Paris: Didot, 1730. Ecrite particulierement sur des Memoires Manuscrits du P. Jean-Baptiste le Pers, Jesuite, Missionnaire a Saint Domingue, & sur les Pieces Originales, qui se conservent au Depot de la Marine. 14 engraved plates (most folding maps), vignettes. 2 volumes, small square 4to, 1/2 calf, ornately gilt spine (rubbed); some pages darkened, worming, few inked markings. Paris: Francois Didot, 1730. Very good. Recounts the island's history from its discovery by Columbus to the 1720s. Author was a Jesuit historian..... More

New York: Book Collectors Society. Illus. x, 350pp. 8vo, original full brown leather. New York: Book Collectors Society, n.d., (circa 1970). Very good One of 250 copies. More

3 vols. 4to, cont. marbled calf, recased; (lacks all maps and plates, except Frontis. in vols. II and III, and 6 folding tables). London: John Stockdale, 1794, 1793, 1801. Mixed edn. "A classic in British Caribbean literature and probably the most famous work in the field. Standard for over a century, and still in many respects the best book on the subject up to the close of the eighteenth century...(Edwards') book is written from the point of view of a...... More

Paris: A. Durant et Pedone-Lauriel, 1877. Ouvrage ecrit d'apres des documents inedits et les papiers historiques et secrets de la famille Louverture. Frontis. portrait of Toussaint Louverture. viii, 402pp. 8vo, later half black morocco; (edges of boards worn, some foxing including margins of portrait, very small tear in margin of first few pages, otherwise very good). Paris: A. Durant et Pedone-Lauriel, 1877. The portrait of Toussaint Louverture is based on a painting of him from the collection of his son..... More

Clintondale: Bleak Beauty, 1988. Black & white photographic illustrations, 63 pages, slim 4to, stiff pictorial wrappers. (Clintondale): Bleak Beauty, (1988). Fine. More

Philadelphia: H. N. Burroughs, 1846. Map. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Image measures 15.75" x 12.5". This map of the West Indies extends from the southern tip of Florida to the northern coast of South America, and from the western tip of Cuba to Barbados in the east. The index includes capitals, cities, and towns, labeled in a stylized manner that complements the region's scattered arrangement of islands. Above the title is a paragraph describing the region and its constituent..... More

London: Albion Press, 1805. Beautifully illustrated with 8 plates, a folding map of Haiti, a folding plan of the city of Cap Francois, and a facsimile. xxiii, errata, 467, 9 page index and 3 pages of advertisements, deckled edges. Scattered foxing with the maps heavily browned. Thick 4to, handsomely rebound in 3/4 black morocco, red leather spine labels. (London): Albion Press, Printed: Published by James Cundee, 1805. First Edition. Very good (+). Internally a tight and bright copy. Among the..... More

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. Signed by Langston Hughes. Translated by Langston Hughes and Mercer Cook. 180 pages, short slim 8vo, blue cloth, edge-worn, rubbed, chipped, and slightly foxed dust wrapper. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1947). Slightly sunned edges, still a very good(+) copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper. Signed and inscribed by Langston Hughes to Jose Ferrer on endpaper: "To Jose Ferrer - Sincerely, Langston Hughes. New York, May 28, 1951." More

32 illus. 292pp. 4to, cloth, New York, 1939. Zoologist's travels in Surinam, Trinidad, Curacao, and Haiti. Very good(-). More

8vo, cloth, d.w.; (d.w. soiled and torn). N.Y. Macmillan, (1956). A novel. More

Woodcuts by Lynd Ward. 8vo, green cloth (quite dust soiled). N.Y.: Literary Guild, 1930. A very good(-) copy. More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989. 427pp. 8vo, 1/2 brown cloth, d.w. New York: Simon and Schuster, (1989). Fine Presentation copy from the author to Harry Belafonte. More