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Flight from Montego Bay

Jacket front photograph shows a shadowy arm and hand upraised and another hand gripping the edge of an opening. Through the opening, a boat is visible moving on the water below.

1972

Lydia Bailey

The jacket front illustration shows a portrait of a white woman seated by a window, holding a locket. The portrait is surrounded by drawings of a ship, a group of naked slaves dancing, and military officers on horseback. The endpapers have a map of Haiti.

1947

African writers talking: a collection of interviews

Jacket front has photographs of nine African writers and lists the names of eighteen African writers.

1972

The secret memoirs of Lord Byron: [a novel]

A photograph of the author, Christopher Nicole, is on the jacket back flap.

1978

Of trees and the sea

Jacket front illlustration depicts a beach in a tropical location with a man and woman standing in the water. Another woman is drying herself behind a rock (jacket spine).

1956

The Jilkington drama

A photograph of the author, Edgar Mittelhölzer, is on the jacket back flap.

1965

Old Thom's harvest

Jacket front illustration shows an Afro-Caribbean man wearing a straw hat looking out with an ox, palm trees, water and the sun behind him. A photograph of the author Launchmonen (Peter Kempadoo) is on the jacket back.

1965

The age of the rainmakers

Jacket front illustration is of two hands, the one on the right with the palm facing.

1971

The scholar-man

The jacket front illustration shows a profile view of an Afro-Caribbean man's head, obscured behind a pattern of vertical lines. A photograph of the author, O. R. Dathorne, is on the jacket back flap.

1964

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.

1966

Those who eat the cascadura

Front cover illustration depicts a barbelled fish against a background representing a beach, sea, sky and the sun. A photograph of the author, Samuel Selvon, is on the jacket back flap.

1972

Turn again tiger

The jacket front illustration shows a woman in a sari walking away from a naked brown man and white woman embracing at a forest edge. The jacket back illustration shows a person slumped over the back of a donkey, holding a bottle with a label. On the spine is a person sleeping under a tree.

1958

The adventures of Gurudeva, and other stories

The book title is surrounded by a green frame with a pattern of flowers.

1976

The wine of astonishment

Front cover illustration is of flowers in a vertical design. A photograph of the author, Earl Lovelace, is on the jacket back flap.

1982

The year in San Fernando

Front cover illustration is a green curtain, parted to reveal the book's title.

1965

Island voices: stories from the West Indies

Jacket front illustration shows the silhouette of a man's head in black, against a patterned ground. He wears a collared shirt with a checker pattern, and a bandana tied at his neck.

1970

Big Doc Bitteroot

Jacket front illustration shows a group of people standing outside near a mustachioed man, with an enclosed horse-drawn wagon and a house behind them.

1968

Three Finger Jack's treasure

Jacket front illustration is of two children inside a cave, one holding a flashlight as the other searches. There are two rifles on the ground.

1961

A quality of violence

Jacket front illustration shows two bare-chested muscular men fighting. A photograph of author Andrew Salkey is on the jacket back.

1959

Fever grass

Jacket front illustration shows an Afro-Caribbean woman in a short dress perched on a stool. Behind her on the left is a revolver and marijuana leaves on stems; on the right, two men fight with one another outdoors in water.

1969

The Autumn Equinox

Jacket illustration has a map of a (fictional) Caribbean island.

1959

Natives of my person

Front cover illustration is of a medallion with the bust of a man in 16th century dress, and a ship and island in the water behind him. A photograph of author George Lamming is on the jacket back.

1972

Water with berries

The book jacket has an image of a hand held open, with fingers reaching up and outwards. A photograph of the author, George Lamming, is on the jacket back flap.

1971

Man from the people

Jacket front illustration shows a woman carrying a basket of fruit on her head. Behind her, a man on a platform in front of a political sign gestures to an assembled crowd. A photograph of the author, Lionel Hutchinson, is on the jacket back.

1969

The meeting point

Jacket front has an image of a smiling woman holding a hand to her face. A photograph of the author, Austin C. Clarke, is on the jacket back flap.

1967

Adventure in the Caribbean

Jacket illustration shows an outdoor scene with a boy and girl who appear startled by a dog in their path, a boy being thrown from a rearing horse, and a cliffside roadway leading to a moonit church and cemetery on a hill.

1968

Absolute beginners

Jacket front photograph shows a city street with a young woman walking towards a young man standing on the sidewalk.

1959

The burnt child: an autobiography

Jacket front has two photographs of a young white boy, one with arms upraised and shouting as flames reach towards him, and the other a small portrait set in an oval.

1975

Johncrow: a novel of Jamaica

Front cover illustration shows a large vulture descending from the sky, with mountains in the distance. A photograph of author, Terence J. Brien, is on the jacket back.

1971

Selected poems

The jacket front illustration depicts foliage. A photograph of the author, Derek Walcott, is on the jacket back flap.

1964

Confessions and histories

1964

The banana men

Two multi-colored faces are visible in a red and purple funnel cloud; the face of Fidel Castro is on the left and another man's face is on the right. A United States military helicopter is on the jacket back.

1967

Resistance and Caribbean literature

Book jacket illustration shows three palm trees, their fronds blown by the wind. There is a photograph of the author, Selwyn R. Cudjoe, on the back flap.

1980

The eye of innocence: children and their poetry

Jacket front illustration shows a seated child holding a pencil and looking at a skull, bones and other objects

1965

The colour of their skin

Jacket front illustration shows three heads in profile view, representing African, Caucasian, and Asian peoples.

1969

My mother who fathered me: a study of the family in three selected communities in Jamaica

Jacket front has a montage of photographs of Jamaican people in various environments.

1957

Cricket's brightest summer

Jacket front photograph shows Frank Worrell, captain of the West Indies cricket team, presenting the Frank Worrell Trophy to Richie Benaud, captain of the Australian team, at the end of the series.

1961

The West on trial: my fight for Guyana's freedom

Jacket front photograph is of Cheddi Jagan making a speech. The jacket back photographs are of Jagan with Nehru in Delhi, and of a rally in support of Jagan.

1966

Under an English heaven

Jacket front photograph shows two naked men walking on a beach, their rifles and helmets propped on rocks. The jacket back photograph is of the author, Donald Westlake, seated in the open cargo bay of a military airplane.

1973

"Honorary white": a visit to South Africa

A photograph of the author, E. R. Braithwaite, is on the jacket front.

1975

Journey to an illusion: the West Indian in Britain

Jacket front illustration is a circular design.

1966

Mistress of darkness

Front cover illustration shows a woman in a robe-like garment, with a number of smaller figures of Afro-Caribbean people behind her.

1976

Eltonsbrody: a novel

Jacket front illustration has a staring pair of eyes at the top, and an image of headstones in a graveyard at bottom. A photograph of the author, Edgar Mittelhölzer, is on the jacket back flap.

1960

The waiting room

1967

Tumatumari

1968

Da Silva da Silva's cultivated wilderness: and, Genesis of the clowns

1977

Dumplings in the soup

Jacket front illustration shows a group of figures seemingly moving in different directions.

1963

Moscow is not my mecca

The jacket front illustration depicts Moscow's iconic onion-domed Saint Basil's Cathedral at the left, and the face of an Afro-Caribbean man on the right. A photograph of author Jan Carew is on the jacket back flap.

1964

Good morning, midnight

Jacket illustration shows a street view in Paris in the fading light; the trees are without leaves. A man in an overcoat, his hands in his pockets, approaches the streetside cafe table of a woman wearing a fur coat, a glass of something near her hand.

1967

Tropic gems

Front cover illustration depicts a butterfly. A photograph of the author, Novelle Hamilton Richards, is on the jacket back.

1971

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