's Who entry for his name.

1967

The sun's eye: West Indian writing for young readers (New edition)

The front cover artwork is an abstract painting with various figures.

1989

Language and communication

1976

J. J. Mills: his own account of his life and times

Jacket front has a photograph of the author, J. J. Mills.

1969

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