Haiti: Books For Sale

List as of April 8, 2008

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

The list (List: Main-stacks -- C) has 100 items offered. They are numbered. As items sell I will removed them, but you can just tell me the NUMBER of the book you want. This is list C, but the numbers are from my own library, so just give me the number of the book itself. If you wish to include the author as well, so there is no confusion.

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.

• # 1390Z    Acker, Kathy     LITERAL MADNESS    Three novels in one book. The novel: KATHY GOES TO HAITI is one of the three novels in this intellectualized porno book. I have it on authority of someone who knows the Kathy in question that the song did indeed spark the book. The Kathy novel is 170 pages. Two other novel of similar length in this volume are: My Death, My Life by Pier Paulo Passolini, and Florida. Paper bound in very good condition.
  • $16.00
  
  
  
• # 892Z    Arthur, Charles     AFTER THE DANCE, THE DRUM IS HEAVY: HAITI ONE YEAR AFTER THE INVASION    London: Haiti Support Group 1995. Paper bound pamphlet of 40 pages of small print. The title proverb gives one the editorial stance of the author. Well done analysis. Useful.
  • $15.00
  
  
  
• # 1371Z    Barskett, Sir James     HISTORY OF THE ISLAND OF ST. DOMINGO: FROM ITS FIRST DISCOVERY BY COLUMBUS    London: Frank Cass, 1972. Reprint of the 1818 original. Hard bound in original dust jacket, fine condition. Barskett seems to be mainly relying on Charlevoix and to a lesser extent on Abbe Raynal. He seems to be using an English translation of Raynal's book: History of the Settlement and Trade in the East and West Indies. p. 68. Wonderful passage on "the exterminator" p. 69 ff. Great section on Morgan the pirate. 416 pages with appendix.
  • $110.00
  
  
  
• # 1303Z    Basch, Linda Nina Glick Schiller and Cristina Szanton Blanc    NATIONS UNBOUND: TRANSNATIONAL PROJECTS POSTCOLONIAL PREDICAMENTS AND DETERRITORIALIZED NATION-STATES    Langhorne, PA: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1994. Hard bound in dust jacket, like new. 344 pages, index. This work examines an increasing trend in migration - transnationalism. Immigrants today are no longer rooted in one location. By building transnational social networks, economic alliances and political ideologies, they are able to cross the geographic and cultural boundaries of both their countries of origin and of settlement. Through ethnographic studies of immigrant populations from St Vincent, Grenada, Haiti and the Philippines to the United States, the authors aim to demonstrate that transnationalism is something other than expanded nationalism. They argue that by placing immigrants in a limbo between the settler and visitor, transnationalism challenges the concepts of citizenship and nationhood. Much of the study is focused on Haiti.
  • $39.00
  
  
  
• # 24z   Becker, Stephen.nbsp;   A RENDEZVOUS IN HAITI.. nbsp;   1987 hardbound, first edition novel set in the first U.S. occupation of Haiti.
  • With dj: $20.00.

• # 37Z    Billington, Roy     HEALTH HAS MANY FACES    London: Edinburgh House, 1978. Interesting little book of 108 pages which deals with health care in third-world nations. It isn't directly on Haiti, but lots of relevant material. Paper bound in fine condition.
  • $5.00
  
  
  
• # 864Z    Bonsal, Stephen     THE AMERICAN MEDITERRANEAN    NY: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1912. 488 pp. Hard bound in good conditin. B/w plates throughout, color fold out map in back. A fascinating examination of the pre WW1 Caribbean world. The history of the conquest and exploitation of the area is covered, along with contemporary social and political observations. Nearly 100 pages on Haiti. A chapter on the Dominican Republic and an especially interesting one on the Panama canal. Other countries as well. A useful reference work for students of the region or period.
  • $30.00
  
  
  
• # 1374Z    Brown, Jonathan     THE HISTORY AND PRESENT CONDITION OF ST. DOMINGO    London: Frank Cass, 1972. Reprint of the 1837 work. This is two volumes. Vol. 1 is 307 pages and Vol. 2 is 289 pages. Both these volumes are hard bound in original dust jacket in like new condition.
  • $140.00
  
  
  
• # 1361Z    Calixte, Colonel D. P.     HAITI: THE CALVARY OF A SOLDIER     NY: Negro University Press (reprint), 1969. This is a hard bound reprint of a 1939 book. Calixte writes a work to defend himself from charges of corruption and an attempted coup d'etat in the 1930s. The work, while self-serving and quite one-sided, gives an insight to the last years of the occupation and the immediate aftermath. Very scarce book. Like new.
  • $52.00
  
  
  
• # 1308Z    Cooper, Anna Julia     SLAVERY AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONISTS (1788-1805)    Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1988. Translated from the French and written by Cooper, an American black woman living in Paris, in the 1920s. Very scarce book. Hard bound like new, 228 pages with index.
  • $100.00
  
  
  
• # 1385BZ    Craige, John H.     CANNIBAL COUSINS    Reader's Digest from March 1935 with readings from the book. Whole issue of Reader's Digest of March, 1935 is offered. The Craige piece is pages 47-50.
  • $7.00
  
  
  
• # 1383Z    Dale, George A.     EDUCATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF HAITI    Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959. Extremely scarce study of the education in Hatii in late 1950s. Soft bound. 180 pages, many charts and graffs. Worthwhile study.
  • $52.00
  
  
  
• # 878Z    Earle, Thomas    THE LIFE TRAVELS AND OPINIONS OF BENJAMIN LUNDY    NY: Augustus M. Kelley, 1971. Original is from 1847. Reprint of this essential work on the life and work of this American abolitionist, tracing his place in the history of abolitionism, and with definitive material on his travels around the nation and especially to Texas and Mexico in the 1830s and 1840s where he recorded many observations about travel, the life of the inhabitants, American agitation in Texas against Mexico, and the presence of slavery. Reprint of the Philadelphia: 1847 edition. Includes his 1836 pamphlet, The War in Texas. Short appendix at the end on Hayti. 316 pages + 56. Hard bound, like new.
  • $22.00
  
  
  
• #898Z    Franck, Harry A.     SKY ROAMING ABOVE TWO CONTINENTS     NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1938. Chapter XIX is "African Haiti" p. 296-311. Wonderful travel / aventure from an earlier flyer. Includes Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, Barbados, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Cuba and more. Hard bound in original dust jacket. Lots of b/w photos on slick paper. Some tears on edges and top of dust jacket, book in very good. Nice book.
  • $18.00
  
  
  
• # 1372Z    Franklin, James     THE PRESENT STATE OF HAYTI (SAINT DOMINGO): WITH REMARKS ON ITS AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE, LAWS, RELIGION, FINANCES AND POPULATION ETC., ETC    London: Frank Cass, 1971. Reprint of an 1828 original. Hard bound in original dust jacket in like new condition. 411 pages. One of the very important early works on Haiti.
  • $160.00
  
  
  
• # 1386Z    Galvan, Manuel de Jesus     THE CROSS AND THE SWORD    Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1954. Hard bound novel in original dust jacket in fine condition. Reprint: First published in the 1890's, this is an historical novel about the Spanish conquest of Santo Domingo on Hispaniola. Translated by Robert Graves. A novel of Spaniards and Indians on Hispaniola in 16th century. p. 254. Las Casas brought wheat with him to Spain from Hispaniola to prove it could be grown there. --1523 was the end of Diego Columbus' stay. -- Diego Columbus was followed by Bishop Don Sebastian Ramirez.
  • $26.00
  
  
  
• # 1369Z    Gold, Herbert     SLAVE TRADE   NY: Arbor House, 1979. This is not about the slave trade in Saint Domingue, but about current conditions in selling little boys into sex slave trade for homosexual use. It is a novel and one of the scarcest books that Herb Gold has written. This is a hard bound copy in original dust jacket. Very fine condition. One critic says: "SLAVE TRADE is an extraordinary novel of many dimensions...It's as if Nabakov and Raymond Chandler were wrestling and writing in the same room." (Jerome Charyn).
  • $26.00
  
  
  
• # 858Z    Hazard, Samuel    SANTO DOMINGO, PAST AND PRESENT; WITH A GLANCE AT HAITI    New York, Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1873. An especially lovely copy of this well-known book. Pages 387-511 are specifically about Haiti, but much in the earlier sectin on Santo Domingo covers the flora and fauna of the whole island, and their interaction as countries. Lots of lovely drawings. This is a 1974 reprint of the original 1873 volume. It was reprinted in Barcelona and is a very lovely copy, like new.
  • $65.00

• # 1314Z    Healy, David     GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY IN THE WILSON ERA: THE U.S. NAVY IN HAITI, 1915-1916   Madison, Wisc: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1976. When the U.S. marines landed in Haiti, Healy was the one who was in charge in those early days. This is an account of those first two years of the occupation. Detailed and well0-written. 268 pages with index. Hard bound in original dust jacket, fine condition.
  • $42.00
  
  
  
• # 1316Z    Heinl, Robert Debs and Nancy Gordon, updated by Michael Heinl.     WRITTEN IN BLOOD: THE STORY OF THE HAITIAN PEOPLE 1492-1976.     This remains the best history of Haiti written in the English language. This copy is the 1996 update. Michael Heinl, son of the authors, deleted some 150+ pages of the original and updated the history including the 20 years since his parents' book. Paper bound volume of the 1996 volume, like new.
  • $78.00

• # 849Z    Hilton, Ronald editor     WHO'S WHO IN LATIN AMERICA    Standford, California: Standard University Press, 1951. 77 pages, hard bound in very good condition. This was a 7 volume project and this 7th volume is far and away the most scarce. Only 11 pages are on Haiti with about 15 or more entries per page. It is astonishing how many of the people entered are either people whose books I'm selling in this sale, or who are famous to all of us who read about modern Haiti -- artists, scholars, government officials and so on.
  • $82.00
  
  
  
• # 27Z    Jagessar, Dr Michael N.     FULL LIFE FOR ALL: THE WORK AND THEOLOGY OF PHILIP A. PORTER: A HISTORICAL SURVEY AND SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS OF MAJOR THEMES     Zoetermeer: Uitgeverij Boekencentrum, 1997. The author was born and raised on Dominica and from 1950-54 lived in Haiti as a missionary. This book includes a chapter on those days in Haiti.
  • $8.00
  
  
  
• # 860Z    Korngold, Ralph.     CITIZEN TOUSSAINT.     Cassic study of Tousssaint Louverture.
  • Hard bound in nice dust jacket. $22.00
  • Hard bound without dust jacket, nice condition. $20.00

• # 1311Z    Kuser, J. Dryden     HAITI: ITS DAWN OF PROGRESS AFTER YEARS IN A NIGHT OF REVOLUTION    Boston: The Gorham Press, 1921. Quite a few b/w photos in the book. Hard bound in very fine condition. This early edition is quite scarce. 8vo. pp 108, frontis + 20 illus. Also a later edition, printed in 1970 by Negro University Press. Like new. The quality of the photos in the later edition is not as crisp and clear as on the slick paper of the first edition.
  • 1921 eidtion: $72.00
  • 1970 reprint: $45.00
  
  
  
• # 866Z    Laraque, Paul     SELECTED POEMS OF PAUL LARAQUE    Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1988. 123 pages, soft bound. Very good condition. Poems in English and French.
  • $18.00
  
  
  
• # 884Z   Le Page, R. B. editor     PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE ON CREOLE LANGUAGE STUDIES    London: MacMillan & Co Ltd, 1961. Creole Language Studies, Number II. Held at the University College of the West Indies. March 28-April 4, 1959. Contains: De quelqus influences du Creole sur le Francais Officiel d'Haiti. Pradel Pompilus. Many other essays on a variety of Creole-related topics. Very early for formal study of Creole. 130 pages, hard bound with dust jacket. Very good condition and lovely book.
  • $27.00
  
  
  
• # PAM34    Mertens, Robert    BEOBACHTUNGEN AN ANOLIS UND MASKEN-LEGUANEN    Natur und Volk, Vol. 70. # 3, pages 137-144. 1940. Text in Germany. This the whole issue which contains this article.
  • $3.50
  
  
  
• # 863Z    Monroe, Gary     FLESH AND BLOOD: PHOTOGRAPHS OF HAITIANS    Miami: Central Press, 1987. 10x8 Photo book, pages no number but about 20-30. B/w photos of Haitian suffering in the period after Duvalier's fall and some photos from Little Haiti as well.
  • $15.00
  
  
  
• # 1388z    Morisseau-Leroy, Felix     HAITIAD & ODDITIES    Miami: Pantelon Guilbaud, 1991. 70 pages of poems in English and some drawings along the way. Book is paper bound and like new.
  • $15.00
  
  
  
• # 1376Z    PAPERS RELATING TO THE FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES WITH THE ANNUAL MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT    Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1902. Please note this is during the presidency of Teddy Roosevelt, not Franklin. Also, it was NOT during the U.S. Occupation but before that. The book itself is the whole giant book of all nations and is 1102 pages with a huge index. It will definitely cost extra postage. The Haiti section: pp. 587-682 (over 100 pages). Topics are: Revolution in Haiti Protectin of Cuban interests by U.S. consular officials Question of "right of asylum" in U.S. legislations and An accident to President Roosevelt. Hard bound book in good condition.
  • $125.00
  
  
  
• # 1325Z    Prichard, Hesketh    WHERE BLACK RULES WHITE    NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900 Very lovely copy of this original 1900 book. Dash claims that Prichard, along with Sir Spencer St. John, is one of the origins of the rumors of cannibalism in Haitian Voodoo in the 19th century. 288 page volume has many b/w photos as well as text about Haiti. As the title suggests, Prichard does NOT approve of black folks ruling. Quite scarce book, and especially the 1900 version.
  • $160.00
  
  
  
• # 23Z    Roberts, W. Adolphe     LANDS OF THE INNER SEA: THE WEST INDIES AND BERMUDA    NY: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1948. Chapter 15. Haiti: The Black Republic p. 230-251. 301 pages overall. Hard bound in good condition.
  • $11.00
  
  
  
• # 1318Z    Rouse, Irving     THE TAINOS: RISE AND DECLINE OF THE PEOPLE WHO GREETED COLUMBUS    New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. Octavo in color-illus self-wrappers; xii, 211 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm; bibliographical references (p. 187-201) and index. A noted archaeologist and anthropologist tells the story of the Tainos of the northern Caribbean islands, from their ancestry on the South American continent to their rapid decline after contact with the Spanish explorers. Bob Corbett comments that this book clarified a great deal for me about the Tainos. Very fine condition.
  • $24..00
  
  
  
• # 1327z    Russell, John H.     EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE AMERICAN HIGH COMMISSIONER AT PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI: 1929    Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1930. 110 pages of small print. Many graphs and charts. Very good condition. An important source document for study of the occupation.
  • $27.00
  
  
  
• # 1381Z    Schmidt-Schutt, Margarete     ARZTIN AUF HAITI    Berlin: Volksverband der Bucherfreunde, 1946. 309 pages. Hard bound, lovely book, worn, but nice. This work in German attests to the strong German presence in Haiti in war and post-War time.
  • $13.00
  
  
  
• # 1362Z    Shacochis, Bob     EASY IN THE ISLANDS    NY: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1985. Hard bound in dust jacket, fine condition. Book of short stories. from the front flyleaf: Here are sexy, savvy stories that will forever change the way you think of the Caribbean.
  • $6.50
  
  
  
• # 1310Z    Shacochis, Bob.     THE IMMACULATE INVASION     A 1999 hard bound like-new copy of this analysis of 1994 U.S. invasion and occupation of Haiti. 408 pages. Like new.
  • $12.00.

• # 1308Z    Shacochis, Bob     SWIMMING IN THE VOLCANO    New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993. "Bob Shacochis returns to the islands with a first novel possessed of the same beauty as the places and people of the Caribbean. The volcano at the heart of the island of St. Catherine has smoldered as ominously and impotently as its politics for years., but lately things seem to be heating up. Mitchell Wilson, an American expatriate and economist for the Ministry of Agriculture, becomes unwittingly embroilded in an internecine war between rival factions of the government. Into this potentially eruptive scene enters a woman, Johanna, whom Mitchell once loved and lost but who remains an enchanting and powerful temptation-one he will not resist." 518 pages.
  • # 1308Z, hard bound in original dust jacket in fine condition. $10.00
  • # 1360Z, paper bound, like new. $6.00
  
  
  
• # 29Z    Strabel, Thelma     CARIBEE    NY: Harper and Brothers, 1957. An exciting story set on the lush island of Martinique. Natural disaster and personal crisis shake the genteel world of Medora Durand. When her childhood friend from Pennsylvania, Tom Carruthers, notices the fear under which she constantly lives and decides to become involved, both are forever changed. Not directly to do with Haiti, but interesting novel with lots of Caribbean flavor. Hard bound in original dust jacket, in very fine condition.
  • $7.00
  
  
  
• # PAM36    Thomas, Richard    TWO NEW SUBSPECIES OF AMPHISBAENA (AMPHISBAENIA, REPTILIA) FROM THE BARAHONA PENINSULAR OF HISPANIOLA    Breviora Museum of Comparative Zoology: $ 215, pages 1-14, 1965.
  • $5.00
  
  
  
• # PAM33    Thomas, Richard and Albert Schwartz    THE MONTICOLA GROUP OF THE LIZARD GENUS ANOLIS IN HISPANIOLA    Breviora Museum of Comparative Zoology: # 261. Pages 1-27, 1967. Very good condition.
  • $10.00
  
  
  

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