Dumas, Alexandre; Sollors, Werner [Editor]; Kover, Tina [Translator]; Kincaid, Jamaica [Foreword];Biblio.com
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2008Q-0812975898Modern Library 2008-06-10. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Modern Library paperback
149944San Francisco: Chronicle Books 1998. First edition of this multidimensional visual portrayal of women’s lives. Quarto original publisher's cloth illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy with a lengthy autograph notecard inscribed by the photographer Mariana Cook to Ruth Bader Ginsburg laid in. The recipient American lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020 and was responsible for some of the most eventful legal decisions of the past half-century. Nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1993 to replace retiring justice Byron White Ginsburg became the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Court after Sandra Day O’Connor. Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender equality and women’s rights winning many arguments before the Supreme Court. During her tenure as associate justice of the Supreme Court Ginsburg received attention for her fiery and passionate dissents that reflected liberal views of the law. She was popularly dubbed “the Notorious R.B.G.†a moniker she later embraced. She authored several important majority opinions related to gender discrimination voting rights and affirmative action in cases such as United States v. Virginia 1996 which struck down the Virginia Military Institute’s male-only admissions policy as violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment Olmstead v. L.C. 1999 in which the Court ruled that mental illness is a form of disability covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and Friends of the Earth Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc. 2000 in which the Court held that residents have standing to seek fines for an industrial polluter that affected their interests and that is able to continue doing so. Fine in a fine dust jacket. From the library of American lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Photographic and literary exploration of the relationships between women across different generations. The book features intimate black-and-white portraits of grandmothers mothers and daughters accompanied by personal narratives that reflect on themes of heritage identity and familial bonds. Through these stories Cook captures the complexities of womanhood emphasizing both the shared experiences and the individuality of each subject. Chronicle Books hardcover
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41947London: Teape and Son 1832. Fist and only edition 8vo 24pp. without wrappers as issued uncut. "The Baptist missionaries in the island were charged with having incited the negroes to revolt and were persecuted. Knibb one of their number proceeded to England to lay their cause before the English public and became a powerful factor in bringing about passage of the emancipation act in 1833."Ragatz. Ragatx p.356. [London: Teape and Son, 1832.] unknown
1412passed in Jamaica in 1703 due to the "uncertainties and disputes in the Payment. by reason of the words Manured and Planted. Her Majesty hath been and now is graciously pleased that whatsoever shall arise from the Quit Rents shall be applied towards the Support of the Government and defraying the contingent charges of this Island." giving the rates per acre to be paid 2 sides folio Jamaica c. unknown
200297317Kingston 2002. Paperback. Very Good. 2 vols. xvi 95; iv 750p. tables graphics wrps 4to. Kingston paperback
14752'Jamaica No 81'. Executive Committee Office. 26 January 1856. 3pp. foolscap 8vo. Bifolium. In good condition on lightly aged and worn paper. The letter begins: 'Gentlemen I am directed to inform you that a Bill of Exchange drawn by His Excellency the Governor and the Members of the Executive Committee on the Lords of the Treasury for the sum of £10.822 . 9 . 6 at thirty days' sight will be forwarded to you by the Receiver General by the present Mail together with Bills of the Colonial Bank making with the Bills already forwarded the further sum of £9.500 - and to provide altogether the sum of £20.000 which I am to instruct you to receive and pay to the Bank of England in liquidation of that amount payable there on the 1st April next for Interest and Sinking Fund on the Jamaica Guaranteed Loan.' The letter continues for more than a page in the same vein. From the Hankey & Co. banking archive. Underneath summary of contents "Ansd do 16 Feb. /56 the date of receiving W.W. William Wilson of Hankeys" has initialled 'Jamaica No 81'. Executive Committee Office. 26 January 1856. unknown
a103452Boston Mass. 1982 first edition. Camp Dresser & McKee. 4to wraps. Black plastic spiral binding. Over 100p. bw Photo illus. Near Fine. . paperback
20693Without place or date. Jamaica 1811. . On both sides of a 13 x 20 cm piece of paper cut from an official letter. In fair condition on aged and worn paper. The recto reads: '… Having received the enclosed Papers since I wrote to you on the 27th inst transmitting the Proceedings of a General Court Martial on the Trial of Lieutt Irwine of the 55th Regt. I think it right to transmit them to you as they are documents relating to …'. Reverse reads: 'I have the honour to be Sir Your most obedient humble Servant Edw: Morrison Lt: Govr Commr of the Forces at Jamaica <>'. The details of the court martial of Lieutenant Robert Irvine are to be found in Charles James's 'Collection of the Charges Opinions and Sentences of General Courts Martial' 1820. Without place or date. [ Jamaica, 1811. ] unknown
26760No place or date. Signature and subscription separated from a letter not present 7 x 4cms on sl. larger backing aging but good condition SEE IMAGE. Note: Signature and subscription matches the signature on an ALS sold Googled. Their learned description concludes: "Edward John Eyre the renowned Australian explorer of southern Australia & New South Wales and the first European to explore the coastline of the Great Australian Bight. Drawing upon his experiences overlanding sheep in the 1830's Eyre 1815 - 1901 applied for the job of laying out an overland route to the west. In June 1840 the expedition started out but failed. Sending back all but Baxter & Wylie Eyre set out from Fowlers Bay to cross the Great Australian Bight. After much hardship & losing Baxter Eyre & Wylie ran into and were saved by a French whaler which gave them supplies to continue. This letter was written in the period following Eyre's governor ship of the colony of Jamaica during which time he had brutally suppressed the Morant Bay Rebellion using government troops to kill innocent men women & children. Eyre returned to England August 1866 where those who called him a murderer founded a committee calling for him to be put on trial; he was charged with murder twice but the cases were never pursued." Antipodean Books No place or date. unknown
2023195306Kingston: The Planning Institute of Jamaica 2023. First edition. Paperback. New. Np. maps tables graphics indices wrps. Highlights and analyses are presented concerning national social and economic developments. The study's contents are classified under two major categories: macroeconomic and social issues. Issued as a CD-ROM. The Planning Institute of Jamaica paperback
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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
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1946206442Kingston: Central Bureau of Statistics 1946. Folded three times; short tear at one fold very good. Printed map 16-1/2 x 21 in. printed on one side only. Official government map showing each of the island's fourteen parishes with statistical details: area population density dwellings schools illiteracy post offices main roadsetc. Central Bureau of Statistics unknown
1989524075New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1989. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Edited by Bradford Morrow. Octavo. 287 9 ads pp. With several black and white illustrations. Green remainder mark on bottom edge else fine in price-clipped and very lightly worn near fine dust jacket. Signed by editor Bradford Morrow on the title page and Signed by Jamaica Kincaid Robert Coover John Edgar Wideman Patrick McGrath and William T. Vollmann at their contributions. Also prints contributions by Robert Creeley John Hawkes and Salman Rushdie among others. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1910227821910. Caribbean Photography Large-format Caribbean photography archive documenting everyday life labor and landscape across multiple British Caribbean territories during the early twentieth century. Produced circa 1910s-1920s the photographs depict Jamaica St. Thomas Trinidad and Bermuda at a time when maritime trade imperial administration and expanding leisure travel were reshaping island economies and social environments. The images record agricultural labor coastal fishing village and market activity transportation routes and the built environment of island communities offering visual evidence of how Caribbean societies lived and worked within systems of colonial governance during the decades preceding the major economic disruptions of the Great Depression. Scenes of women carrying fruit children in domestic garden spaces and fishermen working near the shoreline provide direct documentation of gendered labor and community life rarely preserved in formal colonial records.<br /> <br /> Archive of 19 original silver gelatin photographs taken across Jamaica St. Thomas Trinidad and Bermuda circa 1910s-1920s. The photographs depict tropical interior landscapes palm-lined roads coastal harbors village and town infrastructure markets and local economies and scenes of daily labor and recreation among local inhabitants. Several photographs show women working balancing baskets of fruit atop their heads and fishermen working along shorelines while others present panoramic views of bays harbors and anchored ships alongside expanding waterfront construction. Architectural views include roads market environments and hotel grounds illustrating the physical fabric of island towns and the commercial transport infrastructure threaded through them. Each photograph measures approximately 8 x 10 inches and retains a penciled caption on the verso identifying the scene or location. The geographic range - from Jamaica's mountainous interior and coastal towns to maritime scenes in Trinidad Bermuda and St. Thomas - creates a comparative visual record of early twentieth-century Caribbean environments shaped by plantation economies maritime trade routes and the transatlantic shipping networks operating across the region during the period. Light handling wear with occasional surface scuffing visible on several prints and mild curling along some edges. Images remain well contrasted with strong clarity. Overall very good condition. A substantial early photographic record of Caribbean landscapes labor and community life spanning several islands during a formative period in the region's economic and visual history. unknown
197464110London: Secker and Warburg 1974. First Edition. First impression. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xii196pp; illus. Neat ownership stamp to front free endpaper and title page else tight clean and unmarked. In the original dustwrapper price-clipped else Fine. <br /> <br /> The Jamaican anthropologist's final published work a pioneering study of attitudes towards race-mixing in the West Indies Latin America and the United States. Henriques 1916-1976 was a major theorist of class color and sexuality best-known for his massive three-volume survey Prostitution and Society 1962-68. He was Director of the Centre for Multi Racial Studies from 1964 to 1974. Secker and Warburg unknown
1930224461930. Caribbean and Panama travel photograph album. circa early 1930s. This album documents interwar travel through the Panama Canal Zone and Jamaica recording maritime transit canal infrastructure and rural Caribbean life as observed by Western travelers. The photographs provide primary visual evidence of the Panama Canal as a site of industrial activity and international movement alongside scenes of Jamaican village life and landscape establishing a contrast between engineered environments and colonial rural settings. The material is particularly strong in its depiction of canal operations and the presence of local populations within these spaces.<br /> <br /> Album containing 29 silver gelatin photographs mounted on black leaves with individual prints measuring approximately 3.5 x 4.5 to 5 x 7 inches housed in a string-bound album measuring approximately 7 x 9.5 inches. The opening sequence shows passengers aboard a steamship with men and women posed along deck rails and views of ships navigating canal locks and docking areas. Additional images depict cranes drawbridges canal cuts and small boats in the water along with dock workers and uniformed personnel visible among travelers. Architectural and infrastructural views include colonial-style buildings and mechanical equipment associated with canal operation concluding with a monument identified as that of Vasco Núñez de Balboa in Panama City. The Jamaica sequence includes landscape views of hillsides and gardens along with images of Black Jamaican residents posed in village settings. One photograph bears the caption "Kingston Jamaica 10 -- S.S. 'Reliance' West Indies Cruise" showing children and adults gathered along a dirt road lined with wooden and metal-roofed structures. Other images show groups assembled beneath trees and within rural surroundings.<br /> <br /> Produced during a period when the Panama Canal served as a major conduit for global shipping under U.S. administration and Caribbean travel formed part of organized cruise itineraries the album reflects established routes of interwar tourism. The juxtaposition of canal engineering and Jamaican village scenes situates the photographs within broader patterns of travel that linked industrial infrastructure with colonial landscapes. Minor water rippling to pages and photographs; images remain clear; overall very good. A coherent travel album documenting canal operations and Caribbean life in the early twentieth century. unknown
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