Haiti: Books For Sale
List as of March 12, 2008
Bob Corbett
1419 Tamm Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63139
(314) 647-6704
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The list (List: Main-stacks -- B) has 100. They are numbered. I will removed books as sold, but you can just tell me the NUMBER of the book
you want. This is list B, so please number by that, eg B7 or B33 etc.
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.
- # B1 Brenton, Francis LONG SAIL TO HAITI London: Heinemann, 1965.
Transatlantic yacht cruising from Tenerife ending in disaster and Papa Doc's Haitian jail.
Hard bound book in good condition, 179 pages.
- # B2 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ENGINEER IN CHIEF TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE OF PUBLIC WORKS Port-au-Prince: Republique D'Haiti, 1924. Large format paper bound book of 96 pages in English. Filled with
data and charts and graphs. Worn copy with dark marking wehre seemingly tape had
once been covering the binding, which has a few tears, but is mainly solid. Useful
data in understanding the U.S. Occupation.
- # B3 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ENGINEER IN CHIEF TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE OF PUBLIC WORKS Port-au-Prince: Republique D'Haiti, 1927. Paper bound book of 204 pages in English. Filled with
data and charts and graphs. Many b/w photos of good quality. Two very large fold out maps, one in the back cover of the whole country is huge, and another is in color.
Worn cover with a couple small tears, but overall in very good condition.
- # B4 Aristide, Jean-Bertrand DIGNITY Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1996.
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x. Chronology. Introduction by Christope Wargny. Afterword by Carrol F. Coates. Appendices. Bibliography. 210pp. This is the story of Aristide's
three years in exile.
- Hard bound in dust jacket, like new. $15.00
- Paper bound copy like new. $11.00
- # B9 Bonnette, Margaret. YIPPEE MY SOUL: THE STORY OF A MISSIONARY NURSE IN
THE MOUNTAINS OF HAITI.
1992 paperback non-fiction story of a nurse's missionary and medical work in Haiti. Very fine condition. Some b/w photos as well.
- # B10 Bourdet, Yves and Mats Lundahl PATTERNS OF PROSPECTS OF HAITIAN PRIMARY EXPORTS Allegheny College and Univ. of Akron, Pennsylvania, 1991. Paperback, like-new. B/W Charts (illustrator). Octavo. Issue title: "Patterns and Prospects of Haitian Primary Exports." Number 9, 1991.
- # B5 Cochran, Doris M. A NEW FROG, ELEUTHERODACTYLUS WETMOREI, FROM THE REPUBLIC OF HAITI Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 1932. Vol. 45, pages 191-194. Very nice condition.
- # B6 Cochran, Doris M. A NEW SPECIES OF FROG FROM HAITI Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 1938.
Vol. 51, pages 93-94. Very nice condition.
- # B7 Cochran, Doris M. NOTES ON THE HERPETOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS MADE BY DR. W.L. ABBOTT ON THE ISLAND OF HAITI
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1924. 15 page independtly published
pamphlet. Very good condition.
- # B8 Cochran, Doris M. THE HERPETOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS MADE IN HAITI AND ITS ADJOINING ISLANDS Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 1928. Vol. 41, pages 53-60. Fine condition.
- # B11 Dunn, Emmett Reid A NEW LIZARD FROM HAITI Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club, 1920.
Vol. VII, pages 33-34. Very nice condition.
- # B12 Guy, Rosa MY LOVE OR THE PEASANT GIRL, A FABLE NY Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985. Two people of different nationalities, backgrounds and environment meet, fall in love and share love's consequences through the war, poverty, separation and prolonged illness, through differences in customs, laws, beliefs and through conflicts within a growing family. An enduring friendship between two women has led to the events now being told. -- from the preface. Novel. The setting is an unnamed Caribbean island which could well be Haiti.
Hard bound in original dust jacket, in fine condition.
- # B13 Brown, Hilton ASYLUM ISLAND London: Methuen and Co., 1950.
This is a novel set in a fictional Caribbean nation which appears to be modeled after
Haiti. The jacket cover says: "To describe Asylum Island as "gold as honey, scented as a garden of flowers, and quiet as sleep" is to waste words on an impossible task. Suffice it to say that the name of this Caribbean paradise has two meanings: refuge, and madhouse. It was both for ColinStrathdee, the Scotsman of dubious past who came there to tutor Telemaque, son of the island's current ruler." Hard bound in original dust jacket in very good condition.
- # B14 Buchanan, Edna THE CORPSE HAD A FAMILIAR FACE NY: Random House, 1987. Journal like report of a Miami
reporter. Contains lots of stories of her investigations including the Haitian who was knitted to death in a Hialeah factory. Hard bound in dust jacket. Some wear but over all very good condition.
- # B15 Bunch, Roland TWO EARS OF CORN: A GUIDE TO PEOPLE-CENTERED AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT Oklahoma City, OK: World Neighbors, 1982. Soft bound, 247 pages. The author presents a people-centered account of how communities can improve agricultural production by encouraging appropriate technology and small-scale experimentation by village farmers. This book shows how to effectively plan, organize and administer a variety of strategies that result in two ears of corn where only one grew before. Contents: 1. General orientation. 2. Getting started. 3. Choosing and using technology. 4. Administration. 5. Expansion and consolidation. Has been translated into 8 languages and is used by people in government and non-government organizations and universities around the world.
- # B16 Burns, Sheelagh THE GINKGO TREE NY: Rinehart and Co., Inc., 1957. Caribbean ilsand much like Haiti. Woman in 50s falls for Haitian pilot, and drinks herself into trouble. Then, in the end gets over him. Book is hard bound and in original dust jacket, very fine condition.
- # B18 CALLALOO: A JOURNAL Vol 15 # 3, Summer 1992. Lovely color photo of
a Rigaud Benoit painting. 311 pages. Other full color prints inside on slick paper.
This issue contains articles by many well-known Haitian scholars are a very wide range of topics. An excellent reference tool.
- # B19 Civan, Michele Fequiere Vilsaint and Gepsie Morisset-Metellus HAITIANS: HISTORY AND CULTURE Temple Terrace, FL: Educa Vision, 1994.
8.5 x 11 book in soft cover. 34 page fact sheet. Like new.
- # B20 Compa, Lance LABOR RIGHTS IN HAITI Washington, DC: International Labor Rights Educational and Research Fund, 1989. Paper bound, like new. 47 pages + 4 page appendix.
- # B22 Craige, John Houston. BLACK BAGDAD. Second of the famous hard bound books which this military officer wrote during the American occupation in the 1930s. Craige's critique of Haitian people and culture set off a storm of protest amoung liberals in the U.S.
- Nice copy in original dust jacket $55.00
- Nice copy without dust jacket $50.00.
- # B23 Craige, John Houston. CANNIBAL COUSINS. Famous hard bound book which
this military officer wrote during the American occupation in the 1930s. Craige's critique
of Haitian people and culture set off a storm of protest amoung liberals in the U.S. This is
a particularly nice copy of this scarce book in full dust jacket.
- Nice copy in original dust jacket $55.00
- # B24 Deagan, Kathleen editor PUERTO REAL: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF A SIXTEENTH-CENTURY SPANISH TOWN IN HISPANIOLA
Gainsville, Fl: University Press of Florida, 1995. Hard bound volume in original dust jacket. Like new. Very heavy. 533 pages. photos, charts and graphs throughout.
Book contains:
- William H. Hodges. HOW WE FOUND PUERTO REAL
- Kathleen Deagan. HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY AT PUERTO REAL
- William H. Hodges, Kathleen Deagan, and Elizabeth I. Reitz. THE NATURAL AND CULTURAL SETTINGS OF PUERTO REAL
- William H. Hodges and Eugene Lyon. A GENERAL HISTORY OF PUERTO REAL Maurice Williams. SPATIAL PATTERNING AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION AT PUERTO REAL.
- Raymond F.Willis. EMPIRE AND ARCHITECTURE AT PUERTO REAL: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF PUBLIS SPACE.
- Rochelle A. Marrinan. ARCHAEOLOGY IN PUERTO REAL'S PUBLIC SECTOR: BUILDING B.
- Bonnie G. McEwan. SPANISH PRECEDENTS AND DOMESTIC LIFE AT PUERTO REAL: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF TWO SPANISH HOMESITES.
- Kathleen Deagan and Elizabeth J. Reitz. MERCHANTS AND CATTLEMEN: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF A COMMERCIAL STRUCTURE AT PUERTO REAL.
- Elizabeth J. Reitz and Bonnie G. McEwan. ANIMALS, ENVIRONMENT, AND THE SPANISH DIET AT PUERTO REAL.
- Greg C. Smith. INDIANS AND AFRICANS AT PUERTO REAL: THE CERAMIC EVIDENCE.
- Jennifer M. Hamilton and William H. Hodges. THE AFTERMATH OF PUERTO REAL: ARCHAEOLOGY AT BAYAHA.
- Kathleen Deagan. AFTER COLUMBUS: THE SIXTEENTH-CENTURY SPANISH-CARIBBEAN FRONTIER
- # B25 Degand, Yolande ALWAYS COMES THE MORNING NY: Vantage Press, 1990. An autobiographical novel of a beautiful young Haitian who discovers grave difficulties in her life related to her physical beauty. This novel also deals with Syrian Haitians and their business accumen and sense in Haiti. Not a terribly gripping or interesting work, except for the insight into Syrian Haitians' entrepreneurial spirit, and some things about the Duvalier period. Novel takes place in Haiti and New York between the 1930s and 1980s. Hard bound book in original dust jacket in like-new condition.
- # B26 DeTellis, Jeanne A STUBBORN HOPE Orlando, FL: New Missions, 1996. Paper bound like new.
321 pages. The author is an American woman who went to Haiti as a missionary and
founded an organization which feeds and educates Haitian children.
- # B27 Drescher, Seymour CAPITALISM AND ANTISLAVERY: BRITISH MOBILIZATION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
NY: Oxford University Press, 1987. 5.75x.8.5. Shows that the most effective agents in bringing an end to slavery in the British Empire were economic interests that were not dependent on slave labor or the slave trade. xv+300 pages, notes, bibliography, index.
Hard bound in original dust jacket. Book like new.
- # B28 Lazell, James D. A NEW SPECIES OF SPHAERODACTYLUS FROM NORTHEN HAITI Breviora: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1961. Vol. Number 139, pages 1-5. Very good condition.
- # B29 Dupuy, Alex HAITI IN THE NEW WORLD ORDER: LIMITS OF THE DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION
Paperback (like new). Brilliant 1997 analysis of Haiti's potential
place in the new global economy and political world.
- # B30 Duvivier, Ulrick BIBLIOGRAPHIE GENERALE ET METHODIQUE D'HAITI Port-au-Prince: Imprimerie de l'etat, 1941.
2 volumes, hard bound and in very fine condition. Text is in French. Vol 1 is 318 pages. vol. 2 is 410 pages. About 10 entries per page, so this is a massive work. Very scarce to rare. Only set I've ever seen for sale.
- # B31 Estrada, Frank A. editor QUE PASA IN HAITI Hollywood, FL De Witt Industries, 1972. "Official Visitors Guide to Haiti." Material on: tourism, travel, Simone, Duvalier, hotels, Citadel
carnival, art, prints. A tourist magazine, with great b/w photos, list of PRICES of the hotels which is really fun, many different sorts of things. Very nice condition.
Pages are not numbered, but must be at least 40 or so pages.
- # B33 Gibbons, Elizabeth D. SANCTIONS IN HAITI: HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY UNDER ASSAULT
Click on title for a long review of this very responsible and fascinating book.
- Hard bound, ex-library in fine condition. $37.00
- Paper bound edition in fine condition. $33.00
- # B34 Goldich, Samuel S. and Harlan R. Bergquist ALUMINOUS LATERITIC SOIL OF THE REPUBLIC OF HAITI, W.I
Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1948. 101 pages with index and a very large fold-out map of area studied. In excellent condition.
- # B35 Fagg, John Edwin CUBA, HAITI AND THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Edglewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1965.
181 pages with index. Comparative study of the three nations. Hard bound in dust jacket, fine condition.
- # B36 Fear, Leona K. NEW VENTURES: FREE METHODIST MISSIONS 1960-1979 Winona Lake, Ind.: Light and Life Press. 1979. 160 pages, b&w photos, list of missionaries. Missionaries, Free Methodist, Africa, Haiti, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, India, Taiwan, etc.
# B37
- Fick, Carolyn THE MAKING OF HAITI: THE SAINT DOMINGUE REVOLUTION FROM BELOW
On my onw view this is one of the strongest histories of the Haitian Revolution ever published
in English. A must read for anyone interested in the period. 368 pages. Paper bound
in very nice condition.
- # B38 Fiske, Amos Kidder THE WEST INDIES London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1899.
Hard bound book of 414 pages. 25 special section devoted to Haiti, and quite a bit
on the earlier period of Columbus's time in the West Indies and other sections on
Hispaniola and Dominican Repubic. Book in good condition. Fold out map and other maps and photos.
- #43 B HAITI: PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEW Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1987.
Large format paper bound (8.5x11). 254 pages. Filled with graphs and tables and
text data on public works.
- # B44 HAITI: WINTER/SPRING 1961 TWA fold out brochure. Haiti "Unique among the lands of the Caribbean"
- # B45 Michener, James A. CARIBBEAN NY: Random House, 1989. Hard bound in original dust jacket. Fine condition. typical Michner tour-de-force. 891 pages, covers many periods of development and gives a fair amount of attention to Saint Domingue / Haiti / Hispaniola.
May require extra postage.
- # B46 Halliburton, Richard BOOK OF MARVELS: THE OCCIDENT Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1934.
Hardcover, 6" x 9" (lacks jacket) This seventy-year-old book presents a travelogue of dozens of 'marvels' (spectacular sights) from around the world - with many maps and illustrations. Visit Haiti, Rhodes, Alexandria, Knossos, the Sphinx, Timbuctoo, Victoria Falls, Petra, Babylon, Bagdad, Isfahan, the Taj Mahal, Mount Everest, Lhasa, Angkor, the Great Wall of China, Mount Fuji. p. 119 - 127 is on Christophe's Citadel. Two photographs, one a two full page spread. Very nice photo. 313 pages. Book shows
wear on cover, but text is all just fine.
- # B47 Harris, Robert P. A GUIDE BOOK OF MODERN LATIN AMERICAN COINS Whitman Publishing Company, Racine, 1966, First Edition 7.75 tall, Hard cover, beige boards in fake leather, gilt lettering on spine and cover. 125 pages, 2 pages on Haiti.
- # B48 Halliburton, Richard SEVEN LEAGUE BOOTS Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc, 1942.
In this volume, Halliburton is all over the place: He rides an elephant acros the Alps, interviews on of the assasins of the Czar, goes to Haiti and Fort Jefferson, interviews Haile Selassie just after the Italian invasion, and goes to Mecca on the haj. Pages 71-78 deal with a visit to the Citadel.
- # B49 HAVANA
Monroe Travel Service. Fold-out travel brochure from 1949-50. The trip
includes Dominican Republic and Haiti among others and gives trip details.
- # B50 Hawkins, B. Denise HAITIAN EDUCATORS WORK FOR EDUCATION REFORM IN TIME OF CRISIS This is a whole edition of the journal: Black Studies in Higher Education. The Hawkins article is an anaysis of the work of Haitian educators. In the same volume is: Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick
HAITIAN SCHOLAR VOICES QUALMS OVER U.S. OCCUPATION OF HOMELAND. Issue of Oct. 6, 1994.
Whole issue offered in very good condition.
- # B51 Hill, Errol, editor A TIME AND A SEASON: EIGHT CARIBBEAN PLAYS Printed in Trindad/Tobago, 1976.
One of the plays is The Black Jacobins, adapted from CLR James's famous book by that name.
The other 7 plays are from other areas of the Caribbean and by Roger Mais, Francisco Arrivi, Ian McDonald, Enrique Buenaventura, Roderick Walcott, and Hector Quintero. Book is in fine condition and 450 pages long.
- # B52 Phillips, Henry Albert WHITE ELEPHANTS IN THE CARIBBEAN NY: Robert M. McBride and Co., 1936. Hard bound in very good condition. 301 pages. Pages 64-87 are on Haiti. Earlier sections on colonial Spanish days.
- # B53 James, C.L.R. THE BLACK JACOBINS. One of the most famous analyses
of The Haitian Revolution every written. James was a strong Marxist scholar. 1963
paper bound edition. Very good condition
- # B54 Jesse, F. Tennyson MOONRAKER: OR THE FEMALE PIRATE AND HER FRIENDS London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1927.
Very old novel. Hard bound and quite scarce. As strange as it is scarce!!!
One pale misty November day in 1801 young Jacky Jacka hurls an inkpot at his schoolmaster,walks to Plymouth and signs on with the brig PISKIE bound for the West Indies,the Spanish main. The greatest adventure of his life is being captured by pirates from the ship Moonraker, being transported to
San Domingo and falling under the spell of the famouse and great rebel Toussaint L'Overture,a facinating adventure. Book is hard bound, the original 1921 publication
and in very good condition.
- # B55 Joseph, Richard HAITI
Garden City, NJ: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1959. Part of the Around the World Program
of the American Geographical Society. This was part of a series for young people. It is a 63 page book about Haiti with many many small b/w photos. Then there is a series of
colored stamps of those photos, and the reader would paste the stamps onto the photos.
I'd had a few dozen of these over the years, but almost never does one find one like this, in like-new condition (1959 book!) and the stamps are all in a block in the middle of the book awaiting being paste onto the proper photo in the book. Quite scarce to find one like this.
- # B56 Kaeler, Charles PORTRAIT COINS OF HAITI The Numismatic Scrapbook Magazine. XVIII, No. 10,
1952. The article on Haiti on pages 849-851.
- # B58 Lanks, Herbert HIGHWAY ACROSS THE WEST INDIES NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. 1948.
Hard bound, worn but good condition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A chronicle of the author's 12,000 mile land and sea trip across the islands of the West Indies. 65 b&w photos. 14 page section on Haiti with 6 large and nice b/w photos. Chapter entitled: A Revolutionary Experience.
- # B59 Pierre-Jerome, Lunine A NEW BEGINNING: THE WORLD OF POETRY
Randolph, MA: Oresjozef Publications, 1997. Poems and autobiographies of 7th grade Haitian bilingual students in the Boston area. 191 pages. The whole book is in both Haitian Creole and English. Book is in fine condition.
- # B60 Lundahl, Mats THE HAITIAN ECONOMY: MAN, LAND AND MARKETS NY: St. Martin's Press, 1983. Hard bound in find condition without dust jacket, but the dust jacket has been cut up and pasted into the inside front cover, and facing (blank) page. Careful and scholarly study of the overall of the Haitian economy.
- # B61 McClellan, James E., III COLONIALISM AND SCIENCE: SAINT DOMONGUE IN THE OLD REGIME Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. Textual maps & illustrations 24x16cm, xviii,393 pp Contents: 18th-Century Saint Domingue: The Old Regime in the Tropics: Material Factors; Historical Development; Population & Sociology; Industry & Economy; The Urban Context; Science in a New World Setting: Missionary Naturalists; Expeditions to Saint Domingue; Medicine & Medical Administration; Economic Botany & Animal Economy; Meteorology & Popular Science; The Cercle des Philadelphes (1784-1792): Origins: Science or Freemasonry?; Milestones on the Road to Recognition; On to Letters Patent; Profile of an Institution; The Fall of the Societe Royale of Cap Francois; Conclusions: Science & Colonial Development. Some interesting sections on Masons and Freemasonry. Book is hard bound
and like new. HEAVY book in more ways that lbs., but that too.
- # B62 McCrocklin, James H. GARDE D'HAITI: TWENTY YEARS OF ORGANIZATION AND TRAINING BY THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS Annapolis, MD: The U.S. Naval Institute, 1956.
262p., includes index, biblio, appendix, map endpapers, b/w photos. Hard bound
in originial dust jacket in very good condition
- # B63 Rainwater, MarVenea SLOW OF HEART Mansfield, Texas: Latitudes Press, 1988.
Novel. "Charles, her narrator, visits Haiti to retrieve his mother's personal papers after her death. Charles is "slow of heart" because of his initial confusion, but his guide, Isone, helps to clarify his view. the character of Isone humanizes the Haitian people in a way that the Macourtes and dictators cannot..." Paper bound and like new.
- # B64 Rood, Carlton Alexander A DOMINICAN CHRONICLE Santo Domingo: Editora Corripio, 1986. Alternate title: History of Hispaniola / Dominican Republic. This alternate
title is quite descriptive of the book. Some material on DR's relationship with Haiti and mentions the 1937 massacre. Paper bound in very good condition, 210 pages, some
b/w photos.
- # B65 Miller, Gerrit S., Jr. A SECOND COLLECTION OF MAMMALS FROM CAVES NEAR ST. MICHEL, HAITI
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1929. 30 pages of text and 10 pages of photos, all on slick paper, high quality photos in b/w of remains and fossiles.
- # B67 Moore, Brian NO OTHER LIFE NY: Doubleday, 1993. This is a novel with a familiar character.
A Canadian missionary on the poor Caribbean island of Ganae rescues a black child that he calls Jeannot from abject poverty and sets him on the road to a dramatic and dangerous future. Jeannot becomes a revolutionary Catholic priest, and later, the first democratically elected leader in a land of dictators and despair. Hard bound in
dust jacket, like-new.
- # B68 Munn, Nettie Perkins DEAR FOLKS: LETTERS FROM NAHUM PREKINS, MISSIONARY TO THE CARIBBEAN Winona Lake, Ind.:
Light and Life Press, 1982.
- # B69 Myrthil, Raymond THE ROLE OF AGRICULTURE IN THE ECONOMY OF HAITI: PERSPECTIVES FOR A BETTER DEVELOPMENT
Flushing, NY: The Haitian Book Center, 1979. 94 pages. Paper bound in fine condition.
- # B70 Nelson, G. Dudley M. D AS THE COCK CROWS: REFLECTIONS OF A MEDICAL MISSIONARY TO HAITI Franklin, Tennessee:
Providence House Publishers, 1997. Nelson spent many years working in the Les Cayes
area. Paper bound, 148 pages and like new.
- # B71 Oakley, Amy BEHOLD THE WEST INDIES NY: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1941. Hard bound
in dust jacket. Some rubbing and tears on dust jacket at bottom of spine.
Overall very good condition. 540. Frontis., maps to endpapers, and numerous illustrations to text, some full page. 8vo, mustard cloth. Comitas, Caribbeana 1900-1965, 3.224. Amy and Thornton Oakley record their impressions of Nassau, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Leeward and Windward Islands, Guadalupe, Martinique, Barbados, Trinidad, Tobago, the Dutch West Indies, Venezuela, Columbia, and Panama. About a 50 page chapter on Haiti.
- # B72 Schmidt, Hans MAVERICK MARINE: GENERAL SMEDLEY BUTLER AND THE CONTRADICTIONS OF AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1978. 292 pages with index. Hard bound book in original dustjacket, very fine, and ex-library (little used in the library!). Author Schmidt is the also the author of the most famous book on the U.S. Occupation of Haiti.
- # B73 Parker, John A PLEA FOR HISPANIOLA Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Library, 1961.
Notes: Not really the letter. This about the acquisition of the letter, which was the two millionith acquisition of the library. However, it telling the story the author does
discuss the letter itself. 8 pages.
- # B74 Perusse, Roland I. HAITIAN DEMOCRACY RESTORED 1991 - 1995 Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., 1995.
Various essays on topics from Aristide's first election, overthrow, restoration and other.
Paper bound in fine condition.
- # B75 Pilsbry, Henry A. MIOCENE AND PLEISTOCENE CIRRIPEDIA FROM HAITI
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. 1924. From the Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum. Very good condition. 2 pages.
- # B76 Pratt, Frantz editor and compiler HAITI: GUIDE TO THE PERIODICAL LITERATURE IN ENGLISH, 1800 - 1990
NY: Greenwood Press, 1991. Hard bound like new. 310 pages. Most extensive
bibliography of periodic literature on Haiti ever assembled.
- # B77 Rand, Stanley ANOLIS KOOPMANI, NEW SPECIES, FROM THE SOUTHWEST PENINSULA OF HAITI: NOTES ON HISPANIOLAN HERPETOLOGY. Also in same pamphlet container: Doris M. Cochran. A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF LIZARD, HISPANIOLUS PRATENSIS, FROM THE HAITIAN REPUBLIC. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, D.C. March 16, 1928. Vol. 41, pp. 49-52. Ernest E. Williams. NOTES ON HISPANIOLAN HERPETOLOGY. 1. ANOLIS CHRISTOPHEI, NEW SPECIES, FROM THE CITADEL OF KING CHRISTOPHE, HAITI. In: Breviora: Museum of Comparative Zoology. Cambridge, Mass. Jan. 20,1960. No. 117.
- # B78 Schwartz, Albert TWO NEW SPECIES OF HISPANIOLAN ELEUTHERODACTYLUS (LEPTODACTYLIDAE)
Herpetologica, 1976, Vol. 32, pages 163-171. Very good condition.
- # B79 Rodman, Seldon. HAITI: THE BLACK REPUBLIC.
One of the two best travel guide/analyses of Haiti ever written (Also with Hugh Cave's
HAITI: HIGHROAD TO ADVENTURE. 1950s. Still a fascinating read. Hardbound in good
condition.
- Hard bound in original dust jacket, very nice. $27.00
- Hard bound in original dust jacket, some tears on dust jacket $24.00
- Hard bound in good condition, no dust jacket. $20.00
- Find condition paper bound $17.00
- # B80 Rodman, Seldon and Carole Cleaver SPIRITS OF THE NIGHT.
Excellent study of Haitian Voodoo religion.
- Good condition paperbound. $19.00.
- # B66 Roscoe, Theodore Z IS FOR ZOMBIE Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc.,
1989. This is a paper back reprint of a famous "zombi" story writer from the 1930s
pulp magazines. Very fine condition.
- # B81 Rotberg, Robert I. HAITI: THE POLITICS OF SQUALOR Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1971.
436 pages. Hard bound book, original dust jacket, like new. Astute analysis.
- # B82 Rouse, Irving PREHISTORY IN HAITI: A STUDY IN METHOD NY: Tplinger Publishing Co., 1964. Reprint of a
1939 original. Soft cover as was the 1939 edition. Note that this is a very techincal study, more a study in method than a study of the natives.
- # B83a Sanders, Scott R. WONDERS HIDDEN: AUDUBON'S EARLY YEARS Capra Press,, (Santa Barbara, CA)., 1984. WONDERS HIDDEN: Audubon's Early Years by Scott R. Sanders [Two Volumes in One]. 12mo, pictorial wrappers, pp. 43, [2]; 79, [2]. The Sanders volume is a fictional biography of artist John James Audobon's boyhood , from his illegitimate birth in Haiti, through the reign of terror in France, to his exile at age 18 in America (Haiti). In the same volume: Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine by Ursula K. LeGuin.
Paper bound in fine condition.
- # B84 Schutt-Aine, Patricia HAITI: A BASIC REFERENCE BOOK Miami: Librairie Au Service de la Culture, 1994.
Soft cover. Sections on geography, history, places and people, literature and arts,
langauge (including small Creole dictionary), economics, government, a bibliography of works on Hatiti, French langauge appendix with the original declaration of independence,
Dessalines' Constitution and the Haitian Constitution of 1987. Index. 388 page.
Book is like new.
- # B85 Schweitzer, Albert and William Larimer Mellon, Jr. BROTHERS IN SPIRIT: THE CORRESPONDENCE OF ALBERT SCHWEITZER AND WILLIAM LARIMER MELLON, JR Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1996.
Translated by Jeannette Q. Byers, with a forward by Gwen Grant Mellon and Rhena Schweitzer Miller. Hard bound volume in original dust jacket, like new.
- # B86 Venzon, Anne Cipriano editor GENERAL SMEDLEY DARLINGTON BUTLER: THE LETTERS OF A LEATHERNECK, 1898 - 1931
NY: Praeger, 1992. Hard bound book, 355 pages. Many letters concerning his years
in Haiti during the occupation. Very important primary source material.
- # B87 SHOPPING AND SERVICES 1975 Port-au-Prince, 1975. Very exciting 66 page booklet
on shopping and services in Port-au-Prince. The inside page before the back cover has a wonderful map of downtown P-a-P with street names. Every imaginable area of services and shopping are offered in lists, addresses, and ads. Medical care, movies, clothing, the various outdoor markets, just every imaginable category. Sort of like a little
yellow pages. Clever ads. very good condition.
- # B88 Sorel, Germaine J. PAQUITO OF HAITI: A RAY OF SUNSHINE NY: Vantage Press, 1994. Hard bound novel in original dust jacket, very fine condition. A novel of hope and pain set in the Haitian Revolution, featuring a character who brings home to his fellow struggling slaves.
- # B89 Spector, Robert M. W. CAMERON FORBES AND THE HOOVER COMMISSIONS TO HAITI (1930) NY: University Press of America, 1985. Paper bound. Like new. An analysis of the Forbes and Hoover Commission reports on their work in Haiti. Solid scholarly piece, a serious contribution to understanding the U.S. Occupation of 1915-1934.
- # B90 Stotzky, Irwin P. SILENCING THE GUNS IN HAITI: THE PROMISE OF DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1997. Hard bound book in original dust jacket, like new. An analysis
of Haiti after the coup against Aristide. Some b/w photos.
- # B91 Subbarao, Aragam THE RIDDLE OF AIDS NY: Carlton Press, Inc. 1991.
Hard bound novel in original dust jacket. Fine condition. A novel in which KGB creates AIDS virus and uses Haitians as guinea pigs.
- # B92 Taft, Edna. A PURITAN IN VOODOO LAND.
Insightful woman visited Haiti during the American occupation and
made a serious effort to get out of her limited class and color background to experience
a wider range of Haiti.
This 1938 hardbound copy is good nice dust jacket, some tears.
- # B93 Wetmore, Alexander REMAINS OF BIRDS FROM CAVES IN THE REPUBLIC OF HAITI Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1922. 4 page independtly published occasional paper from the Smithsonian.
Very good condition.
- # B94 Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. SILENCING
THE PAST. Marvelous philosophy of history using Haitian examples as key tools of analysis. Hard bound book in original dust jacket, like new.
One of my favorite books in the library.
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What some others say about this book: Silencing the Past is a thought-provoking analysis of historical narrative. Taking examples ranging from the Haitian Revolution to Columbus Day, Michel-Rolph Trouillot demonstrates how power operates, often invisibly, at all stages in the making of history to silence certain voices. "Makes the postmodernist debate come alive." --Choice "Trouillot, a widely respected scholar of Haitian history is a first-rate scholar with provocative ideas Serious students of history should find his work a feast for the mind." --Jay Freedman, Booklist "Elegantly written and richly allusive, Silencing the Past is an important contribution to the anthropology of history. Its most lasting impression is made perhaps by Trouillot's own voice--endlessly agile, sometimes cuttingly funny, but always evocative in a direct and powerful, almost poetic way." --Donald L. Donham, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute "A sparkling interrogation of the past. A beautifully written, superior book." --Foreign Affairs "Silencing the Past is a polished personal essay on the meanings of history. It is filled with wisdom and humanity." --Bernard Mergen, American Studies International "An eloquent book." --Choice "Written with clarity, wit, and style throughout, this book is for everyone interested in historical culture." --Civilization "A beautifully written book, exciting in its challenges." --Eric R. Wolf "Aphoristic and witty, a hard-nosed look at the soft edges of public discourse about the past." --Arjun Appadurai 192pp.
- # B95 Weinstein, Brian and Aaron Segal HAITI: POLITICAL FAILURES, CULTURAL SUCCESSES NY: Praeger Publishers, 1984.
Dedicated to Jean Price-Mars, this study traces the impact of such people and factors as
occupation,Price-Mars, Duvalier, coffee, baseballs, Haiti and the world. Hard bound
book like new.
- $92.00
- The same book but under the title: HAITI: THE FAILURE OF POLITICS.
Hard bound, like new. $92.00
- # B96 Wilentz, Amy THE RAINY SEASON: HAITI SINCE DUVALIER. Well-known and high touted book of the
post-Duvalier days and the rise of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
- Hard bound in original dust jacket. Fine. $20.00
- Nice condition paper bound copy. $14.00.
- # B97 Wirkus, Faustin THE WHITE KING OF LA GONAVE 1932 account of the
author as U.S. marine on La Gonave.
- # B98 Wucker, Michele WHY THE COCKS FIGHT. DOMINICANS, HAITIANS AND THE STRUGGLE
FOR HISPANIOLA. Like two roosters in a fighting arena, the Dominican Republic and Haiti are encircled by barriers of geography and poverty. They share one Caribbean island, but their histories are as deeply divided as their cultures: one French-speaking and black, one Spanish-speaking and mulatto. And just as the owners of gamecocks contrive battles between their birds (a favorite sport in both countries) as a way of playing out human conflicts, Haitian and Dominican leaders stir up nationalist disputes or cultural and racial differences as a way of deflecting other kinds of turmoil. Michele Wucker's vivid account of these struggles highlights the features in Caribbean history that are still affecting Hispaniola today, including the often contradictory policies of the United States. 281 page study of the interrelationships between the two nations
and peoples with emphasis on the contemporary times.
- Hard bound in original dust jacket, like new. $22.00
- Soft cover, pre-publication copy, in very good condition, unmarked. $19.00.
- # B99 Zellon, James CREOLE IN ONE LESSON, WITH PHONETIC PRONUNCIATIONS Short few pages of phrases, with small dictionary. 1940. A very early relic and quite rare. Dark, but excellent condition.
- # B100 Gillespie, C. R. PAPA TOUSSAINT NY: toExcel, 1998. Paper bound novel
of the life of Toussaint. 388 pages.
- Published novel in fine condition. $30.00
- A typed copy the author sent me before it was published. Spiral binding, whole novel. $125.00
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