Haiti: Books For Sale
List as of April 17, 2008
Bob Corbett
1419 Tamm Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63139
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The list (List: Main-stacks -- E) 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 E, 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 few of the books 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.
- # 1470Z Alexis, Jacques Stephen GENERAL SUN, MY BROTHER Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1999.
Translate by Carrol Coates. Click on the title for my review of this marvelous novel.
Paper bound in very fine condition.
- #1524z Bell, Madison Smartt. ALL SOULS' RISING.
First volume of Madison Bell's trilogy on the character of Toussaint Louverture.
Paper bound novel, like new. Epic sized historical novel of 530 pages.
- #1526z Bell, Madison Smartt. THE STONE
THAT THE BUILDER REFUSED.
Final volume of Madison Bell's trilogy on the character of Toussaint Louverture.
Soft cover advance copy. 747 pages. Very good condition
- # 1520z Allen, Benedict LAST OF THE MEDICINE MEN London: BBC World Wide Limited, 2000. Hardcover, in original dust jacket, like new. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2, full color photo illustrations, index, 240 pages. - Witchdoctors can be priests, psychotherapists, performers, poets and entertainers to their communities, as well as doctors. In this fascinating series Benedict Allen examines four diverse cultures and places - the shanty towns of Haiti, the jungles of Siberut Island, the wastes of Siberia and the arid mountains of Mexico - and investigates the role of these enigmatic characters, variously known as witchdoctors, faithhealers and shamans within their communities. -- By observing their customs and rituals - and even taking part in them himself - Benedict unveils the varied, often complex and colourful, world of Shamanism and finds out what we in the West can learn from them.
- # PAM11 Martin Allwood C'EST UN BON PAYS / SE YOUN BON PEYI / IT'S A GOOD LAND P-a-P: Ateliers Fardin 1982. Paper bound, 31 pages of poetry as a "tribute to Haiti." Very good condtion.
- # 1542z Binsse, Henry PIERRE TOUSSAINT: A CATHOLIC UNCLE TOM Hard bound copy of the entire journal: Historical Records and Studies, Vol 12, June 1918. Pages 90-101. Published by U.S. Catholic Historical Society. This issue also has: Peter Condon "The Church in the Island of San Domingo" p. 7-28. Interestingly the reference to Uncle Tom is a positive reference. Also there is a novel of the period (when he lived or shortly after), called THE ECHOES OF A BELLE which uses Toussaint as one of the characters. p. 96. Also All Toussaint's papers were iven to the NY Public Library by Miss Georgine Schuyler. Henry Tuckman wrote a letter to the editor of Home Journal in Toussaint's time or just at his death about him. The novel referred to is: The Echoes of a Belle by Ben Shadow (author thought to be Mrs. Middleton, nee Irving). 1853, NY. Very good condition hard bound. Extremely scarce.
- # 1493Z Ashabranner, Brent TO SEEK A BETTER WORLD: THE HAITIAN MINORITY IN AMERICA NY: Cobble Hill / Dutton, 1997. Photographs by Paul Conklin.
Hard bound book in original dust jacket, like new. 88 pages. Nice photos on slick paper.
Haitian refugees seeking a better life.
- # 1485Z Averill, Gage ANRAJE TO ANGAGE: CARNIVAL POLITICS AND MUSIC IN HAITI Ethnomusicology, Vol. 38 # 2. Pages 217-247.
This 30 pages essay is in this volume of the magazine (whole magazine offered).
It is in like-new condition. Well-documented article with a few piece of noted melodies.
- # PAM 18 Biddulph, Joseph NOBLE LANGUAGE OF HAITI: NOTES ON HAITIEN AND THE CREOLES
Wales: Languages Information Center, 1996. 23 pages. Paper bound, fine condition and very small print.
- # 1780Z Boggs, Ralph Steele BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LATIN AMERICAN FOLKLORE NY: H.W. Wilson Company, 1940. Hardbound, fine condition.
109 pages. Annotated entries, over 600 of them. Organised as periodicals, general works, mythology, legends, folktales, poetry, music, dance, games, festivals, customs, drama, arts, crafts, dress, food, belief, witchcraft, medicine, magic, folk speech, proverbs, riddles. Index. Each country treated separately under the headings.
- # 60Z Bourguignon, Paul THE GREENER GRASS Rockville, MD: Ariadne Press, 1993.
This novel features a Belgian artist and writer who visits Haiti and Peru in search of the greener grass which must lie in some faraw75ay country. Written in 1960 and partially set in Haiti. Paperbound book line new.
- # 1498z Bryant, Elizabeth B. THE SPIDERS OF HISPANIOLA Cambridge, MASS.: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1948.
Bryant also wrote books on the spiders of serveral other Caribbean islands. Good condition, so tears on the front page of the magazine. This is about 200 pages with lots of plates of illustrations.
- # 1511z Casas, Bartolome de las THE DEVASTATION OF THE INDIES (A BRIEF ACCOUNT) Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
First-hand account by a Spaniard who was there in 1502. He knew all the famous conquistadores. His father went with Columbus, he became the first priest ordaned in the new world. Having recieved a slave as a gift, he had him repatriated. His book became a social and political bombshell, painting all Spanish activities in the new world in a bad light even down to this day. Small but extremely powerful. Many illustrations, 152 pages. Paper bound in fine condition.
- # 1510z Casas, Bartolome de las HISTORY OF THE INDIES (EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES)
New York: Harper and Row (Harper Torchbooks), 1971. This is las Casas's famous
treament of the Indies at the time of Columbus including the famous letter from
King Ferdinand on converting the Indians. Fine condition. 302 pages with index.
- # 1508z Casas, Bartolome de las IN DEFENSE OF THE INDIANS DeKalb, ILL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1992.
Tranlation of this famous work of de las Casas. 385p; translated by Stafford Poole; de las Casas carefully reasoned arguements that the Indians of the New World were not animals but uneducated, but able to be civilized i.e. converted by reason to Catholism; a major change in European attitudes toward the natives of the New World as put forward by Gines Sepulveda, Theologian of Cordoba. Paper bound, very fine condition.
- # 1512z Casas, Bartolome de las THE TEARS OF THE INDIANS Stratford, California:
Academic Reprints. This is a duplication of a 1656 translation of what is generally called In Defense of the Indians. Done by J.P. in London by Nath.Brook. There is no
date of the reprint, but it is printed to look just like the 1656 English translation.
It is printed in a way to make it look very much like it is the 1656 edition.
Very good condition.
- # 1479Z Catanese, Anthony HAITIANS: MIGRATION AND DIASPORA Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. Hardbound book in original dust jacket, like new. 143 pages includes extensive index.
- # PAM 9 Catholic Institute for International Relations HAITI: BUILDING DEMOCRACY London: Russell Press Limited, 1996. 36 pages of analysis.
Paper bound in fine condition.
- # 63Z Cave, Hugh B. FOUR PATHS TO PARADISE: A BOOK ABOUT JAMAICA London: Alvin Redman, 1962. Hardbound book in original dust jacket. Very fine condition. After Hugh Cave left Haiti he lived for several years in Jamaica and had a plantation where he raised some coffee. This is his travel, history and an analysis of Jamaica. 308 pps, B & W photographic illus., Sm 8vo, 'A vivid book which combines travel with history.'
- # 1476Z Chierici, Rose-Marie Cassagnol DEMELE: "MAKING IT" MIGRATION AND ADAPTATION AMONG HAITIAN BOAT PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES
NY: AMS Press, Inc., 1991. 332 pages. Hard bound, like new.
- # 1538z Chirot, Daniel MODERN TYRANTS Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. Chapters on Duvalier and Truijillo. Large paper bound book of 436 pages. Like new.
- # 1495Z Cochran, Doris M. THE HERPETOLOGY OF HISPANIOLA Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1941.
Illustrated throughout with black-and-white drawings and plates, this book contains the results of a study comissioned by the U.S. government to study reptiles and amphibians of Hispaniola. 398 pages, including index; approx. 6"x8". This is the most important study of herptology of Hispaniola ever done. Original publication, paper bound. Edges are a bit rough, but were never cut smoothly anyway. A bit worn but very good condition overall.
- # 1471z Cooper, Donald B. THE WITHDRAWL OF THE UNITED STATES FROM HAITI, 1928-1934 Journal of Inter-American Studies: Vol V, No. 1,
pages 83-101. Reprinted article from the journal cited. Very good condition.
- # 1529z THE CRADLE OF THE NEW WORLD Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume XLVI,
issue CCLXXV. Pages 641-658. Disbound article. Travel. Original article from 1873.
- # 1488Z Davis, Kortright EMANCIPATION STILL COMIN': EXPLORATIONS IN CARIBBEAN EMANCIPATORY THEOLOGY Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1990. Paper bound in
fine condition. 164 pages with index. Study of the role of Liberation Theology
in the 1980s in L.A., including Haiti.
- # 62Z De Leeuw, Hendrik CROSSROAD OF THE CARIBBEAN SEA NY: Julian Messner, Inc., 1935. Hardbound, worn but good condition. Travel writer visits Haiti, where he finds Port-au-Prince the most beautiful and cleanest city in the Antilles. Most of the Haiti chapter is a short simple history of Haiti. He does make the standard visit to the Citadel, and meets with President Stenio for some very pro-occupation talk.
- # 1475z Dominique, Alexandre and Christian Aime ANNUAL REPORT OF THE FISCAL DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR OCTOBER 1948 - SEPTEMBER 1949: BANQUE NATIONALE DE LA REPUBLIQUE D'HAITI Port-au-Prince: Imprimerie de l'Etat, 1949. 131 pages.
Filled with charts and graphs of finances. Paper bound in good condition.
- # 1518z Dorsinville, Roger THE RULE OF FRANCIOS "PAPA DOC" DUVALIER IN TWO NOVELS BY ROGER DORSINVILLE Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.
Edited and translated by Max Dorsinville Contains two novels: 1. THE MAD KING and 2. THE CREATOR AND THE MAD KING It also contains some other material, interviews and such. It argues that the novels fit in the tradition of Joseph Conrad's narratives exploring the darker side of human behaviour. 310 pages includes bibliography. Hard bound and like new.
- # PAM 17 Forbes, W. Cameron et al.,
REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION FOR THE STUDY AND REVIEW OF CONDITIONS IN THE REPUBLIC OF HAITI
Washington, DC: U.S. Gov. Printing Office, 1930. Paper bound, 45 pages. Influencial commission in ending the U.S. Occupation.
- # 59Z C.S. Forester ADMIRAL HORNBLOWER IN THE WEST INDIES Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1986. Liek new paperback reprint of this classic pirate novel set in the Caribbean of the 18th century.
- # 1509z Friede, Juan and Benjamin Keen BARTOLOME DE LAS CASAS IN HISTORY : TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE MAN AND HIS WORK DeKalb, ILL: Northern Ill University Press, 1971
Hard bound in original dust jacket, fine condition. 4 black & white maps; 1 color fold-out map; 18 black & white illustrations with 17 woodcuts from the Debrey edition of 1598. (Became "Protector of the Indians" & devoted 50 yrs to the destruction of Indian slavery) Northern Ill (1971), 632 pp.
- # 1473Z Galeano, Eduardo MEMORY OF FIRE: FACES AND MASKS NY; Pantheon Books, 1987. Hard bound book in original dust jacket. Very fine condition. This title has been translated into english by Cedric Belfrage. A unique work , Memory of Fire: Faces and Makes is the extraordinary second volume of a great and ambitious project, a kind of historical fiction that resists categorization. In a voice stirring in its originality, Eduardo Galeano re- creates the turbulent saga of the conquest of the Americas, and above all Latin America. This volume centers around Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution.
- # 69Z Goetz, Delia NEIGHBORS TO THE SOUTH NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1941.
Hardbound, show wear but good condition. Elementary school geography book with section on Haiti. B/w photos.
- # 61Z Guerrant, Edward O. ROOSEVELT'S GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY Albuquerque, NM: The University of New Mexico Press, 1950.
Hardbound book in dust jacket. Book is in very fine condition. The index reveals quite a few pages with Haiti references on them.
- # PAM 5 A GUIDE TO HAITI NY: Haiti Tourist Information Bureau, 1953.
44 page booklet with National Palace on cover. Many b/w photos, ads, and basic tourist data. Good condition.
- # 1505z Hanke, Lewis BARTOLOME DE LAS CASAS: BOOKMAN, SCHOLAR AND PROPAGANDIST
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1952. Hard bound in dust jacket, very fine condition. 119 pages with index. The first thorough analysis of Las Casas' History of the Indies.
- # 1506z Helps, Arthur LIFE OF LAS CASAS: THE APOSLE OF THE INDIES
London: George Bell and Sons, 1873. Born in Seville in 1474, Bartholomew de Las Casas, eventually a Dominican & called "Protector of the Indians, " was 28 years old when he made his first voyage to the Indies with his father and under Columbus. He was 92 when he contended before Philip in favor of "the Guatemalans having Courts of Justice of their own." In his life he fulfilled several vocations, and wrote the History of the Indies. Sir Arthur Helps was a close friend of Queen Victoria, who very soon learned to greatly appreciate his powers of mind, his intuition and discernment, his skill in the analysis of character, and his masterful grasp of business exigencies. Hardboud, worn but very nice
condition. 292 page.
- # 1465Z Hennan, Clarence W. HAITI: POSTAL HISTORY AND STAMPS Chicago: Publication is a signle volume of essays which appeared in The American Philatelist from 1953 and 1954. Pages carry the number of the page they appeared on in the magazine, but it must be 200 pages. Rough printing, but
all is there and in good condition.
- # PAM 4 HAITI NY: The National Council, Department of Missions and Church Extension 1926. Very small pamphlet, 4.5x7. 16 pages, slick paper with some nice quality b/w photos. Basic data and mission work. Very scarce.
- # PAM 3 HAITI Tourist pamphlet about 1957 or 58. Photographs (poor) and basic tourist data. Cover is drawing of Citadel. Back cover of Raymond-les-Bains, beach scene. 24 pages. Nice map inside which was never part of the book. Scarce.
- # PAM 15 HAITI Washington, DC: Organization of American States, 1970.
47 pages, paper bound on slick paper. Lots of quality b/w photos. Overview of the country. Updated from 1963 version.
- # PAM 14 HAITI Washington, DC: Pan American Union, 1947
31 pages, on slick paper with wonderful b/w photos from the period.
- # PAM 2 HAITI AND JAMAICA CRUISES FROM MIAMI SS Yarmouth. 1 page front and back fold-out advertising circular
- # PAM 7 Haiti Government Tourist Bureau A GUIDE TO HAITI NY: Waldon Press, 1958. 64 pages. Colorful front cover with dance troop. Tourist info, many b/w photos of all areas of the country. Ads. And a
very curious bibliography on the last page. Quite a scarce and fascinating booklet.
- # 70Z Hale, Thomas DON'T LET THE GOATS EAT THE LOQUAT TREES
Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Books, 1986. Paper bound in very good condition.
Not directly on Haiti, but about the problems of overpopulation and how they affect
third-world nations.
- # 1481Z Hattenbach, Tony HOT TIMES IN HAITI P-a-P: Les Editions Jean-Marc et Stephanie, 1994.
8vo; Photos; 150 pp. Paperbound line new. Author Hattenbach moved to Haiti in 1958 and recounts a great deal of the goings in, good, bad and other.
- # 1499Z Hoetink, H. THE TWO VARIANTS IN CARIBBEAN RACE RELATIONS
NY: The Institute of Race Relations, 1967. 207 pages with index. Quite a few
references to Haiti, especially in relation to the Dominican Republic. Hard bound book in very good condition.
- # 1500z Hyppolite, Michel-Ange ZILE NOU Pierrefons, QB: Edisyon Production Koukourouj, 1989
104 page collection of poems of the author presented in Creole, French and English.
Paper bound, fine condition.
- # 74Z Jane, Cecil, editor THE FOUR VOYAGES OF COLUMBUS NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1988/ Two volumes bound as one This Dover edition, first published in 1988, is a slightly altered and corrected republication in one volume of Nos. LXV and LXX of the Second Series of works published by the Hakluyt Society, London, in 1930 and 1933 respectively... under the title of SELET DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATING THE FOUR VOYAGES OF COLUMBUS: INCLUDING THOSE CONTAINED IN R.H. MAJOR'S ( Major ) SELECT LETTERS OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. Contains: Letter of Dr. Chanca, written to the City of Serville. Andres Bernaldez History of the Catholic Sovereigns Don Ferdinand and Dona Isabella, Chapters 123-131.
- # PAM 1 Jegen, Mary Evelyn HAITI: THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES Erie, Pa: Benet Press, 1987. 58 page booklet, in fine condition. Chapters on: A struggle for justice, Women in Haiti, Christian base communities, Teaching people to read, Together in hope.
- # 1516z Keusch, Gerald T. and Michael Katz SYMPOSIUM ON EFFECTIVE INTERVENTIONS TO REDUCE INFECTION IN MALNOURISHED POPULATIONS The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. This issue of the magazine is from a conference held in Port-au-Prince in 1977. Several esssays and papers.
Paper bound and very good condition.
- # 1499z Knight, Melvin M. THE AMERICANS IN SANTO DOMINGO NY: Vanguard Press, 1928. (Studies in American Imperialism), 1928. xviii 189p green cloth. Very good condition. Primarily about the U.S. relations with the Dominican Republic from early times to 1928.
- # 1503z Laraque, Paul et al., HAITI 1986 OR DANCING ON A VOLCANO This is the whole issue of the Journal: Left Curve,
# 11, pages 20-35. By the Jacques Roumain Cultural Brigade and includes, Boadiba, Zaza Marechal Soley, Felix Morisseau-Leroy, J.F. Briere, Danrrell Gauff, Tristan Remy and Jacques Roumain
- # PAM 12 Laurent, Gerard A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC OF HAITI FOR FOREIGNERS P-a-P: Imp. La Phalange. Fascinating small 35 page paper bound booklet from the tourist office. Very good condition. No date.
Just what it says: well-written short history of Haiti. B/w photos.
- # PAM 13 Laurent, Gerard HAITI: MUCH TO KNOW, MUCH TO SEE, MUCH TO DO P-a-P: Imp. La Phalange. Fascinating small 40 page paper bound booklet from the tourist office. Very good condition. No date, but at the time P-a-P is listed as having a population of 350,000 people. Also fascinating is that a phone call to Washington was
$7.50 and $9.00 to New York. Photo of the Francois Duvalier airport. Lots of hotel data and such. B/w photos.
- # 1407Z Lemoine, Patrick FORT-DIMANCHE: DUNGEON OF DEATH Freeport, NY: Fordi9, 1997. "... a vivid testimony of the most horrendous kind of mental and physical cruelties that we can inflict on our fellow man. Patrick Lemonines's harrowing tale about his years of imprisonment in one of the worst
dungeons in the world...." Paper bound like new. 284 pages.
- # 1536z Luke, Sir Harry THE KING OF HAITI AND HIS CITADEL Whole issue of: The Geographic Magazine. XVIII,
No. 11, 441-448. Good article on the Citadel with b/w photo. 1946.
Magazine is in very good condition.
- # 1467 Miller, Gerrit S. THREE SMALL COLLECTIONS OF MAMMALS FROM HISPANIOLA Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1930. 10 pages and a few photos.
- # 1528z Miller, Jake C. THE PLIGHT OF HAITIAN REFUGEES NY: Praeger 1984.
222 pages. Hard bound in fine condition. Important analysis. Scarce.
- # 72Z Morison, Samuel Eliot ADMIRAL OF THE OCEAN SEA Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942.
Hard bound. Heavy and large. Very Good, Slightly Edgeworn. Greene, Bertram; Maps By Erwin Raisz (illustrator). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. brick cloth binding, rubbed at edges. Pages very slightly aged. 680 pages. The previous owner cut and dust jacket into two pieces and glued it into two blank pages at the front of the book. Classic study of Columbus.
- # 73Z Morison, Samuel Eliot CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, MARINER NY: The New American Library, 1955. Paperback. Good condition. 160 page shortened version of his classic study of Columbus.
- # PAM 6 National Office of Tourism and Public Relations A NEW GUIDE TO HAITI P-a-P: National Office of Tourism and Public Relations, 1970.
Colorful tourist brochure with colorful cover. Papa Doc's days. Ads and tourist attractions. 80 pages, many b/w photos, maps. Very fine condition.
- # 1473z Ninety-First Congress PROJECT NASSAU: NETWORK NEWS DOCUMENTARY PRACTICES -- CBS "PROJECT NASSEAU" Washington, DC: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 1970. Hearings before the Special Subcommitttee on Investigations of the Committee on Interstate and foreign commerce House of Representatives: Ninety-first Congress, First and Second sessions. July 17, 24,30, September 11, 17, November 7, 1969; February 10, April 16, 1970. Serial No. 91-55. Includes interesting material on Papa Doc Duvalier and Haitian Refugees. Paper bound. 487 pages.
- # 1478Z Organization of American, States REPORT ON THE SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN HAITI Washington, DC: Organization of American States, 1979.
8.5x11 paper bound, 81 pages. Important historical document since it is one of the later reports on Human Rights in the last years of the Duvalier regime. Fine condition.
- # 1540z Orjala, Paul PUBLISHING THE WORD Kansas City, Mo: Nazarene Publishing House, 1965. Missionary book about publishing and sending missionaries out. Some parts of it have to do with mission work in Haiti. Paper bound in good condition.
- # 1530z Paris, Barry SONG OF HAITI: THE LIVES OF DR. LARIMER AND OWEN MELLOW AT THE ALBERT SCHWEITZER HOSPITAL OF DESCHAPELLES NY: Public Affairs, 2000. Lives of Dr. Larimer and Gwen Mellon at Albert Schweitzer Hospital of Deschapelles. 338 pages. Hard bound
in original dust jacket in very fine condition. Stated first edition.
- # 67Z Perkins, Dexter THE UNITED STATES AND THE CARIBBEAN Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1947.
Insteresting material on Haiti: A decent summary of problems with education on p. 77. p. 109--115. Some positive and negative feature of the occupation p. 80-81. Health care in 1966 books. Doctors to population- 1--11, 904 hospitals beds per 1000 1-- 0.07 comparisons with other countries there too. Hardbound book in dust jacket in good condition.
- # 1533z 4 ISSUES OF PHILATELIST
- Purves, J.R.W. THE 'LARGE PALMS' ISSUE OF 1891-93. Vol. 39, # 5 Sept., 1969. pp. 217-232.
- B Dalismer, Sam. HAITI: POSTCRIPT ON THE 1889 BLACK CAP-HAITIEN HANDSTANP. Vol. 44 no. 4, July, 1965, pp. 236-238. (2 copies)
- C. Sellers, F.B. UNCOMMON USE OF COMMON STAMPS. Vol. 44 no. 5. Sept. 1965. pp. 295-296
- # 1492Z Phipps, Marilene CROSSROADS AND UNHOLY WATER Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000.
A book of poetry by Haitian-American poet. First full-length collection by the author. Embodies a fully initiated voice that dares some old truths through youthful language.
The poetry in this collection invites the reader to share sharp slices of the writer's Caribbean experience: Haiti is both stage and backdrop for people who move in various strata of the social scheme and through the three stages of life, in lieu of answers to the Sphinx's riddle.
- # 1487Z Plummer, Brenda Gayle HAITI AND THE UNITED STATES: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL MOMENT Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1992.
Paperbound in fine condition. 303 pages with index. An important study.
- # 1482Z Portes, Alejandro and Alex Stepick CITY ON THE EDGE: THE TRANSFORMATION OF MIAMI Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992.
An analysis of the impact of boat-people immigration on Miami. Paper bound,
very fine condition, 281 pages with index.
- # 66Z Rainey, Rich HAUNTED HISTORY NY: Warner Books, 1992.
Paperback. Very good condition. 197 pages. Various stories from history.
It includes a piece in which Charlemagne Perault is looked at as some sort of rebirth of Charlemagne. The story is about his being killed by U.S. marines. Pages 20-32.
- # 1483Z Renda, Mary A. TAKING HAITI: MILITARY OCCUPATON AND THE CULTURE OF U.S. IMPERIALISM, 1915-1940 Chapel Hill, NC: THe University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Exploring the cultural dimensions of the US contact with Haiti through a range of examples from the occupation and its aftermath, this text shows that what Americans thought and wrote about Haiti during those years contributed in crucial and unexpected ways to an emerging culture of Imperialism. Paper bound, like new, 414 pages.
- # 1496z Schwartz, Albert THE BUTTERFLIES OF HISPANIOLA Gainsville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1989. The classic study of this topic. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Like new. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Red hardcover shows no wear, is clean, tight and unmarked. 580 pages. Includes sections on Hesperlidae, Papilionidae, Pieridae, Libytheidae, Hekucibukdae, Nymphalidae, Apaturidae, Satyridae, Ithomitdae, and Danaidae.
- # 1496z Schwartz, Albert HAITIAN BUTTERFLIES Santo Domingo, DR: Museo Nacional de historia natural, 1983.
Quite scarce. Small printing, seldom seen for sale. Very nice condition. 69 pages.
- # 1489Z Spillman, Rev Joseph S. J. BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL: A TALE OF THE NEGRO UPRISING IN HAITI St. Louis, MO: B. Herder, 1906. 135 pages history of the Haitian Revolution. Translated from German. Very very scarce.
- Nice edition of this scarce book, some writing on back (blank) page. $47.00
- Also have a lovely 1925 version of this book. $39.00
- # 1501z Stamper, W. J. BEYOND THE SEAS Seems to have been privately printed in 1935.
Former Marine. Several of the stories in the book are set in Haiti and were published separately in various magazines. They deal with Haiti during the U.S. Occupation.
N.p. {Norfolk, Virginia: W. J. Stamper], 1935. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1] 2-215 [216: blank], original printed yellow textured paper wrappers with black quarter-cloth spine, side-stapled. First edition. The author's first (and only?) book. Collects sixteen short stories of adventure, including weird fantasy. Stamper was an early contributor to WEIRD TALES, and his six contributions to the magazine published in 1925 and 1926 are collected here. Others appeared in WIDE WORLD ADVENTURE MAGAZINE, IT, and DANGER TRAIL MAGAZINE. "Lips of the Dead," the author's first story, was published in WEIRD TALES and subsequently appeared in the first of the "Not at Night" anthologies. It, like several others here, is set in Haiti and involves voodoo. Includes a brief foreword by Arthur J. Burks, fellow Marine and pulp fiction author. A crudely produced book, reproduced from typewritten rather than typeset copy. Day, The Checklist of Fantastic Literature in Paperbound Books, p. 68. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992). Three chips from the cloth spine panel, several light stains to the front wrapper, small store stamp on front cover, a very good copy. An extremely scarce book.
- # 1512z Stopsky, Fred BARTOLOME DE LAS CASAS Lowell, MA: Discovery Enterprise, Ltd., 1992. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. 52 pp with chronology and bibliography.
- # 1514z Tavares, Juan Tomas THE INDIANS OF HISPANIOLA Barcelona: Editora de Santo Domingo, 1978. Tan paper-covered hard boards with brown lettering and illustration, B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 64 pages. Chapters on culture, religious beliefs, dress and ornaments, housing, technical knowledge, agriculture and nutrition, weapons and enemies, political and social structure and awesome drawings of the animals of
Hispaniola and the history of the Arawaks after Columbus. Very fine condition
- # 68z Taylor, Ida A. REVOLUTIONARY TYPES London: Duckworth and Co, 1904.
Hardbound book in fine condition. 21 page treatment of Toussaint Louverture.
Includes several other figures as well including Washington and Benidict Arnold.
- # 1464 Tinker, Clifford Albion THE AMERICAN OCCUPATION OF HAITI AND SANTO DOMINGO
The American Review of Reviews: Undated disbound copy of this article. Could be 1922.
pages 46-60. Nice b/w photos on slick paper.
- # 1504z Wagner, Henry Raup, with the collaboration of Helen Rand Parish THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF BARTOLOME DE LAS CASAS Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico, 1967.
Brother Casas was ahead of his time, the mid to late 17th century, in his writings for the humane treatment of the American Indians in New Spain. 1st Edition. 310 pp. index, catalog of the writings of La Casas, Short buiography of Wagner by George Hammond.
The first full and indistorted picture of the protector of the indians as a man of action and a man of words. Hard bound, large and heavy book in original dust jacket.
Book is in very fine condition.
- # 1515z Waugh, Alex A FAMILY OF ISLANDS: A HISTORY OF THE WEST INDIES Garden City, NJ: Doubleday and Company, 1964. 348 pages.
History of the West Indies from 1942 to 1898, with Epilogue re events from Spanish American War to Castro. In original dust jacket, hard bound book in very good condition.
- # 65Z Weston, Rubin Francis RACISM IN U.S. IMPERIALISM Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1972.
Hardbound book in dust jacket. Fine condition. xv; 291 pp. "Dr. Weston traces the influence of racism on American foreign policy from the formative stage of the imperialist campaign in 1893 up to the independence of the Philippines in 1946, frequently documenting his arguments with the words of the men who made America's foreign policy during her imperial era.". Long chapter of 50 or so pages on Hispaniola.
- # 1527z Wheeler, W. M. and W. M. Mann THE ANTS OF HAITI
From: American Museum of Natural History - 1914: XXXIII, Issue 1, pages 1-61. Lots of illustrations. Fine condition.
- # 1484Z WHO'S NEXT FOR THE FLIGHT? POLITICAL SUCCESSION IN HAITI IN THE LAST THREE YEARS Kingston, Jamaica: Association of Development Agencies, 1989.
Paperbound analysis. Features Baby Doc, Aristide, issues related to boat people and other analyses. Quite interesting analysis of how things were seen in the heat of the period.
24 pages.
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