HAITI: BOOKS ABOUT THE HAITIAN LANGUAGE -- CREOLE / KREYOL FOR SALE

List as of January 10, 2008

Bob Corbett 1419 Tamm Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63139
(314) 647-6704

The list adds and subtracts items constantly, so please write to reserve books or to check is they are still available. The most current list is the one on my web site.

If you have questions, don't hesitate to contact me

BOOKS READY FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY.

Shipping is $3.00 for the first book and $.50 for each additional book, book rate. There will also be a 75 cent charge for each mailing for delivery confirmation. Insurance or priority shipping are extra, please ask. Delivery outside the U.S. will be arranged. A number of the art cooks are quite heavy and can't be shipped for the $3.00 normal fee. If books are heavy I will have to charge extra shipping.

• Anon    KOMPRANN SA NOU LI: LEKTI KATRIYEM ANE   . Port-au-Prince
  • $7.00
  
  
• Anon    LEKTI GRAME -- 3 EM ANE   . Port-au-Prince.
  • $7.00
  
  
• Anon    KONPRANN SA NOU LI EGZESIS 3   . Port-au-Prince, Editions Henri Deschamps
  • $7.00
  
  
• Anon (1985).    LEKTI KREYOL   . Port-au-Prince, Imprimerie Henri Deschamps. LIV ELEV: 5EM AK 6EM ANE.
  • $8.00
  
  
• Anon (1987).    LANG KREYOL: LIV ELEV 5em ANE   . Port-au-Prince, Ministe Edikasyon Nasyonal.
  • $8.00
  
  
• Anon (1994).    FRAZ, AK MO KI ITIL ANGLE-KREYOL AYISYEN   . Temple Terrace, FL, Educa Vision. 138 pages of useful phrases in English and Creole. Like new.
  • $19.00
  
  
• Anon (2005).    KREYOL WOWOLOY   . Clearwater, South Carolina, Eastern Digital Resources. Paper bound. Poems and other writing, Creole and English on facing pages with large type. Excellent for practicing Creole.
  • $18.00
  
  
• Bayadel, E. a. I. D. (1985).    ANN REFLECHI SOU LANG NOU PALE A   . Brooklyn, NY, Bilingual Program of Community School District 3. 109 pages. Nice condition.
  • $21.00
  
  
• Dalzon, W. (1981).    WI YA LI: LESON KREOL POU ETRANJE   . Port-au-Prince, Haitian-American Institute. Large size 8.5x11 inch book, paper bound by staples3 pages of excellent exercises to work on. Not written in.
  • $24.00
  
  
• DeGraff, Michel, editor (1999).    LANGUAGE CREATION AND LANGUAGE CHANGE: CREOLIZATION, DIACHRONY AND DEVELOPMENT   . Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press. Huge and heavy volume of 573 pages. Like new in original dust jacket. Scholarly study of conditions and processes of developing creole languages.
  • $60.00
  
  
• Faine, J. (1936).    PHILOLOGIE CREOLE ETUDES HISTORIQUES ET ETYMOLOGIQUES SUR LA LANGUE CREOLE D'HAIT   . Port-au-Prince, Imprimerie de l'Etat. One of the earliest studies of Haitian Creole in print. Nice condition. 303 pages and bibliography.
  • $110.00
  
  
• Faine, J. (1939).    LE CREOLE DANS L'UNIVERS: ETUDES COMPARATIVES PARLERS FRANCAIS-CREOLES.   . Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Imprimerie de L'etat. TOME I: Le Mauricion. Over 100 pages.
  • $98.00
  
  
• Freeman, B. a. P. V. (1988).    DIKSYONE OTOGRAF KREYOL AYISYEN   . Port-au-Prince, University of the State of Haiti. Very fine.
  • $9.00
  
  
• Freeman, B. a. P. V. (1989).    DICTIONNAIRE PRELIMINAIRE DES FREQUENCES DE LA LANGUE CREOLE HAITIENNE   . Port-au-Prince, University of the State of Haiti. Like new.
  • $12.00
  
  
• Freeman, B. C. (1987).    TI KOZE KREYOL: A HAITIAN - CREOLE MANUAL   . Port-au-Prince, Edisyon Bon Nouvel. Very fine condition.
  • $17.00
  
  
• Freeman, B. C. (1989).    DICTIONNAIRE INVERSE DE LA LANGUE CREOLE HAITIENNE / DIKSYONE LANVE LANG KREYOL AYISYEN AN   . Port-au-Prince. Like new.
  • $18.00
  
  
• Freeman, B. C. (1990).    SURVIVAL CREOLE   . Port-au-Prince, La Presse Evangelique
  • $7.00
  
  
• Freeman, B. C. (1992).    MEDICAL DICTIONARY: HAITAIN CREOLE ENGLISH / ENGLISH -- HAITIAN CREOLE   . Port-au-Prince, La Presse Evangelique. Like new.
  • $23.00
  • Also have the revised edition of 1997. $23.00
  
  
• Freeman, B. G. (1984).    CHITA PA BAY: ELEMENTARY READING IN HAITIAN CREOLE WITH ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY   . Port-au-Prince, Editions Bon Nouvel.
  • $20.00
  
  
• Goodman, M. F. (1964).    A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CREOLE FRENCH DIALECTS   . The Hague, Mouton and Company. 143 page scholarly study. With bibliography. Paper bound in very nice condition.
  • $45.00
  
  
• Gramer, M. F. (1995).    THE BASIC OXFORD PICTURE DICTIONARY ENLISH / HAITIAN CREOLE   . New York, Oxford University Press. Like new. Very large format book.
  • $28.00
  
  
• Hall, R. A., Jr. (1953). HAITIAN CREOLE GRAMMAR, TEXTS, VOCABULARY    The American Anthropologist    Vol 55(no 2 part 2, memoir no 74): 1-309. Another quite early work. In very fine condition.
  • $48.00
  
  
• Hall, R. A. (1966).    PIDGIN AND CREOLE LANGUAGES   . Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press. Scholarly hardbound book which in addition to liguistic details such a syntax and grammar, studies the historical development and political significance of the languages. Hard bound and very nice condition.
  • $24.00
  
  
• Harding, M. D. M. S. C. V. (1996).    HAITIAN CREOLE (KREYOL) -- ENGLISH POCKET MEDICAL TRANSLATOR   . Boston, International Volunteers Medical Association. Like new.
  • $15.00
  
  
• Jeanty, Edner    SPEAK CREOLE IN NO TIME   . Port-au-Prince, La Presse Evangelique Very nice condition, signed by the author.
  • $16.00
  
  
• Jeanty, E. A. (1989).    DIKSYONE KREYOL -- Creole - English Angle - Kreyol   . Port-au-Prince, La Presse Evangelique. 353 page dictionary. Very good condition.
  • $23.00
  • Shorter version of this book. $17.00
  
  
• Jeanty, E. A. a. O. C. B. (1974).    LET'S LEARN CREOLE   . Port-au-Prince, La Presse Evangelique. Like new.
  • 1974 pre-publication version. $12.00
  
  
• Kantrowitz, Martin et al. (1978).    KOU MAN NOU YE? AN ENGLISH-HAITIAN CREOLE GUIDE FOR MEDICAL PERSONNEL    University of New Mexico Press. 75 pages and in very good condition.
  • $24.00
  
  
• Le Page, R. B. e. (1961).    PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE ON CREOLE LANGUAGE STUDIES   . London, MacMillan & Co Ltd. This is a hard bound book, the entire proceedings of this conference held in 1959 (even though not published until 1961). Papers are several different creole languages, and one, in French on Haitian Creole: Pradel Pompilus: "De Quelques Influences Du Creole Sur Le Francais Officiel d'Haiti. Book in original dust jacket.
  • $27.00
  
  
• Lefebvre, C. (1998).    CREOLE GENESIS AND THE ACQUISITION OF GRAMMAR: THE CASE OF HAITIAN CREOLE   . Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 459 page scholarly study. Hard bound in original dust jacket like new.
  • $65.00
  
  
• McConnell, H. O. (1960).    YOU CAN LEARN CREOLE   . Petit-Goave, Haiti, Imprimerie Du Sauveur
  • Early versions $22.00
  • 7th edition, 1980s $16.00
  
  
• Milfort-Tchoponhoue, Y. (1990).    HAITIAN KREYOL A PRIMER FOR ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLE   . New Jersey, Perth Amboy Printing Brothers. Fine condition.
  • $15.00
  
  
• Mirville, D. E. (1982).    SIWOLIN KREYOL LESSONS FOR ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLE: TOME I   . Port-au-Prince, Enstiti Lengistik Aplike Potoprens. 100 page work book in good condition. Exercises, games, music, all sorts of tactics to learn Creole.
  • $19.00
  
  
• Missionary Church Association of, H.    LITTLE PINE TREE: PROGRAMMED LESSONS AND WORKBOOK FOR CREOLE LEARNERS    Huge spiral bound book which is programmed for learning without a teacher. Very fine learning tool. Book is in very good condition. Huge and thick. Can't tell the number of pages since it numbers by units. Several hundred for sure.
  • $35.00
  
  
• Orjala, P. (1970).    A DIALECT SURVEY OF HAITIAN CREOLE   . Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms. Authorized printed copy of this doctoral dissertion. 221 pages with bibligraphy. Very nice condition.
  • $44.00
  
  
• Savain, R. E. (1993).    HAITIAN-KREOL IN TEN STEPS   . Rochester, VA, Schenkman Books, Inc. Spiral bound book with hard plastic cover. 119 pages. Like new.
  • $18.00
  
  
• Savain, R. E. and et al. (1994).    HARCOURT BRACE PICTURE DICTIONARY   . Orlando, FL, Harcourt Brace and Co. 8.5x11 size book. Colorful pictures. Like new.
  • $25.00
  
  
• Service Medical, Gendarmerie D'Haiti    LESSONS IN HAITIAN CREOLE WITH SOME INFORMATION REGARDING THE REPUBLIC OF HAITI -- 1926    I have handled about 4-5 of these books from the days of the first U.S. occupation of Haiti. Everyone I've seen save this copy have been badly worn, torn, mangled with use. This one is in just excellent condition, discolored some with age, but definitely not a "used" copy. In such condition is must be quite rare.
  • $105.00

• Targete, J. (1979).    ADVANCED GRAMMAR OF HAITIAN CREOLE   . Port-au-Prince, Ateliers Fardin. 8.5 x 11 paper bound. Good condition. 226 pages.
  • $25.00
  
  
• Theodore, C. (1995).    HAITIAN CREOLE: HAITIAN CREOLE - ENGLISH -- ENGLISH - HAITIAN CREOLE   . New York, Hippocrene Books Like new. Pocket size dictionary
  • pocket size-dictionary $15.00
  • Even smaller size pocket dictionary $15.00
  
  
• Tinker, Edward Larocque    GOMBO COMES TO PHILADELPHIA     Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1957. This is mainly a... well, what, a text in gombo. This is the name used in this article for the dialect of people from the Francophone area of the Caribbean. With the Haitian Revolution and other migration, the language came to Philadelphia. The bulk of this book are reprints of very early documents in GOMBO, which is quite close to Haitian Creole. Very scarce text. The booklet is in good condition and text is even better.
  • $92.00

• Valdman, A. (1970).    BASIC COURSE IN HAITIAN CREOLE   . The Hague, the Neatherlands, Mouton and Co. Large spiral bound book 8.5x11 and it comes with a set of 17 cassette tapes. I used the tapes a great deal and found them most useful. All like new.
  • $115.00
  
  
• Valdman, A. (1988).    ANN PALE KREYOL: AN INTRODUCTORY COURSE IN HAITIAN CREOLE   . Bloomington, IN, Creole Institute. Excellent text for studying Creole, the one I used myself in an earlier version. 8.5x11 format 264 pages and like new.
  • $35.00
  
  
• Valdman, A. and et al. (1981).    HAITIAN CREOLE -- ENGLISH - FRENCH DICTIONARY   . Bloomington, In., Indiana University , Creole Institute. 2 huge volumes. Spiral bound. Vol 1 is 579 pages. Vol 2 is 142 pages. Good condition.
  • For both volumes: $45.00
  
  
• Valdman, Albert et al. (1996).    A LEARNER'S DICTIONARY OF HATIAN CREOLE   . Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Creole Institute. Hard bound, 529 page book in large 8x11 inch format. The only rival to the Freeman dictionary in size and score. Like new.
  • $55.00
  
  
• Vedrine, Emmanuel W. (1998).    DICTIONARY OF HAITIAN CREOLE BIBLIOGRAPHY   Unpublished manuscript. Spiral bound. 529 pages in large 8.5x11 size. Detailed annotated bibliography of works known to have been printed in Haitian Creole. Like new.
  • $65.00
  
  
• Vilsaint, Fequiere (1994).    JE M LOUVRI: HAITIAN-CREOLE / ENGLISH LITERACY: BOOK ONE   . Temple Terrace, FL, Educa Vision. Like new. Large size book for younger children, which would also make it an excellent beginning place for beginners in the language.
  • $25.00
  
  
• Vilsaint, F. a. M. H. (1995).    PICTORIAL ENGLISH / HAITIAN CREOLE DICTIONARY   . Temple Terrace, FL, Educa Vision. Like new.
  • $25.00
  
  
• Vilsaint, F. a. M. H. (1996).    ENGLISH HAITIAN - CREOLE SCIENCE DICTIONARY   . Temple Terrace, FL, Educa Vision, Inc. Large format 8.5x11 book, like new.
  • $18.00
  
  
• Vilsen, F. a. M. E. (1994).    DIKSYONE KREYOL VILSEN   . Temple Terrace, FL, Educa Vision. 259 page Kreyol dictionary -- not into some other language, but just a dictionary of Kreyol itself. Large 8.5x11 book, very good condition.
  • $30.00
  
  

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