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Local government and the Colonies: a report to the Fabian Colonial Bureau (book covers)

1950

Corentyne thunder

Front cover illustration shows two drums.

1970

Nanny-Town

Front cover illustration shows the head and shoulders of an Afro-Caribbean woman. The pattern of her dress merges with the vegetation of a hilly landscape.

1983

Old story time and other plays

Front cover photograph shows a bearded Afro-Caribbean man wearing a jacket and hat and smoking a pipe.

1981

Festival literary anthology: a selection of prizewinning short stories

1987

West Indian poetry: an anthology for schools (2nd ed.)

Front cover illustration depicts a village and adjacent hills with banana trees, and a channel leading out to the sea.

1989

West Indian literature

1979

Firstlings: a collection of poems

1950

Poems of a child's world: an anthology for the Caribbean

The front cover illustration is of two children outdoors in nature. One is standing, holding a book; the other is seated next to a dog.

1969

The colonial legacy in Caribbean literature

Front cover painting shows the head of an Afro-Caribbean man with one eye shut. An image of the head of William Shakespeare is emblazoned on his forehead in a white circle.

1987

New writing in the Caribbean

Front cover illustration shows a hand holding a radiating sun and the words "Carifesta '72". This image is set against a background of leafy shapes and vertical lines.

1972

The Slant of the pen: racism in children's books

The front and back cover illustrations show a silhouette of a fountain pen.

1980

The man in the web, and other folk tales

Front cover illustration shows a two-toed man standing in a spider web suspended between a tree, bushes, and vines.

1959

Caribbean prose: An Anthology for Secondary Schools

A photograph of Andrew Salkey, novelist and editor of this anthology, is on the back cover.

1967

The artist in West Indian society: a symposium

1963

Folk songs of the Caribbean

The front cover image is a Cubist-inspired depiction of a human figure.

1958

Reports and repercussions in West Indian education, 1835-1933

Cover illustration is a graphic of intersecting and overlapping circles.

1968

Thunder (Vol. 6, No. 3)

1974

The economics of development in small countries, with special reference to the Caribbean

1965

Black skin, white masks

Front cover illustration shows the upper torso of a man with alternating light and dark stripes running diagonally across him.

1970

An ocean to ourselves

Front cover illustration depicts a small sailboat with three people aboard.

1973

Havana journal

Front cover photograph shows a peripatetic reader in a factory (person hired to read books and newspapers to the workers on the line) seated in front of a vintage mural of a worker and reading aloud into a microphone.

1971

Sir Henry Morgan, buccaneer and governor

The front cover illustration is a reproduction of an engraving of Welsh privateer Henry Morgan, from a book published in 1684: "The Buccaneers of America: A True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults Committed of Late Years Upon the Coasts of the West Indies by the Buccaneers of Jamaica and Tortuga". A small photograph of the author, W. Adolphe Roberts, is on the back cover.

1952

Kaywana blood

Jacket front illustration shows a woman in a state of semi-undress, standing in a sugar cane field.

1961

Jamaica Lucina: second poems

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

1971

The orchid house

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

1982

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

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

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

Spanish American novel, 1940-1965

1966

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

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

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