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198314441New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1983. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Author's first book ten stories. They are: Girl - In the Night - At Last - Wingless - Holidays - The Letter From Home - What I Have Been Doing Lately - Blackness - My Mother- At the Bottom of the River. <br/><br/> Farrar , Straus and Giroux hardcover books
8481364754.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
9788556521101ALFAGUARA. new. Uma hist��ria de amor medo perda e forma��o de carǭter um relato da evolu��o de uma mulher negra caribenha escrito por uma das autoras mais habilidosas da literatura contempor�nea.Poderoso perturbador e emocionante este romance de Jamaica Kincaid conta a hist��ria de Xuela Claudette Richardson filha de m�e caribenha e pai meio escoc�s e meio africano moradora da ilha de Dominica. Sua m�e morre no parto e a garota precisa ent�o encontrar seu lugar no mundo sem o aux�lio materno.Kincaid conduz o leitor pela vida de Xuela com extrema habilidade literǭria: da casa de sua inf�ncia onde ela podia ouvir o canto do mar e da sala com telhado de zinco onde mora como estudante atǸ sua casa da velhice. Seu mundo Ǹ intensamente f�sico cheirando a frutas maduras enxofre e chuva ALFAGUARA unknown
1997Q-0452274664Plume 1997-01-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Plume paperback
1997UKINAUT00FPPlume 1997. Very Good. Kincaid Jamaica. Autobiography of My Mother. New York: Plume 1997. 228pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Light rubbing to edges and former owner's name written in ink to top of inside of front cover. Plume paperback books
199620297NY: Farrar Straus and Giroux. Fine. 1996. Paperback. Advance reading copy paperback. Fine in illustrated wraps. . Farrar, Straus and Giroux paperback books
1990288962North Bennnington VT: Metropolitan Opera House 1990. unbound. very good. Uncommon A.L.S. "Jamaica" inside a greeting card to fellow New Yorker Magazine assistant-editor Betty Guyer gatefold 2 pages in full: "By now you can see Lucy is in a book. You have always been so kind to me with your words of support and I appreciate it greatly. Your life sounds wonderful. I wish it were mine except for where you play golf. I would just sit under a tree. Allen and I have two children now and we are very grateful to them. Perhaps too much so; at 2 and 6 they treat us the way children used to be treated with almost contempt and almost disapproval. It was of course how we wished to treat our own parents but instead of parents we had Gods! I miss the New Yorker too." Accompanied by the original holograph envelope with her full signature.<br/><br/> Antiguan-American novelist essayist and Professor of Black Studies at Harvard University.<br/><br/> Metropolitan Opera House unknown books
1773217477Spanish Town Jamaica 1773. 2 pp with integral address leaf. 1 vols. 12 x 7 1/2 inches. Usual folds a few separations at folds losses to address leaf. 2 pp with integral address leaf. 1 vols. 12 x 7 1/2 inches. An unusual 18th century letter by a widow in Jamaica seeking assistance for her son from her dead husband's brother. Written in somewhat halting English she writes in part: "I beg Leave to acquant sic you. I was the Widdow of your Bother Mr. Chas. Amos who died the 7 of September 1763 and left me with two children a Daughter named Jane Born December the 3 1758 and a Son Born April 18 1762. The girl I have since had the misfortune to loose. The boy named George is still liveing and was yesterday 11 years of age and is I thank God in good health . The reason of my troubling you now is about 18 months agoe my sister myself not being in town had an applycation made to her by Mr. William Bullock in consequence of a letter he had just recd from on Mr. Campble who to to Mr. Bullock by the desire of the Reverend Mr. Spicer to enquire after me and my children and to acquaint me that he had some Hundred pounds in his possession which belongd to my child in rite of his grandfather . I had some thoughts of carrying him to England myself for his education which cannot be well done in this part of the world where we are badly off for proper schools . Since Mr. Amos death I again married Mr. Jacobi who likewise I have been unhappy enough to loose and am at this time under some embarresment with his affairs . unknown books
1991Q-085345745XMonthly Review Press 1991-01-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Monthly Review Press paperback
198915657CBMarkt Erlbach, Raymond Martin Verlag, 1989. 8°, 223 S. mit s/w-Abbildungen, illustr. original Kartonage (Paperback), Erstausgabe untere Ecke des Einbanddeckels und der ersten zwei Seiten mit kleiner Knickspur, Einbandecken minimal berieben, eine zarte Längsfalte auf Buchrücken, sonst gutes, sauberes Exemplar.
1995Q-0395691834Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1995. paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Houghton Mifflin Harcourt paperback
1333585314.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0331442078.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Hardcover in-12, 190 pp., cartonnage editeur, jaquette illustree. TTB exemplaire + TB jaquette. [FL-3][ESC-]
197984943London: Community Education Trust 1979. New Edition. Slim octavo 21.5cm; pictorial wrappers stapled; ii322pp; illus. Inscribed by the author on the inner front cover to Puerto Rican editor translator and literary critic Roberto Marquez: "For Roberto Marquez / with fraternal greetings / Richard Hart / Sept.1981." Gentle sunning to spine touch of dust-soil to rear wrapper; Near Fine. Text of two lectures by the Jamaican historian and politician delivered at the Institute of Jamaica in May 1975 and first published by the Institute in 1977. With a foreword by George Lamming. Uncommon in commerce. 84943. Community Education Trust unknown
159 pages. "Deserted by his wife Estella, Jake is engaged in the symbolic carving of Samson whose story is not unlike his own." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with light to moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
197535234ABBerlin, Safari., (um 1975). 8°. 348 Seiten. Originalleinenband mit Deckelvignette. (Foliiertes und gestempeltes Bibliotheksexemplar mit Nummern, Verleihliste und -tasche). - Ein gut erhaltenes, sauberes Exemplar ohne Eintragungen.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full black cloth boards show small bump on bottom edge. Edge wear to dust jacket. 80 pages. 9 1/4"w x 12 1/8"h. Many color and b&w photos.
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B9781019725726Hardback. New. hardcover
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