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Agriculture, Trade and Food Security : Issues and Options in the WTO Negotiations from the Perspective of Developing Countries. Report and papers of an FAO Symposium held at Geneva on 23-24 September 1999. Vol. I [and] Vol. II : Country case studies

By: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Commodities and Trade Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, 2000,

Seller ID: 111224

(Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations). Agriculture, Trade and Food Security : Issues and Options in the WTO Negotiations from the Perspective of Developing Countries. Report and papers of an FAO Symposium held at Geneva on 23-24 September 1999. Vol. I [and] Vol. II : Country casestudies. Rome : Commodities and Trade Division, Food and Agriculture Organ ization of the United Nations, 2000. Pp (2),iii-x,(2),1-174; (2),iii-viii,(2),3-350,(2). 8vo, green card covers, lettered in black. Contents : Vol. I.Part One - Report of the Symposium. 1. Introduction. 2. Agriculture, Trade ...
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Alluring Antilles : A Cruising Guide To The West Indies. 1st US in dj

By: RIGG, J. Linton

Price: $30.00

Publisher: 1963,

Seller ID: 23491

RIGG, J. Linton. The Alluring Antilles : A Cruising Guide To The West Indies. Illustrated. Princeton : D. Van Nostrand Co., (1963). First Edition. Pp 267. Lg 8vo, blue cloth. Toy 2909, Morris & Howland p.114. "J. Linton Rigg,who was born and raised on the island of jamaica, has an unusually sympath etic understanding and knowledge of the West Indian people, their customs and outlook on life. To gather accurate, precise and ample information abouteach island under different conditions of weather, season, and circumstanc e, the author spent almost two years, 1960-1962, visiting every one on ...
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Autobiography of My Mother. First Edition in dustjacket, signed

By: KINCAID, Jamaica

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Farrar Strauss Giroux, New York, 1996, ISBN:0374107319

Seller ID: 106189

KINCAID, Jamaica. The Autobiography of My Mother. New York : Farrar StraussGiroux, (1996). First Edition. Pp (12),3-228,(2). 8vo, brown cloth, black lettering to front board and spine. "Jamaica Kincaid's new novel is the haunting, deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, was delivered to his laundress as an infant, bundled uplike his clothes: 'It is possible that he would have expected better care for one than the other, but which one I do not know, because he was a ver...
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Behold the West Indies. in dj.

By: OAKLEY, Amy Oakley, Thornton

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Appleton-Century, New York, 1941,

Seller ID: 55708

OAKLEY, Amy. Behold the West Indies. Illustrated by Thornton Oakley. N.Y.: D. Appleton-Century, 1947. Pp. 540. Frontis., maps to endpapers, and numerous illustrations to text, some full page. 8vo, mustard cloth. Comitas, Caribbeana 1900-1965, 3.224. Amy and Thornton Oakley record their impressions of Nassau, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Leeward and Windward Islands, Guadalupe, Martinique, Barbados, Trinidad, Tobago, the Dutch West Indies, Venezuela, Columbia, and Panama. Cocked, boards somewhat soiled, ow very good solid copy, in fair price...
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Being Brown : A Very Public Life. First Edition in dustjacket, Signed copy

By: BROWN, Rosemary

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Random House, Toronto, 1989, ISBN:0394220501

Seller ID: 93605

BROWN, Rosemary. Being Brown : A Very Public Life. Toronto : Random House, (1989). First Edition. Pp (8),1-248,+ 8 pp plates. Index. 8vo, brown cloth,gilt lettering to spine. ”Rosemary Brown is one of Canada's most dynamic a nd outspoken personalities. Whether talking as a politician, mother educator, her views are always insightful and highly respected. In Being Brown, Rosemary writes about the people and events she has known and witnessed – from her childhood in Jamaica and the family life that helped to shape her early views of life, to her rise within Canada's social fabric, as a politicia...
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Black Angels. First Edition in dustjacket.

By: RITCHIE, C.T

Price: $30.00

Publisher: : 1959

Seller ID: 39386

RITCHIE, C.T. Black Angels. [Jacket design by Dick Hart]. London and New York : Abelard-Schuman, (1959). First Printing. Printed in Great Britain. Pp. (8),9- 256. With a map opposite p.9. 8vo (137 x 203 mm), orange-brown cloth, with gilt lettering to spine. Laugher p.478. Cicero Theodore Ritchie (b. 1914, Halifax, Nova Scotia - d. 1984). An historical novel arranged in 25 chapters. With a foreword. "The year is 1685. Jeffries, Lord Chief Justice of England, is busy condemning the last of Monmouth's defeated rebels. The men of Roebury in Wiltshire have been hanged by his lieu...
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Black Caribbean. First Edition

By: THOMPSON, R.W.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Macdonald & Co., London , 1946,

Seller ID: 98405

THOMPSON, R.W. Black Caribbean. Decorated by W.A. Redgrave. London : Macdonald & Co., (Publishers) Ltd., (October 1946). First Printing. Pp [i]-vi,(2),9-286,(2). Illustrated. Map Endpapers. 8vo, black cloth, gilt lettering tospine, top edge dyed blue. Contents : Part I. – The Road to the Isles. 1. The Lady is Vulnerable. 2. Mid-Ocean. 3. The Basket is Late. 4. Straws in the Wind. 5. New World - New York. Part II. – The Blessed Isle. 6. Black Paradise Island. 7. The First Island March. 8. Rum Sour. Part III. – The Spanish Main. 9. "On the Wings of the Morning." 10. The Never Never Land....
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British Historians and the West Indies.

By: WILLIAMS, Eric

Price: $20.00

Publisher: P.N.M. Publishing Company, Port-au-Spain, Trinidad, 1964,

Seller ID: 82982

WILLIAMS, Eric. British Historians and the West Indies. Port-au-Spain, Trinidad : P.N.M. Publishing Company Limited, 1964. Pp (2),[i]-vii,(1),[1]-187,(3). 8vo, illustrated white and red card covers. Contents : 1. British Historical Writing in the Slavery Period. 2. The World's Britain's Oyster. 3. British Historical Writing, 1830-1880. 4. The Neo-Fascism of Thomas Carlyle.5. British Historical Writing and the West Indies, 1830-1880. 6. The Backg round to the Jamaica Rebellion of 1865. 7. The Jamaica Rebellion of 1865. 8. The British Intellectuals and the Jamaica Rebellion. 9. The Economic Ecli...
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Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century. Archon Reprint in dustjacket

By: HARING, C.H

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Archon Books, Hamden, Conn. , 1966,

Seller ID: 34907

HARING, C.H. The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century. Hamden,Conn.: Archon Books, 1966. Pp (4),v-viii,(2),1-298,(6), + folding map fron tispiece + 11 leaves of maps and plans. 8vo, gold cloth, black lettering tospine. Gosse, My Pirate Library, pp.41-42: "This most scholarly and intere sting work"; Catalogue of the Library of the National Maritime Museum, Vol 4. Piracy and Privaterring 243 : "An invaluable study". A reprint edition of a classic work first published by Methuen in 1910. Contents include: 1 . Introductory : The Spanish Colonial System - The Freebooter...
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Canada in Us Now : The First Anthology of Black Poetry and Prose in Canada. First Edition

By: HEAD, Harold (ed.) BRAND, Dionne CLARKE, Austin WESLEY, Gloria

Price: $120.00

Publisher: NC Press,, 1976 : 1976

Seller ID: 67825

ISBN-13: 9780919600409

HEAD, Harold, (ed.). Canada in Us Now : The First Anthology of Black Poetry and Prose in Canada. Toronto : NC Press, Ltd., 1976. First Edition. "Printed in Canada". Pp (6),7-144. With 19 b&w photos (one for each author) in the text. 8vo (134 x 209 mm), photo-illustrated card covers, with black lettering to red spine. Harold Head (b. 1936, South Africa) was living in Toronto at the time of publication. We Have Come, an introduction by Harold Head. Oddly Ann Wallace's name is left out of the list on the rear cover. Contributing authors: abbott j. anderson (b. Jamaica) : "Psalm...
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Caribbean Life and Culture : A Citizen Reflects. First Edition in dustjacket, Signed

By: PHILLIPS, Fred, Sir

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Heineman Publishers (Caribbean) Limited, Kingston, Jamaica, 1991, ISBN:9766051240

Seller ID: 47011

PHILLIPS, Fred, Sir. Caribbean Life and Culture : A Citizen Reflects. Kingston, Jamaica: Heineman Publishers (Caribbean) Limited, (1991). Pp. 252. 8vo, red cloth. Very good in dustjacket. Author's signed gift inscription to flyleaf. 75.00
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Celebration : Collected Liturgical and Folk Songs. signed

By: LUNG, Richard Ho

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Jesuit Music Ltd., Kingston, Jamaica, 1978,

Seller ID: 111686

LUNG, Richard Ho, Fr. Celebration : Collected Liturgical and Folk Songs. With Chords and Vocal Arrangements vby Bart Hopkin and Others. Copied and Illustrated by Bart Hopkin. Kingston, Jamaica : Jesuit Musc Ltd., 1978. Pp (2),3-112. Illustrated. 4to, tan card covers, lettered illustrated in brown, with a blank spine. Very good. Signed with inscription by the author. 30.00
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Civilising Subjects : Colony and Metropole in the English Imagination, 1830-1867. First Paperback Printing

By: HALL, Catherine

Price: $30.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2002, ISBN:0226313352

Seller ID: 112714

HALL, Catherine. Civilising Subjects : Colony and Metropole in the English Imagination, 1830-1867. Chicago and London : The University of Chicago Press, (2002). First Paperback Printing. Pp (4),[v]-xviii,[1]-556,(2). Illustrated. Map. Index. 8vo, illustrated red card covers, lettered in white and orange. How did the English get to be English? Catherine Hall argues that theidea of empire was at the heart of mid-19th century self-imagining. This s tudy of Englishness explores the cultural agenda of self-construction and home and abroad.. Contents : Introduction. Prologue : The Making of an Imper...
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Columbus : The story of Don Cristobal Colon, Admiral of the Ocean, and his four voyages westward to the Indies according to contemporary sources retold and illustrated by Björn Landström. In slipcase.

By: COLUMBUS, Christopher). LANDSTROM, Bjorn

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Macmillan, New York, 1967,

Seller ID: 17558

(COLUMBUS, Christopher). LANDSTRÖM, Björn. Columbus : The story of Don Cristobal Colon, Admiral of the Ocean, and his four voyages westward to the Indies according to contemporary sources retold and illustrated by Björn Landström. New York : The Macmillan Company, (1967). Pp (6),7-207,(1). Double column. Illustrated. 4to, red cloth. Sections: Preface; The World Picture; West to the East; Cristoforo Colombo of Genoa; Cristovão Colom in Lisbon, Cristóbal Colón in Castile; The Agreement; Crews and Equipment; Southwest by South; Crossing the Ocean; Guanahani, Island of the Saviour; The Quest for G...
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Columbus : The story of Don Cristobal Colon, Admiral of the Ocean.

By: COLUMBUS, Christopher). LANDSTROM, Bjorn

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Macmillan, New York, 1967,

Seller ID: 16797

(COLUMBUS, Christopher). LANDSTRÖM, Björn. Columbus : The story of Don Cristobal Colon, Admiral of the Ocean, and his four voyages westward to the Indies according to contemporary sources retold and illustrated by Björn Landström. New York : The Macmillan Company, (1967). Pp (6),7-207,(1). Double column. Illustrated. 4to, red cloth. Sections: Preface; The World Picture; West to the East; Cristoforo Colombo of Genoa; Cristovão Colom in Lisbon, Cristóbal Colón in Castile; The Agreement; Crews and Equipment; Southwest by South; Crossing the Ocean; Guanahani, Island of the Saviour; The Quest for G...
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Columbus : The story of Don Cristobal Colon, Admiral of the Ocean. in dj

By: COLUMBUS, Christopher). LANDSTROM, Bjorn

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Macmillan, New York, 1967,

Seller ID: 17557

(COLUMBUS, Christopher). LANDSTRÖM, Björn. Columbus : The story of Don Cristobal Colon, Admiral of the Ocean, and his four voyages westward to the Indies according to contemporary sources retold and illustrated by Björn Landström. New York : The Macmillan Company, (1967). Pp (6),7-207,(1). Double column. Illustrated. 4to, red cloth. Sections: Preface; The World Picture; West to the East; Cristoforo Colombo of Genoa; Cristovão Colom in Lisbon, Cristóbal Colón in Castile; The Agreement; Crews and Equipment; Southwest by South; Crossing the Ocean; Guanahani, Island of the Saviour; The Quest for G...
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Consequences of Class and Color : West Indian Perspective. pbk original.

By: LOWENTHAL, David and Lambros COMITAS, eds. COMITAS, Lambros, ed. WALCOTT, Derek JAMES, C.L.R.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Anchor Press/Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1973, ISBN:038504402x

Seller ID: 76766

LOWENTHAL, David and Lambros COMITAS, (eds.). Consequences of Class and Color : West Indian Perspective . Edited and introduced by David Lowenthal andLambros Comitas. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press, Doubleday, 1973. First Anc hor Books edition. A Doubleday Anchor Original. Pp. xx,[1]-334,(6) of ads at rear. Small 8vo, illustrated black card covers. Mass market paperback. Contents: 1. Marcus Garvey's "The Race Question in Jamaica"; 2. C.V.D. Hadley's "Personality Patterns, Social Class, and Aggression in the British West Indies"; 3. Rex Nettleford's "National Identity and Att...
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Corsair. First Edition in dustjacket

By: POPE, Dudley

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Secker & Warburg, London, 1987, ISBN:0436377543

Seller ID: 73706

POPE, Dudley. Corsair: a novel. London : Alison Press / Secker & Warburg, (1987). First Edition. Pp. (8),1-193(3). 8vo, blue cloth with gilt letteringto spine. The third Pope novel to feature the figure of Ned Yorke, Admiral of the Brethren of the Coast, a buccaneer whose freedom is threatened equa lly by Spanish marauders and by the suspicious English governor of Jamaica.Remainder mark to bottom edge, previous owner's name inked to flyleaf, els e very good in price-clipped dustjacket. 35.00
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Corsair. 1st UK in dj.

By: POPE, Dudley

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Secker & Warburg, 1987,

Seller ID: 30002

POPE, Dudley. Corsair: a novel. L: Secker & Warburg, (1987). First UK Edition. Pp 193. 8vo, blue cloth. The third Pope novel to feature the figure of Ned Yorke, Admiral of the Brethren of the Coast, a buccaneer whose freedom is threatened equally by Spanish marauders and by the suspicious English governor of Jamaica. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else vg in dj. 60.00
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Courting of Dinah Shadd and other stories AND The Courting of Dinah Shadd: A Contribution to a Bibliography of the Writings of Rudyard Kipling. FirstAmerican Edition.

By: KIPLING, Rudyard. LANG, Andrew. Harper's Franklin Square Library, 680.

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Harper and Brothers, New York, 1890,

Seller ID: 107655

KIPLING, Rudyard. The Courting of Dinah Shadd and other stories. With a biographical and critical sketch by Andrew Lang. New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, September 1890. Harper’s Franklin Square Library, 680Pp. (6),[vii]-xii,[1]-182,(2) of ads, including frontispiece. 8vo, printed bluish-green wraps, blue lettering to front cover and spine. WITH The Courting of Dinah Shadd: A Contribution to a Bibliography of the Writings of Rudyard Kipling. (Jamaica, Queensborough, NY: The Marion Press), [ca. 1898]. Pp. (4),1-20,(8) including colophon. 8vo, printed sewn blue paper wraps, black lette...
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