Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xii,409pp. Fine, apparently unread copy. In fine, original dustwrapper. More

New York: Minton, Balch & Company, [1934]. First Edition. Sensationalist history of Haiti and voodoo, published during the American occupation in part as a sequel to the author's Black Baghdad (1933), advertised on the rear panel of the present dust jacket as "The Arabian Nights Adventures of a Marine Captain..... More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. First Edition. First impression. Octavo; cloth hardcover, dustjacket; 208pp. Fine, unmarked copy in a barely edge-rubbed dustwrapper. More

Boston: Richardson, Lord & Holbrook, 1829. First Edition. 12mo (18cm). Modern plain buckram with gilt spine label; xii,[13]-162pp. Early perforated stamp to title page (Rhode Island Historical Society); scattered foxing and toning to text, still a complete, fresh copy, Good and sound. An anonymous early work by Blake, identified as..... More

La Habana [Havana]: Instituto Cubano Del Libro, 1971. Quarto (25cm). Publisher's grey cloth, with original white dust jacket; plain endpapers; 276,[6]pp. Straight, rubbed, front hinge partly cracked, corners bumped: Very Good. Jacket toned, rubbed, with short tears at edges, dampstain to front lower corner: Good. Cuban protest against American action..... More

[Habana: Casa de las Américas, 1981]. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); publisher's card wrappers in pictorial dust jacket; 297pp. Light shelf wear to jacket and wrapper extremities, tiny soil spot at bottom textblock edge not bleeding into textblock, else Very Good or better. The Guatemalan author's first novel. More

Washington Square: New York University Press, 1960. First American Edition. An examination of post-war West Indian politics and government, economic and social commentary, written by an Associat Professor of Government at NYU. Octavo; bluish-gray cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 258pp. Top edge foxed, else..... More

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Schenkman Publishing Company, Inc., 1967. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 232pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations throughout. This copy is from the library of Puerto Rican editor, translator, and literary critic Roberto Marquez, with..... More

Guelph: The Library [of] University of Guelph, 1970. First Edition. Quarto (27.75cm.); original orange printed spiral-bound wrappers; [6],41 typescript leaves. Top edge of upper wrapper a bit toned, else Near Fine. Bibliography Series no. 1. More

New York: New Directions, 2007. First Edition. Octavo. Printed, glossy card wrappers (only format issued); 265pp. Just touched at base of spine and wrapper edges; still a bright, Fine copy, about as-new. From the library of noted poet and translator Nathaniel Tarn, with his ownership signature to title page. A...... More

[Mexico: Editorial Katún, 1985]. First Edition. Small octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers printed in red; 135pp.; map in text. Light wear and dust-soil, else Very Good or better. Translated in English as "Blood of the Innocent: Victims of the Contras' War in Nicaragua." More

New York: Random House, 1968. First Edition. A musical comedy concerning two neighboring bordellos in an idealized Haitian town. Lyrics were co-written by Capote and Harold Arlen. Sharp copy. First Printing. Octavo; beige paper over black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and publisher's logo blindstamped to front..... More

Habana: Propaganda Literaria, 1872. First Edition. Forms part of the author's series of short biographies of literary, artistic, and political giants, this divided into two parts, the first on the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini (pp. [5]-39) and Alexander Herzen (spelled Hertzen in this work) (pp. [41]-84), the Russian author and..... More