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The friends
The jacket front illustration is of two Black girls, one smiling, the other not, in front of a city skyline with skyscrapers and illuminated signs. A photograph of the author, Rosa Guy, is on the jacket back flap.
1974
Humphrey's ride
Jacket front illustration shows a young Afro-Caribbean man riding a donkey on a road with hills, ocean and sky behind him.
1964
Monty of Montego
Jacket front illustration shows a young Afro-Caribbean boy looking at a bustling produce market in Montego Bay; buildings and palm trees are in the background.
1965
What's become of Anna?
The book jacket photograph is of a young Afro-Caribbean woman wearing a straw hat and holding flowers, with a rocky outcropping and ocean behind her. A photograph of the author, Terry Tucker, is on the jacket back flap.
1972
Ikael Torass
Book jacket has a bright pink ground with light pink and blue circles.
1976
The weather family: a novel
Book jacket shows a room with a desk and numerous weather recording instruments (jacket back) with a door open to a view of stormy beach with a woman walking against the wind (jacket front).
1958
A swarthy boy
A photograph of the author, Edgar Mittelhölzer, is on the jacket back flap.
1963
The life and death of Sylvia
Jacket front illustration shows a woman seated on the step at the entrance to a building. Part of a house, another woman, and palm trees are behind her. A photograph of the author, Edgar Mittelhölzer, is on the jacket back.
1953
A brighter sun: a novel
The jacket front illustration shows a scene outdoors with a man and woman talking on a path, a young woman and man walking toward the viewer, and the back of a child. A house, trees and hills are in the background. The jacket back has a photograph of the author, Samuel Selvon.
1952
The dragon can't dance
The illustration on the jacket front depicts a large colorful festival dragon breathing fire. Two palm trees are behind it, and to the right are two steel pan drums and two drum sticks.
1979
Rum and Coca-Cola
A white man in military uniform stands at the doorway a two-story structure with a sign reading "Pearl of Trinidad Lodge", and speaks with a woman of color who stands on the sidewalk in front of him. The scene is bathed in a golden light. H.D. Carberry's signature is on the flyleaf.
1984
Crab track
A road runs by a house on stilts with animals in the yard; a large crab spans the road and adjacent land.
1973
The games were coming
Jacket front illustration depicts a scene from a bicycle race. A photograph of author Michael Anthony is on the back cover.
1963
Jane's career: a story of Jamaica
1971
Black albino
Jacket front illustration shows an Afro-Caribbean mother hugging an albino child.
1961
The Faces of Love
A naked woman sits up in bed and looks away from the man sleeping beside her.
1957
The cup and the lip: a romance
Illustration on jacket front shows a white man in a tuxedo holding the shoulder of a seated white woman; behind them stands an Indian woman in a sari. Three red flowers are in the lower right-hand corner.
1956
In the castle of my skin
The jacket front illustration shows a boy looking out a window at a ramshackle village and an ox pulling a cart. The title page of the book is inscribed by the author, and also bears H. D. Carberry's signature. The author has autographed the book next to his portrait (opposite title page). Drawings of two men, one in front view, the other in back view, are on the front and back endpapers.
1953
Another home, another country
Front cover illustration shows a boy crouched outdoors at the water's edge, with palm trees and mountains behind him.
1969
Masks
Jacket front has an image of an African mask with two horns at the top. A photograph of the author, Kamau Brathwaite, is on the jacket back flap.
1968
Choice of straws
Jacket front illustration shows a Black woman in a dress with a keyhole cutout in the bodice; a white man wearing a suit jacket and tie is behind her. A photograph of the author, E. R. Braithwaite, is on the jacket back.
1965
Kill 'em all
A photograph of the author, A. G. Ball, is on the jacket back.
1976
Jean Rhys
The book jacket front features a photograph of author Jean Rhys.
1978
A high wind in Jamaica
Jacket front illustration depicts palms tree bending in the wind, and a parrot being blown backwards by the wind.
1947
Christopher
The front cover illustration shows a woman with a kerchief on her head looking towards a boy holding a bouquet of flowers. A photograph of the author, Geoffrey Drayton, is on the back cover.
1972
Morant Bay and other poems
1961
Young Commonwealth poets '65
The text "208 poems, 22 countries, 224 pages, 140 poets" runs across the back and front covers.
1965
Select documents on British colonial policy, 1830-1860
1968
Teach yourself cricket
Jacket front photograph depicts the renowned cricket player Len Hutton just after hitting the ball with his bat.
1950
Jamaican song and story: Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes
Front cover illustration shows a man gesturing with his arms.
1966
The middle passage: impressions of five societies, British, French and Dutch, in the West Indies and South America
1974
Inward hunger: the education of a prime minister
1969
A history of Barbados
A photograph of workers harvesting sugar cane is on the jacket front.
1972
Bustamante: anthology of a hero
A photograph of Alexander Bustamante is on the jacket front. A photograph of the author, B. St. John Hamilton, is on the front flap.
1978
Black Caribbean
Jacket front illustrations depict several exoticized and stereotypical images of Caribbean people.
1946
Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica
Jacket front photograph shows an Afro-Caribbean woman's face; jacket back photograph shows a landscape with a waterfall.
1965
The sociology of political independence: a study of nationalist attitudes among West Indian leaders
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 front of "Social change and images of the future: a study of the pursuit of progress in Jamaica" (Schenkman Publishing Co., 1968). A photograph of the author, Charles C. Moskos, Jr. is on the jacket back flap.
1967
From Columbus to Castro: the history of the Caribbean, 1492-1969
Book jacket illustration is a detail from William Clark's 1823 aquatint "Carting And Putting Sugar-hogsheads On Board, Antigua".
1970
Anansi and the alligator eggs = Anansi y los huevos del cocodrilo
Book jacket front and back illustrations depict Anansi in the form of a spider, with a wicker basket, confronting an alligator and her eggs.
1975
Maroon boy
Book jack illustration depicts an Afro-Caribbean man fighting on a quay with a white man wielding a cutlass. Behind them (on the jacket back), a number of white men approach, wielding cutlasses.
1974
Last cool days
A photograph of the author, John Stewart, is on jacket back flap.
1971
The self lovers
The jacket front has a photograph of a reclining bikini-clad woman in two separate circles, as if seen through binoculars.
1968
With a Carib eye
Jacket front illustration shows a view of the shore with a palm tree and a person looking out over the water. A photograph of the author, Edgar Mittelhölzer, is on the jacket back flap.
1958
The wounded and the worried
Jacket front illustration shows the head of a man with downcast eyes behind a row of vertical bars.
1962
The weather in Middenshot: a novel
Jacket front illustration shows three women braving three different forms of inclement weather.
1952
Uncle Paul
1963
Guiana boy
Jacket front has a line drawing illustration of a man and a boy going fishing.
1960
Wilson Harris and the Caribbean novel
1975
The whole armour
1962
Palace of the peacock
Jacket front illustration is of a peacock.
1960
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