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1983UKINTHE01LRFarrar Straus Giroux 1983. Very Good. Kincaid Jamaica. At the Bottom of the River. New York City: Farrar Straus Giroux 1983. 82pp. 8vo. 1/4 Cloth. Book condition: Very good. There are three small moisture stains to fabric and two other tiny stains to board of front cover. Farrar, Straus, Giroux hardcover books
1983WRCLIT27764New York: Farrar 1983. Cloth and boards. First edition of the Antigua-born U.S. resident author's first book. Fine in dust jacket. Farrar hardcover books
1985278501New York: Vintage 1985. Softcover. Fine. Paperback edition. Fine in wrappers. Inscribed by Kincaid to a relative of author Nicholas Delbanco. Author's first book a collection of stories many of which appeared in The New Yorker for whom the author continues to write. Vintage unknown books
198412200London: Picador 1984. First British edition. Cloth. Fine and except for slight aging of leaves about as new in a very rubbed and scuffed but untorn very good- dust jacket. 82 pp. 8vo. Ten stories comprise this first book by the author. Picador hardcover books
198351466New York: Farrar Straus Giroux 1983. First Edition. First Printing a review copy with the publisher's Compliments slip laid in. Octavo 21cm; orange paper and green cloth-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; x824pp. Signed by the author on the half title page. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket unclipped priced $9.95 with some mild external wear. Attractive copy of the Antiguan-American author's first book and first collection of short fiction. Farrar, Straus, Giroux unknown books
1983162391New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1983. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 82 pages. Kincaid's first book a slim collection of ten short pieces. A close to near fine copy with a small former owner signature and small spot to the front free endpaper in a close to near fine price clipped dust jacket with a tiny moisture spot to the top of the rear panel that is only visible from the verso. Signed by Kincaid on the title page. Farrar Straus and Giroux unknown books
198367184NY: Farrar Straus Giroux 1983. First edition. 82 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with lightly sunned spine. Her first book. Review slip laid in. NY: Farrar Straus Giroux unknown books
198387400NY:: Farrar Straus and Giroux. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. 0374106606 . The author's first book. Stated first printing. SIGNED by the author on a tipped-in front endpage. Very good in a very good dust jacket. ; Signed by Author . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hardcover books
198334974NY: Farrar Straus and Giroux. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. 0374106606 . The author's first book. Stated first printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
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
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
188625455Jamaica L.I. New York: Republican Club 1886. 6 pages; printed at Jamaica Queens L.I. New York by Long Island Farmer Print; back cover with American flag illustration. Officers of the club for 1886 were Richard C. McCormick President; William Dykes Vice Pres.; Samuel S. Aymar Sec.; Henry M. Haviland Treasurer. ".The object of the Club shall be to unite the Republicans of the town under a central and permanent organization for consultation and action in the interest of the Republican part; and to provide them a pleasant place of resort where access may be had to political papers and documents and social intercourse may be promoted." Approx. 6" x 9 1/4" size; side-sewn. Paper a little darkened a few spots dustiness; top corner chipped away; in good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Republican Club paperback books
1662250234Southampton House England 1662. 1 bifolium 11-3/4 x 8-1/4 in. accomplished entirely in manuscript. Docketed verso: "Sr Tho. Whetstones warrant for £100 out of the privy seals dormant. indistinct initials follow.". 1 vols. 4to. Former fold lines per usual; some surface soil to recto of document; heavy surface soil to verso of integral cognate; small perimeter chips and light distress. 1 bifolium 11-3/4 x 8-1/4 in. accomplished entirely in manuscript. Docketed verso: "Sr Tho. Whetstones warrant for £100 out of the privy seals dormant. indistinct initials follow.". 1 vols. 4to. According to David F. Marley's Pirates of the Americas Sir Thomas Whetstone 1630/31-1668 was a nephew of Oliver Cromwell "reduced from a Commonwealth naval Commodore into an impoverished West Indian rover before dying in Spanish hands." <br/>Whetstone is described by ODNB as a naval officer and adventurer and a son of the favorite sister of the protectorate. Through nepotism per the protector's "misplaced patronage" Whetsone quickly rose through the naval ranks. He ascended from a volunteer on Penn's flagship in the 1654 expedition to Hispaniola was given command of a ship on the return voyage home and eventually commanded a squadron cruising the waters between Malta and Crete.<br/>Whetstone soon became a man of questionable integrity. He flouted orders sold grain seriously needed to sustain the fleet for his own profit quarreled with officers and in general showed high levels of insolence incompetence and dallied onshore avoiding naval duties. <br/>Cromwell's death changed Whetstone's fortunes. When it became apparent to political forces that his usefulness as a pawn to control the naval fleet was insignificant Whetsone returned to England at the restoration impoverished and spent. By 1661 he was in a debtor's jail in Marshalsea where he became a royal nuisance by "bombarding" the government for employment and begging relatives for money. Finally to put this embarrassment out of harm's way the King agreed in April 1662 to give Whetstone £100 and to establish him as a Jamaican planter. The money was considered "royal bounty for his encouragement in settling a plantation in the Isle of Jamaica." Additionally Whetsone was given twelve indentured men to help him establish a foothold in the New World. <br/>Here then is the material evidence that propels Whetstone towards his destiny in the West Indies. The document is signed "T. Southampton" by Sir Lawrence Tanfield Earl of Southampton Keeper of the Privy Seal. Addressed to and directing Sir Robert Pye auditor of the exchequer and indicating that he is to give Sir Thomas Whetstone £100 ". as of his Majesty's free gift for his incouragement sic in settling a plantation in the Island of Jamaica." With this document a new chapter in Whetstone's life opened upon his arrival in Jamaica in 1662.<br/>As Marley notes Whetstone's first actions in the West Indies was not to become a sedentary planter but to be a privateer. With an Indian crew he began operating and raiding off the Cuban coast. Then personally providing recent intelligence to the infamous Sir Christopher Myngs 1625-1666 an English admiral and pirate whose riotous atrocities with his buccaneers were legendary Whetstone joined in Myngs' 1662 sacking of Santiago de Cuba. Myngs was hated by the Spanish and famed for his unbridled cruelty. His atrocities next year in 1663 with pirates Henry Morgan and Abraham Blauvelt would alarm and forced King Charles II to call for a moratorium on further attacks. In the same year Whetstone was likewise endeavoring: on record as commander of a 7-gun Spanish prize manned by sixty souls and noted as one of the "private ships of war belonging to Jamaica."<br/>In addition to his exploits at sea Whetsone was heavily involved with the arrest and deposal of the Jamaican Speaker of Assembly Samuel Long on charges of treason in 1664. By 1666 Whetsone himself became Speaker of the Jamaica House of Assembly. Circa this period he was captured by the Spanish on Providencia Island carried as a prisoner to Portobelo and then force-marched to Panama City where he was tossed in the dungeon. So angry were the Spanish at Whetstone's piratical depredations the Governor Juan Perez de Guzman wrote to Madrid blaming the man for planning "all the damage done on these coasts." Whetsone died in Spanish captivity in 1667. See ODNB; Marley Pirates of the Americas pp. 399-405 unknown books
1890259881Jamaica 1890. Octagonal paper wrappers tied at spine with blue satin ribbon partial doilie inset to front cover lettering on cover partially chipped 2 complete doilies laid-in. Doilies in fine condition. Octagonal paper wrappers tied at spine with blue satin ribbon partial doilie inset to front cover lettering on cover partially chipped 2 complete doilies laid-in. Two elaborate doilies made from plant parts native to Jamaica. unknown books
1999140009New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1999. 36p. 5x7.5 inches two excerpts together printed in blue ink; dos-a-dos in stapled blue wraps nice production with rubricated title pages and tissue-guard separator. Limited edition chapbook promoting the two books to be published by FS&G in 2000. Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books
175119420Londres i.e. Paris: Chez Nourse 1751. First edition in French. Joints rather rubbed but sound; some light wear and foxing; a very good copy. 2 vols 12mo contemporary calf leather labels gilt spines 4 285 1; 2 248 pages. 6 folding plates signed N. B. de Poilly. Dans ce tems l‡ le fameux Edouard Teach communÈment appellÈ Barbe noire infestoit les Mers de l'Amerique. On ne vit guËres d'homme plus sanguinaire. Sa cruautÈ alloit jusqu'‡ barbarie. Son nom devint la terreur gÈnÈrale & quelques Gouverneurs ayant nÈgligÈ de le pousuivre il suspendit presque entierement le commerce de certaines Colonies du Nord. It Ètoit nÈ ‡ la Jamaique de fort honnÃtes parens. Sa mere y vit encoutre. . . . Il fut tuÈ & sa tÃte portÈe ‡ la Virginie o˘ elle fut attachÈe au bout d'une perche." Often called a translation of an abridgement of Hans Sloane but quite clearly on comparison of texts a translation of Charles Leslie's New and Exact Account of Jamaica Edinburgh 1739 this translation attributed supposedly to Joseph Raulin. Whether Leslie drew on Sloane is unclear though Leslie appears in fact to have been a Jamaica resident who had met family members of that notorious local figure Blackbeard. Chez Nourse, unknown books
199129481Columbia: American Audio Prose Library. Fine. 1991. Plastic Case. 1556443633 . One 60 minute audio cassette. Fine in a fine plastic case. . American Audio Prose Library unknown books
183937001London 1839. 12 1 blank 1 docket pp. Folio with caption title as issued. New stitching. Very Good.<br/><br/> Reports are printed "on the actual state of the labouring population and sugar cultivation" with disturbing news that the local magistrate prevents "the labourers from settling and working upon the properties on which they are located." The circumstances under which the laborers work are "wholly unsatisfactory" and further measures are necessary "to protect the rights of the emancipated population of Jamaica. unknown books
183416914London: John Murray 1834. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Original boards. Rebacked printed label laid down some spotting of leaves mostly at front and back. A good copy of this journal by the famous Gothic novelist. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Journals of "Monk" Lewis' two residences in Jamaica in 1815-1816 and in 1817. Printed from the manuscript. The author died at sea while returning to England in 1818. NCBEL 3:743; Peck pp. 168-170; Sabin 40821 John Murray unknown books
199047828New York: Farrar Straus Giroux 1990. First edition fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Presentation copy from the author "For Caroline . With best wishes from the author." <br/><br/> Farrar Straus Giroux unknown books
1990189651New York: Farrar Straus Giroux 1990. Hardcover. 164p. signed by author on titlepage remainder stamp to top corner of front free endsheet an upside-down "P" otherwise very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and gilt price-clipped dj. African American novelist grew up on Antigua and now lives in Vermont. Farrar Straus Giroux hardcover books
1990TB25085New York: Farrar Straus Giroux 1990. First Edition. First printing Fine in 1/4 black cloth and white paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 164 pages of text. Farrar Straus Giroux hardcover books
