New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($4.95), yellow topstain; [10],179pp. Cloth very lightly faded along margins, else a Near Fine copy overall. Collection of five novellas and short stories by the Cuban author and musicologist. More

London & Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. First British Edition. Octavo (22.2cm); illustrated dust jacket with £3.95 price intact; red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine; 191pp. Jacket shows one small, closed tear at top back, along with some general smudging and dust-soiling to surface. Boards square with..... More

Brooklyn, NY: Palm Tree Enterprises, 1987. Stated First Edition, First Printing 1987. Small, slim quarto (23cm); publisher's blue and white pictorial card wrappers; [8],108pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Covers shelfworn with light fading and some creasing at corners and along spine. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Anthology of work..... More

[Oakland, CA?]: s.i., [ca. 1953]. Photo-illustrated broadsheet palm card (22.5x8.5cm) promoting three records by Bahamian calypso and goombay performer Blind Blake (1915-1986), adorned with a halftone photograph of Blake performing. Contemporary rubber-stamp of the Yerba Buena Music Shop in Oakland, California on recto, mild toning and a couple tiny nicks; Very Good... More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. Uncorrected Proof. Small, slim octavo; publisher's light olive card wrappers printed in black with repeating Cape logo; 78pp. Very light wear and toning, else a Very Good to Near Fine example. Early uncorrected proof copy in generic publisher's wrappers of the Saint Lucian poet's..... More

[Mexico]: Ediciones ERA, [1969]. Third Edition. Small quarto; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; 662pp. Jacket quite chipped and worn at margins with several closed tears and wrinkling, boards bumped and rubbed with brief exposure at spine ends and corners, ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a Good to..... More

New York: Viking Press, 1973. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($6.95); xxx,95pp.; three leaves of full color plates, text illus. throughout by the author. Light wear and toning to jacket margins, minor dust-soiling, corners nudged, front flap starting to split, else Very..... More

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1954. Book Club Edition. Signed by George Lamming at title page with brief inscription. Octavo; illustrated dust jacket; green cloth boards stamped in red; illustrated endpapers; 312pp. Dust jacket chipped and creased along edges and spine sunned. Light wear to edges of boards and rippling..... More

New York: Vanguard Press, [1934]. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's tan cloth, decorative spine lettered in green, dark green topstain; [6],297pp. Spine a bit cocked and boards very slightly bowed, light soil to top textblock edge, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy of the author's novel of..... More

London: Cassell & Company, Limited, [1886]. Reprint. Octavo. 328 pp. + advertisements. Blue cloth stamped in gilt; floral endpapers. Light wear to edges; corners bumped; spine ends nudged. Binding sound. Contemporary gift inscription dated 1888 to front flyleaf; interior else unmarked. A Very Good copy of the English abolitionist's novel..... More

St. Augustine, Trinidad: University of the West Indies, 1972. Later issue, with 1969 to title page but 1972 to wraps. Quarto (27.5cm); publisher's pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 21pp. Wrappers rather toned and lightly edge worn, else Very Good and sound. More

London: The Women's Press, 1985. First Edition, wrapper issue. Octavo. 144 pp. Illustrated wraps. A touch of rubbing to edges of wraps. Binding sound and pages unmarked; Near Fine. Debut novel by the Jamaican-British writer, following eleven-year-old Hyacinth's experience moving from the warmth and familiarity of Kingston to..... More

Paris: Chez Bechet, 1824. First Edition. Two volumes; octavos (21.5cm); contemporary French wallpaper wrappers of teal glazed paper with a blue-black floral design (wastepaper from a copy of Le Cid used on front pastedown of Vol. I); [6],xxiii,[1],279,[1]; [6],318,[2]pp. Wrappers quite chipped and worn, both upper wrappers separated but present..... More