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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
1995Q-0395691834Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1995. paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 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.
1991Q-085345745XMonthly Review Press 1991-01-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Monthly Review Press paperback
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
19830105780Farrar 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine first edition in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Farrar hardcover books
1983010536Farrar Straus and Giroux 1983. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Author's First Book.Fine Copy In A Fine Price Clipped Jacket.First Edition.Signed by the Author on the Title-page.Excellent Copy. Farrar Straus and Giroux Hardcover books
1983192295Farrar Straus and Giroux 1983-12-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Signed. Inscribed by Jamaica Kincaid on the half title page. First Edition First Printing of her first book. Dust jacket is wrapped- jacket spine has minor fading of color- jacket price not clipped. Green cloth and orange paper boards. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
198329284New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux. 1983. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A fine copy in fine dust jacket but for a tiny bump/wrinkle at head of spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 82 pp . Farrar, Straus & Giroux hardcover books
1983161676New 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 fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a long Derek Walcott blurb on the rear panel. Farrar Straus and Giroux unknown books
1983287451New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1983. First. hardcover. very good/very good. 82 pages. 8vo. Green cloth backed red boards dust wrapper. First edition. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1983. Showing some slight discoloration inside cover and flyleaf. A very good copy in a very good wrapper.<br/><br/> Inscribed by the author on title page: "For . with best wishes Love Jamaica"<br/><br/> Farrar Straus & Giroux unknown books
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
