HAITI: BOOKS AND ARTICLES ON HAITI VOODOO

List as of January 21, 2008

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

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BOOKS READY FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY.

Shipping is $3.00 for the first book and $.50 for each additional book, book rate. Insurance or priority shipping are extra. Delivery outside the U.S. will be arranged.

• (1889).    VOODOOISM IN HAITI    This is an article in an 1889 newspaper. It is a large full newspaper, not just the article and I have it in a large tube. Mailing would have to be separate for other items and would be $4.00.
  • $18.00
  
  
  
• (1999).    HAITIAN VODOU FLAGS   . Hartford, CT, Widner Gallery, Trinity College. Exhibition brochure. Fold-out to 6 pages. Cardboard. Colorful with two flags pictured and data about the 1999 exhibition. Like new. This item will only take $1.00 postage.
  • $3.00
  
  
• Aboudja    VOODOO: HAITI'S DEMOCRATIC WAY OF LIFE   Unpublished 5 page essay on the role of Voodoo in Haiti. About 1988. Just $1.00 postage.
  • $2.00
  
  
• Anon    BEADED AND SEQUINED VOODOO VEVE BANNERS: AN ART FORM FROM HAITI.   Privately printed 1985. Very early comments on the beaded banners. Unnumbered pages, but about 20 or so. Historically very interesting.
  • $15.00
  
  
• Anon (1937)    BLACK HAITI: WHERE OLD AFRICA AND THE NEW WORLD MEET   Life Magazine Vol. 3, (No 24): pages 26-31. Large photos and text in the magazine. This is the whole large style Life magazine.
  • $12.00
  
  
• Anon (1980).    ART HAITIEN / L'ESPRIT NOIR   . Davenport, IA, Davenport Museum of Art. Lovely 5 page brochure for an exhibition at the museum of the work of four artists. They are pictured in the brochure and there are short biographies. ((Rigaud Beniot, Murat Brierre, Damien Paul, Yves Michel). One color image on the cover, and three b/w images inside, one image of each artist's work. 8x5 inches. Like new.
  • $10.00
  
  
• Anonymous (1960).    DEMON EXPERIENCES IN MANY LANDS: A COMPILATION   . Chicago, Moody Press. Small paperbound book of 128 pages. Includes a second on Haiti among many other nations.
  • $5.00
  
  
• Bach, Marcus. STRANGE ALTARS 1950s non-fiction book on Haitian Voodoo religion.
  • Hardbound in dust jacket, both in fine condition. $28.00
  • Paper bound in decent condition. $15.00.
  
  
• Ballinger, W. A. (1967).    DRUMS OF THE DARK GODS    New York, Paperback Library. Paper bound novel.
  • $7.00
  
  
• Beckwith, Carol and Angela Fisher. THE AFRICAN ROOTS OF VOODOO National Geographic, August, 1995. Pp. 102-113. Traces the roots of Voodoo back to Africa with great exceptional photos. Text too.
  • Like new. $7.50.

• Bell, Madison Smartt (1996)    MIROIR DANJERE   Hudson Review Vol. XLVIII, (No. 4): pages 587-605. This is a lengthy article from this magazine. This is a xerox copy.
  • $3.50
  
  
• Bevilacqua, J. (1980).    VOODOO -- MYTH OF MENTAL ILLNESS?    Journal of Mental Health Services    7 page article. Xerox copy only. (Fold 38p). Only $1.00 postage.
  • $1.00
  
  
• Booth, C. (1994).    VOODOO ON THE HUSTINGS.    Time Magazine article. Discound from the magazine, full page story. $.50 is enough for this one.
  • $.50
  
  
• Booth, W. (1993). .    BAD VOODOO    GQ Magazine, Vol. 63, (No 10): 230-237, 280-282. Cover of the magazine and the disbound very colorful article. $1.00 postage.
  • $2.00
  
  
• Breda, J. (1963)    LIFE IN HAITI:: VOODOO AND THE CHURCH   The Commonweal Magazine: p. 241-244. Xerox copy only. This article deals with Duvalier's expulsion of Catholic hierarchy and speculates on the politics of it. A decent overview of Voodoo and the Church. $1.00 postage.
  • $2.00
  
  
• Brown, Karen M. .    WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP IN HAITIAN VODOU   from: Weaving The Visions. THis is a xerox copy of a 9 page article from this book of essays. $1.50 postage.
  • $3.00
  
  
• Brown, K. M. (1987)   ALOURDES: A CASE STUDY OF MORAL LEADERSHIP IN HAITIAN VODOU   From: Saints and Virtues. 26 page article, xerox copy only, from a book of readings. $2.00 postage.
  • $5.00
  
  
• Brown, K. M. (1987).    THE POWER TO HEAL: REFLECTIONS ON WOMEN, RELIGION, AND MEDICINE   From: Shaping New Vision: Gender and Values in American Culture. 19 page xerox article. $2.00 postage.
  • $4.50
  
  
• Brown, K. M. (1989)    MAMA LOLA AND THE EZILIS: THEMES OF MOTHERING AND LOVING IN HAITIAN VODOU   From: Unspoken Worlds, Women's Religious Lives. 11 page xerox essay in a book of readings. $1.50
  • $2.50
  
  
• Brown, K. M. (1989).    SYSTEMATIC REMEMBERING, SYSTEMATIC FORGETTING: OGOU IN HAITI    From the book: AFRICA'S OGUN: OLD WORLD AND NEW. Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Press. This is just one essay in an entire book of essays. 274 page book in very fine conditon.
  • $16.00
  
  
• Brown, Karen McCarthy. MAMA LOLA Well-known, informative and entertaining account of a Haitian mambo in Brooklyn, NY. Brown worked with Mama Lola, went to Haiti with her and catalogues a fascinating account of Haitian Voodoo both in Haiti and in transition to New York.
  • Hard bound copy in like new condition, in the original dust jacket. $18.00
  • Paper bound like new: $15.00

• Brown, P. L. (1998)   WHERE THE SPIRITS FEEL AT HOME   The New York Times. 1998 Pages F1 and F5. I have the whole "F" section of the original newspaper, browned some with time. $2.50 postage. Photos as well.
  • $4.00
  
  
• Burns, Khephras (1992)   THE QUEEN OF VOODOO    Essence Magazine. Disbound single page story. Mentions Haiti in this single page story which is about Marie Laveau of New Orleans. $.50 postage.
  • $1.00
  
  
• Cannon, W. B. (1942).    VOODOO DEATH    American Anthropologist: Vol. 44, (no. 2): pages. 169-181 This is a 13 page xerox copy. $1.25 postage.
  • $3.00
  
  
• Carr, J. D. (1968).    PAPA LA-BAS: A NOVEL OF OLD NEW ORLEANS    New York, Harper and Row, Publishers. Hard bound in original dust jacket. Good condition.
  • $6.00
  
  
• Case, J. (1988).    HELLFIRE IN HAITI    New York, Warner Books Inc. Rip roaring paper bound novel.
  • $5.00
  
  
• Cave, Hugh B.    ON VOODOO    Cryptic Publications. 7 page xerox copy. $1.00 postage
  • $3.00
  
  
• Cave, Hugh. CROSS ON THE DRUM. Hard bound, 1959. Perhaps the best American novel on Haitian Voodoo which I know. Set on the island of La Torture, it concerns a Protestant missionary and a Voodoo houngan who come to understand one another and one another's religions.
  • Copy without dustjacket: $17.50
  • Copy with dustjacket: $22.00

• Cave, H. B. (1988).    DISCIPLES OF DREAD   . New York, Tom Doherty Associates, Inc A Papa Doc figure is ruling the country of San Merlo. His chief bokor uses an army of mushroom induced zombies to kill his enemies and keep people in order. An Erzulie-possessed woman saves the day. Little to offer about Haiti, but a fun book nontheless. There is a section where Cave preaches the difference between Voodoo and black magic. BC May, 1991. Hard bound novel in original dust jacket in fine condition.
  • $17.00
  
  
• Comhaire, J. L. (1953)   RELIGIOUS TRENDS IN AFRICAN AND AFRO-AMERICAN URBAN SOCIETIES    Anthropological Quarterly. Vol. 26, (no 1): pages. 95-109 14 page xerox article. $1.25 postage.
  • $3.00
  
  
• Cosentino, Donald L. SACRED ARTS OF HAITIAN VOODOO. A gigantic, colorful and important book on all aspects of art as they express Haitian Voodoo.
  • Paperbound edition, like new. $47.00. This is a new book, with many many color photos of such art work. Very heavy coffee-talbe style book. I also have to ask $6.00 in postage for this exceptionally heavy book

• Courlander, H. (1944)   GODS OF THE HAITIAN MOUNTAINS.    Journal of Negro History: vol 29 pages. 339-372. 36 pages, many of the long list, with descriptions, of various lwa. This is a xerox copy of just Courland's long article.
  • $10.00
  
  
• Courlander, H. (1960).    THE DRUM AND THE HOE: LIFE AND LORE OF THE HAITIAN PEOPLE   Berkeley, CA, University of California Press. Hard Cover. This is one of the most important books done on Haiti's folk music, along with his book Haiti Singing. This volume is 371 pp. and includes 109 pages of Haitian music. There are also b/w white photos.
  • This copy is the original 1960 very large hard bound in mind condition with original dust jacket. It will also require $4.00 postage. $58.00
  • This copy is paper bound later edition in fine condition. $28.00
  
  
  
• Courlander, Harold. THE BORDEAUX NARRATIVE. One of my favorite Haiti books. This is a novel and Harold Courlander told me that after many years of scholarly research he had a number of folk customs and legends collected which he just couldn't published as scholarly reports since the evidence was not strong enough. Yet he gave credence to these as common beliefs in Haiti. So, in his senior years he wrote this road-story novel to embody all these various legends. It is a marvelous read, and this is a very fine copy in hard bound with dust jacket.
  • $24.00.

• Crosley, Reginald, M.D. (2000).    THE VODOU QUANTUM LEAP: ALTERNATIVE REALITIES, POWER AND MYSTICISM   . St. Paul, Minn, Llewellyn Publications. 325 page analysis of many fundamental aspects of Vodou. The book is soft cover and like new.
  • $20.00
  
  
• Davis, Wade. THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW.. Large size paperback version of this now classic work on the process of zombification.
  • First edition hard bound in dust jacket. Like new. $17.00.
  • Also have fine condition paper bound. $10.00

• Davison, Jean (1976).    THE DEVIL'S HORSEMAN    Garden City, NY, Double Day and Company. Hard bound book in original dust jacket. Good condition. 149 page ex-library novel. "Young Laura Manning had good reason to accept her new post as governess, even if it did mean living on a remote estate in the strange land of Haiti. And for anyone as tough-minded as Laura, it was going to tke more than legends of voodoo and black magic to scrare her away."
  • $10.00
  
  
• Dayan, Joan    LOOKING FOR GHOSTS    The Yale Review. Date unknown. Disbound from the magazine. 11 page article.
  • $3.00
  
  
• Dayan, Joan (1995).    HAITI, HISTORY, AND THE GODS    Berkeley, CA, University of California Press. Hard bound book in original dust jacket. Like new. 339 pages. Traces the history of Voodoo in Haiti.
  • $25.00
  
  
• Denis, Lorimore     MEDICINE POPULAIRE   Unnamed journal and date. However, Denis was a co-author of many articles with Francois Duvalier before Duvalier became president. This is a 3 page French language xerox copy of the article. $.50 postage.
  • $1.00
  
  
• Denning, M. a. O. P. (1979).    VOUDOUN FIRE: THE LIVING REALITY OF MYSTICAL RELIGION    St. Paul, MN, Llewellyn Publications. Large book, 8.5x11. 161 pages. Authors say about this book: "... it presents some very remarkable and autenticated photographs, taken in Haiti, showing non-material phenomena occurring during the ceremonies. This book is on heavy slick paper. 20 pp of prelims + 162 pp, very good - condition, illustrations, color photographs, Photography by Gloria Rudolph. illustrations by Matthew Wood and Nan Bruno. Very good condition.
  • $52.00
  
  
• Deren, M. (1970).    DIVINE HORSEMEN: THE VOODOO GODS OF HAITI    New York, Chelsea House Publishers. This is simply a classic of issue of Voodoo in Haiti.
  • Hard bound volume, in original dust jacket. Fine condition. $38.00
  • Also 1970 paper bound in very good condition. $27.00
  
  
• Dern, P. (1957).    NURSE IN THE TROPICS    New York, MacFadden Books American nurse goes to Haiti, overcomes Voodoo and love problems to live happily everafter! The novel seem targeted toward mid to late teen girls. Paperback in good condition.
  • $8.00
  
  
• Devillers, Carole. HAITI'S VOODOO PILGRIMAGES OF SPIRITS AND SAINTS. National Geographic, March, 1985.
  • Just the article alone, nicely cut out of a magazine, $5.50.
  • Or, the whole magazine in "as new" condition. $5.00.

• Dohrman, Richard (1958).    THE CROSS OF BARON SAMEDI    Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co. A novel. "It is th account of a young Vermonter, Lt. Wiley of the U.S. Marine Corps. His role in the occupation of the turbulent Haiti of the 1920s and of two women who loved him ... and the mamelouc, the Paris-educated wife of a Haitian aristocrat." Hard bound first edition in original dust jacket. Very fine condition.
  • $18.00
  
  
• Dow, T. (1965).    PRIMITIVE MEDICINE IN HAITI   Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Vol 39 pages 34-52. Extensive 18 page essay. Xerox copy only.
  • $6.00
  
  
• Drot, J.-M. (1974).    JOURNAL DE VOYAGE CHEZ LES PEINTRES DE LA FETE ET DU VAUDOU EN HAITI   . Geneva, Editions d'Art Albert Skira. Fine condition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book is in hard cover illustrated with a painting of Prefette Duffaut. It has 94 pages, with a lot of picatures. The book measures 9-3/4" x 12". Text in FRENCH.
  • $70.00
  
  
• Duckworth, Michael    VOODOO ISLAND    Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1999. In this novel set in Haiti a developer wants to build houses on the site of an old cemetery. He runs into problems with locals. Paper bound and has some cartoon like drawings inside.
  • $7.00
  
  
• Durham, John S    DIANE, PRIESTESS OF HAITI    Lippincotts Magazine. Philadephia, 1902. My copy is in the bound volume of Lippincotts Magazine for 1902 which contains all 12 volumes of the year. The novel by Durham is in the April edition. The front cover of the 2 3/4 inch thick volume is loose. Inside all 12 issues of text are attached and in good condition. In the 80 pages of the novel itself there is one page which has a small 1/2 inch tear at the top, otherwise in very good condition. Durham (1861-1919) was U.S. Minister to Haiti until 1893. He is an African-American writer and this novel was not published except in this issue of Lippincotts, at least I have not been able to find any other mention of it. Extremely rare.
  • $2500.00

• Easterman, D. (1991).    NIGHT OF THE SEVENTH DARKNESS    New York, Harper Paperback Inspired by Wade Davis, in the style of Robert Ludlum, a Voodoo/Zombie/Haiti novel of world domination by African sect. The unusual thing is the bad folks win! Fun novel set in Haiti in parts. 434 page. Paperback. Nice.
  • $6.00
  
  
• Ferere, G. A. (1989).    LE VODOUISME HAITIEN -- HAITIAN VODOUISM   . Philadelphia, Saint Joseph's University Press. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. white cover, full text in English and French.
  • $33.00
  
  
  
• Ferere, N. T. (2005).    VEVE: RITUAL ART OF HAITIAN VODOU -- L'ART RITUEL DU VODOU HAITIEN -- ARTE RITUAL DEL VODU HAITIANO    Boca Raton, Fl, ReMe Art Publishing and Sandra Osse. Largish book, 8 5/8" x 11 1/4". 102 pages. Many full pages color illustrations of Veve, and text in French, English and Spanish. Very lovely book. Like new.
  • $35.00
  
  
• Galembo, P. (1998).    VODOU: VISIONS AND VOICES OF HAITI    Berkeley, CA, Ten Speed Press. 9"-11"; 113 pp; Priestesses, zombies, snakes, and swamps .voodoo, or vodou, is the dramatically symbolic spiritual tradition of many Afro-Caribbean people. It has beguiled and terrified outsiders for centuries, and its rich practices have often been campishly exoticized as the stuff of B movies. In VODOU, photographer Phyllis Galembo shows us the human and divine faces and voices of real Haitian vodou as it is practiced today. VODOU is based on Galembo's research and interviews with scores of practitioners and adherents, as well as participation in and witness of numerous vodou rituals. Fine condition.
  • $15.00
  
  
• Gant, N. (1991).    VOODOO FURY   New York, Diamond Books. Paper back novel. "First they witnessed the blood-drenched voodoo sacrifice, forbidden to the eyes of outsiders. Then they fled Haiti and returned home to Atlanta, safe at last with their little boy...."
  • $5.00
  
  
• Gayot, Bishop (1986). .    AN INTERVIEW WITH BISHOP GAYOT ON VOODOO   Interview with newspaper La Croix. This is a three page typed translation done by a nun in La Croix. Single spaced.
  • $15.00
  
  
• Gilfond, H. (1976).    VOODOO: ITS ORIGINS AND PRACTICES    New York, Franklin Watts Gilfond presents a fascinating look at Voodoo, an extremely important part of Haitian culture, which is authenticated by black-and-white photos and drawings of Voodoo symbols. Note from Bob Corbett: Actually this book is useful for adults too
  • $25.00
  
  
• Gooch, B. (2000).    ZOMBIE00    New York, The Overlook Press. Man on a journey seeking meaning goes to Haiti and meets more than he bargained for. Well written actually. Novel. 192 page hard bound book in original dust jacket and like new.
  • $5.00
  
  
• Gordon, Leah (2000).    THE BOOK OF VODOU: CHARMS AND RITUALS TO EMPOER YOUR LIFE    London, Quarto Publishing Co. Colorful book on heavy slick paper and lots and lots of color prints. 128 pages. Hard bound book in dust jacket is like news.
  • $15.00
  
  
• Gouge, Linda Lee (1981).    ESTHER'S GOD AND THE WITCH DOCTOR   Jefferson City, MO, Linda Lee Gouge. Long book for a children's story. It is set in Haiti during Revolution for independence, and the place of Voodoo in Haiti.
  • $25.00
  
  
  
• Grahame, Gordon Hill (1935).    THE VOODOO STONE    Toronto, The Ryerson Press. Hard bound copy of this very scarce book. An adventure story for pre-teen, teen boys. A ship runs aground in Haiti and boys have to explore, coming across scary Voodoo related scenes. Book is very good condition and quite difficult to find.
  • $50.00
  
  
  
• Gray, R. (1975).    VOODOO KILL    New York, Belmont Tower Books. Paper back novel in good condition. Novel. American Ambassador's daughter disappears in Haiti and Voodoo is deeply involved in this mystery.
  • $6.00
  
  
•    GRANDHIVA: AU MESEE DU QUAI BRANTY   revue d'anthropologie et de museologie. No 1 nouvelle serie, 2005. Virtually the entire 271 pages of this very heavy journal is about Haiti. Contents:
  
  
  • Etudes et essais
    • 5 Des comparables dans le champ du politique.
    • Entre nous ethnologues et historiens
    • La France et Haiti le mythe et la realite, suivi d'un entretien de Jean Luc Bonniaol
  • Dossier: Haiti % L'Anthropologie
    • Cheminemnent anthropologique en Haiti
    • Liberer le double, la beaute sera convulsive a propos d’une collection d’art vodou
    • La creation plastique et le toumnant ethnologique en Haiti
    • Antenor Firmnin and Haiti’s contribution to anthropology
    • Anthropologic, politique et engagement social l’experience du Bureau d’ethnologie d’Haiti
    • Haiti and the anthropological imagination
    • Le statut du vodou et l’histoire de l'anthropologie
    • Prohibition, persecution, performance: anthropology and the penalization of vodou in mid-20th century
    • D'une ile a l’autre: Alfred Metraux en Haiti
    • Triste terrain de jeu: a propos de ‘adoption internationale
  • Documents et matérlaux
    • rendez-vous manque avec le vodou
    • Sacrifice d’un taureau
    • "Tresors de veillees": les contes haitiens recueillis par Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain
    • "Croyances religieuses populaires en Haiti" radio conference suivie de deux lettres, recueillies et présentées par Christine Laurière
    • "Mes anlis les paysans de Marbial" article inedit, suivi d’une lettre a Benoit Levi, recueillis et présentés par C. Lauriére
  • 26 Chronique scientifique
    • Jacques Rournain, "Ouvres completes" (Gaetano Ciarcia)
    • Madison Smartt Bell, "Le Soulevement des ames, et Le Maître des carrefours" (Nicolas Menut)
    • Laënnec Hurbon, "Religions et lien social: l’Eglise et l’Etat moderne en Haiti (Rose-Mie Leonard)
    • "Outre-Mers," 2003, 340-341: "Haiti, premiere Republique noire (Colette Pratt)
    • "Nostalgie du neolithique. De Lausanne a Los Lomitas. Documents sur Alfred Met raux ethnologue," ed par Alain Monnier (Christine Laurière)
  8.5x11 book using heavy paper, slick style.
  • $55.00

• Green, K. (1989).    NIGHT ANGEL   New York, Delacorte Press. Not set in Haiti, but when a 1960s college friend dies in California, this woman goes back there to figure the meaning of all this. The dust jacket of this novel indicates: "Amid Haitian hexes, lost love and flying bullets, Maggie struggles to sift through clues and find her answers." Hard bound in original dust jacket, fine condition.
  • $5.00
  
  
• Hanly, E. (1997). A SHAMAN'S STORY.    A SHAMAN'S STORY   New Age Magazine. Disbound article, plus cover and contents pages. Article is pages 53-57. Color photo and story of Haiti's famous Max Beuvoir. $1.25 postage.
  • $3.00
  
  
• Harner, R. (1963).    TI-FAM: WITCH DOCTOR'S DAUGHTER   . Grand Rapids, Michigan, Child Evangelism Fellowship Press. This is an especially large book. It is about 10 x 13 inches and contains 5 missionary stories meant to be shown with flash cards, but the cards are not with the book now, but the full stories are there. It is worn, so was much used at one time. Quite an unusual item.
  • $6.00
  
  
  
• Hurston, Zora Neale    TELL MY HORSE: VOODOO AND LIFE IN HAITI AND JAMAICA    New York: Harper Perennial, 1990. Very fine condition paper bound book.
  • $6.00

• Jaffe, N. (1997).    A VOICE FOR THE PEOPLE: THE LIFE AND WORK OF HAROLD COURLANDER   New York, Henry Holt and Company. A biography of the life and work of one of the finest anthropologists to work in Haiti. Courlander is author of many excellent books on Haiti and this book tells his story. Hard bound in dust jacket like new. 176 pages.
  • $15.00
  
  
• Jahn, J. (1961).    MUNTU: THE NEW AFRICAN CULTURE   New York, Grove Press. Translation by Marjorie Grene, all 16 b/w plates + maps. 269 pages; Plunging the reader into different examples of encounters between Christian and African culture, includes African art, religion, history and literature, the dance, surrealism and philosophy in his survey + descriptions of Voodoo and áñingos ceremonies in Haiti and Cuba. Book is hard bound and in original dust jacket in fine conditon.
  • $21.00
  
  
• Bedford-Jones, H. (1932).    DRUMS OF DAMBALA   New York, Covici-Friede Publisher. First edition and signed by the author. Good condition. Novel set in the Haitian Revolution and Toussaint is an important character. 295 pages.
  • $52.00
  
  
• Jordan, M. (1993).    ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE GODS: OVER 2,500 DEITIES OF THE WORLD   New York, Facts on File, Inc. Large and heavy hard bound book. (7.5x10 inches). 337 pages. A bit dingy. Dust jacket good. Basic condition is good +. Text is fine.
  • $7.00
  
  
• Jordan, W. C.    VOODOO MEDICINE    I have no idea in the world of the source. This is xerox copy of an article from a volume of essays and is pages 716 through 738, 22 pages with foot notes and a short index. It seems to have a good deal to do with Haiti.
  • $6.00
  
  
• Kosloff, M. (1964).    QUEEN OF EVIL    After Hours Book. This is an astonishing find. This is a 1964 pornographic novel. It would hardly measure up to much pop fiction today. A lurid cartoon cover even has three women with mainly covered breasts! It is set in Haiti. The inside cover advertises: Haiti, drums, sex and Damballa. Very good condition, but yellowing pages. Obvious very rare.
  • $26.00
  
  
• Kurlansky, M. (1996)   VOODOO HEART   . Travel Holiday Vol 179, (No. 9): pages. 70-74. Disbound article and the cover of this large magazine. Lovely color photos as well. $1.00 postage.
  • $2.00
  
  
• Laguerre, M. (1986).    POLITICS AND VOODOO STILL A POTENT COMBINATION IN HAITI    The Wall Street Journal, April, 1986. This is a single page story, but four long columns. Laguerre makes a strong case that most resistance in Haiti can be traced to Voodoo. The article is disbound from the newspaper, and yellowed, but text is fine. $1.00 postage is all that's needed.
  • $4.00
  
  
• Laguerre, M. (1989).    VOODOO AND POLITICS IN HAITI    New York, St. Martin's Press. 162 pages. An analysis of the interplay between the Voodoo religion and the complexity of Haitian politics from the colonial period to the post Papa Doc and Baby Doc Duvalier era. The author attempts to reveal the strategic role played by Voodoo ideology and religious leaders during the Haitian Revolution. NOTES, REFERENCES, INDEX. Quite scarce. Hard bound in very fine condition.
  • $89.00
  
  
• Laguerre, M. S. (1979).    ETUDES SUR LE VODOU HAITIEN: BIBLIOGRAPHIE ANALYTIQUE   Fonds St-Jacques, Centre de recherches caribes. Lovely 52 page book, attractive! Books and articles commented upon are arranged in topics, ie. general studies, history, syncretism etc. Each book has a generous paragraph of analysis. About 3 per page. Very rare item. Book is soft cover and in fine condtion.
  • $47.00
  
  
• Lewis, I. M. (1971).    ECSTATIC RELIGION: A STUDY OF SHAMANISM AND SPIRIT POSSESSION   London, Routledge. About 15 pages are on Haiti. Book is very fine soft cover.
  • $7.00
  
  
• Lindroth, J. (1996)   IMAGES OF SUBVERSION: ISHMAEL REED AND THE HOODOO TRICKSTER   African American Review: Vol 30, (no 2): 185-197. 12 page xerox copy of this article. $1.25 postage would do.
  • $3.00
  
  
• Lynley, E. (1990).    SONG OF THE BAYOU   New York, Onyx Publishers An historical romance set in Louisiana just before the Civil War. Americans, new comers, have a leader who is trying to force Cajuns out to get their land. One of the slaves is a mambo from San Domingue and with black magic and zombie powders ends up saving the day for the good folks. The time line is off. This young and beautiful household slave came from San Domingue. Well, at minimum she'd have to be in her mid to late 50s. But, fun novel nonetheless. Very quick read. BC, 1999
  • $7.00
  
  
• Madsen, D. (1994).    VODOUN   New York, William Morrow and Company, Inc. "Against his will, Falco becomes a reporter again, investigativne the disappearance of Jean-Mars Baptiste, a firebrand Haitian politician. Ray's search propels him into the devios world of Haitian exile politics whose inhabitants live in a negarious shadowland..... Falco's investigations stretch from the revolution of 1793 to the current political upheaval. Against the surreal backdrop of elections in which candidates court the voodoo vote... and ... only voodoo can save him." A novel of 349 pages. Large hardbound first edition in original dust jacket, the book is like new.
  • $18.00
  
  
• Mahr, M. D. (2001).    THE WRATH OF ERZULIE   226 page unpublished novel. It is spiral bound, soft cover. There are a number of b/w photos sprinkled in the book and a colorful Hyppolite on the cover. Life new.
  • $15.00
  
  
• Thoby-Marcelin, Philippe and Pierre Marcelin.     ALL MEN ARE MAD.     Novel by the famous brothers.
  • Nice condition hardbound in dust jacket $35.00.
  • Nice condition hardbound without dust jacket $28.00.

• Thoby-Marcelin, Philippe and Pierre Marceline.     THE BEAST OF THE HAITIAN HILLS.     Marvelous novel of Voodoo and folk customs in the 1940s in Haiti.
  • Very scarce hard bound with dust jacket. $31.00
  • Like-new paper bound. $14.00.

• Thoby-Marcelin, Philippe and Pierre Marcelin.    CANAPE-VERT.     Prize winning novel second Latin American contest.
  • 1944 edition worn, but in good condition. $30.00.

• Thoby-Marcelin, Philippe and Pierre Marcelin. THE PENCIL OF GOD.
  • Nice condition in good dust jacket. $37.00.
  • Good condition book in tattered dust jacket $33.00
  • Good condition book with no dust jacket $30.00

• Marlowe, Derek   NIGHTSHADE    New York: The Viking Press, 1976. A novel. "... But amid the Victorian balconies of the Hotel Dessalines, in the hubbub of the Iron Market, and along the shores of Ibo Beach the vague unsettling forces take more human shape.... Derek Marlow weave a novel of suspense and terror... and are brought terrifingly to the surface on the fertile soil of Haitian mysticism." Book is hard bound in original dust jacket and in fine condition.
  • $16.00
  
  
• Matranga, F. C. (1979).    SUMMER MAGIC   New York, Dell Publishing. Romance paper back. "Kathy Miller was thrilled at the prospect of a summer in exotic Haiti, island of mystery and magic." After some romantic tangles there she wonders "Could a strange voodoo spell trnsform their romantic triangle..." Book is in fine condition.
  • $5.00
  
  
• McAlister, Elizabeth (2002).    RARA: VODOU, POWER. AND PERFORMANCE IN HAITI AND ITS DIASPORA   Berkeley, Ca., University of California Press. 9" x 6". INCLUDES A 24-track CD. ix, 259 pages. Few black & white photographs. Book and CD are like new.
  • $24.00
  
  
• McIntee, D. A. (1993).    WHITE DARKNESS    London, Virgin Publishing Limited. When science fiction and Voodoo meet. The space ship Tardis lands in Haiti in the early years of the First World War. ... plot involving voodoo, violent death, Zombies and German spies..." Paperback. 245 page Very good condition.
  • $5.00
  
  
• Metraux, Alfred (1953)    MEDICINE ET VODOU EN HAITI   Ethnologie Vol X, (no 1), pages 29-62 (33 pages). Long article in French. Xerox copy only.
  • $7.00
  
  
• Metraux, Alfred.     VOODOO IN HAITI.     Classic book on the Haitian religion.
  • Hard bound, 1959 edition in original dust jacket. Very fine. $28.00
  • Nice condition paperback. $17.00

• Metraux, Alfred.     BLACK PEASANTS AND VOODOO     N. Y.: Universe Books, 1960. First Edition. Hardbound,large 4to, VG+ in original and colorful dust jacket. An important ethnographic and photo book, with interesting photos by Verger (L). profusely illus. with both color and black/white plates,(mainly b/w). 8.5x11 inches, 110 + pages.
  • $117.00

• Mikell, Gwendolyn    WHEN HORSES TALK: REFLECTIONS ON ZORA NEALE HURSTON'S HAITIAN ANTHROPOLOGY   Phylon Magazine. Undated xerox copy of article. pages 218-230. 22 pages. $1.00 postage will be sufficient.
  • $2.50
  
  
• Mulrain, George MacDonald    THEOLOGY IN FOLK CULTURE: THE THEOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HAITIAN FOLK RELIGION     Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Verlag Peter Lang, 1984. Thick paperbound book in very good condition. An extremely hard volume to find.
  • $450.00

• Murphy, Joseph M. (1993).    SANTERIA AFRICAN SPIRITS IN AMERICA   Boston, Beacon Press. 189 page book on the religion so popular in Cuba and closely related to Haitian Voodoo. Very long bibliograhy, index and copious notes. Book is paper bound and in fine condition.
  • $9.00
  
  
• Murray, G. F. (1980)   POPULATION PRESSURE: LAND TENURE, AND VOODOO: THE ECONOMICS OF HAITIAN PEASANT RITUAL   From Beyond The Myths of Culture: Essays in Cultural Materialism. This is a 26 page xerox article from a book of essays.
  • $3.00
  
  
• Murray, G. F. (1985)   BON-DIEU AND THE RITES OF PASSAGE IN RURAL HAITI: STRUCTURAL DETERMINANTS OF POSTCOLONIAL THEOLOGY AND RITUAL   From: The Catholic Church and Religions in Latin America. This is a xerox copy of a long study -- 43 pages.
  • $4.50
  
  
• Newell, W. W. (1889)    REPORTS OF VOODOO WORSHIP IN HAYTI AND LOUISIANA   Journal of American Folk-Lore Vol II, # IV, pages 41-46. I am offering the whole journal of that issue. The soft color is tanned with age, but the pages inside are lighter. Nice condition for something 100+ years old.
  • $25.00
  
  
• Novanyon, M. A. I. (1990).    DIVINE MESSAGE OF THE LOAS   Philadelphia, Le Peristyle Haitian Sanctuary, Inc. Hard bound book in fine condition. 108 pages. The Mambo who wrote this book was born in the U.S. but did her Voodoo study in Haiti. The introduction is written by hunsi George Ware. He writes: "This is not a book about Voodoo. We will leave that to anthoropoligy, ethnology, to history. This is a book about the messages of Loas as received from or through Mmman [the author]."
  • $18.00
  
  
• Orem, W. (1999).    ZOMBI, YOU MY LOVE   Woodside, CA, La Questa Press. Paper bound, like new. 222 pages. Collection of short stories. The background is Haiti. Herbert Gold says: "Sympathetic, detailed, and accurate observations of the lives of the Haitian peasnatry."
  • $12.00
  
  
• Pelton, R. W. (1972).    THE COMPLETE BOOK OF VOODOO   New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons. Hard bound book in original dust jacket in fine condition, 254 pages. Includes long glossary of terms and extensive bibliography. "Accompaning the fascinating how-to information on voodoo ceremonies, materials and legends is an engrossing history of the art with portraits of notorius practitionsers."
  • $22.00
  
  
• Planson, Claude (1974).    VAUDOU: UN INITIE PARLE   . Paris, Jean Dullis Editeur. 1975, 356 pages. Haïti et le vaudou; la cérémonie; cosmogonie; le hounfor, les vévé, l'enseignement, la mambo, la thérapeute, la magicienne; les loa, les sacrifices, la possession, l'initiation; les zobops ou les hommes volants; glossaire du vaudou. Large paperbound book in very good condition.
  • $25.00
  
  
  
• Polk, Patrick Arthur (1997).    HAITIAN VODOU FLAGS    Jackson, Miss., University Press of Mississippi. Hard bound 8 x 8 square book. Flag of St. Jacques on cover. 72 page book filled with color prints of Vodou flags, and lots of text on the subject. Like new.
  • $20.00
  
  
• Polk, Richard (1963).    STRANGE HUNGERS   USA, First Niter Book. Classic piece of S-M porn from the early 1960s. Two notorious S-M plotters "... shudder in the forbidden jungles of Haiti where a condemned voodoo chief and maiden decide to sacrifice a beautiful girl in an ancient fertility rite..." Good condition paper back. 160 pages.
  • $25.00
  
  
• Price Mars, D. L. (1981).    ETHNODRAMA: THE DRAMATIC RELIGION IN HAITI   Quilt 1, Ishmael Reed and Al Young
  • $.00
  
  
• Price-Mars    SO SPOKE THE UNCLE    Washington, DC: Three Continents Press, 1983. The book is hard bound and like new. However, the previous owner took the (mint condition) dust jacket, cut it down the middle long-ways and scotch-taped the dust jacket to the back of the book cover and facing (blank) page. A very scarce book.
  • $110.00

• Quinn, S. (1930)   DRUMS OF DAMBALLA   Weird Tales Vol XV, #(3): March 1930, pages 302-325. This is one of the famous "pulp magazines" and a nice condition one like this is rather rare. Overall good condition, some damage to the spine, and the very colorful cover (which features the Drums of Damballa story with a woman with a snake wrapped around her) is loose from the book, but in good condition. Text is somewhat yellow, otherwise fine. Story is set in rural Haiti.
  • $59.00
  
  
• Ravenscroft, Kent, Jr. (1962).    SPIRIT POSSESSION IN HAITI: A TENTATIVE THEORETICAL ANALYSIS   UNPUBLISHED, bound thesis 8.5x11 inches, very heavy since print is only on one side of page, but that's an actual 315 pages of text. Good condition. Will require extra postage
  • $61.00
  
  
• Reed, Ishmael.     MUMBO JUMBO.    HooDoo novel. Private Eyes LaBas and Black Herman investigate questions. Touches on all forms of Voodoo influences. Nice paperback.
  • $15.00.

• Rhodes, Jewell Parker    VOODOO DREAMS: A NOVEL OF MARIE LAUVEAU.    Picador, 1995. Paperback. Very nice condition. 433 pages. New Orleans in the mid-nineteenth century is a city overflowing with white aristos, black creoles, and African slaves, a city that pulses with crowds, with commerce, and with the power and spectacle of the voodoo religion. At the center of the ritual is Marie Laveau, the notorious voodooienne, worshipped and feared by blacks and whites alike. Marie's followers claimed that she walked on water and sucked poison from a snake's jowls, that she raised the dead and murdered two men. Voodoo Dreams is the spellbinding story of the woman behind the legend. Raised by her Grandmere in the Louisiana bayou, Marie ventures to New Orleans and begins a journey of self-discovery, hoping to find her lost Maman and understand the visions that haunt her dreams. Instead, she runs headlong into the brutality of slavery and oppression, and into the arms of John, the voodoo doctor who promises to teach her what Grandmere will not. As she falls under his spell, John sweeps Marie into a world of voodoo ceremonies, of drama and manipulation, and of sometimes terrifying power. A mesmerizing combination of history and storytelling, Voodoo Dreams marks the debut of an important new voice in fiction.
  • $7.00.

• Rice, Anne (2000)    MERRICK   New York, Random House, Inc. Vampire story from the famous master of that genre. Set in New Orleans and outward... Book is hard bound in dust jacket, like new.
  • $7.00
  
  
• Ridgeway, James and Jean Jean-Pierre (1998)   HEARTBEATS OF VODOU   Natural History Vol.107, (No. 10). 8 page article, xerox copy. Some b/w photos, again, in xerox copy.
  • $2.00
  
  
• Rigaud, Milo. SECRETS OF VOODOO. 214 pages.
  • Very nice hard bound in original dust jacket. $22.00.
  • Good condition paper bound. 1971. $13.00.

• Rigaud, Odette M. (1972).    AH HAITI, GLIMPSES OF VOODOO   Roxbury, Mass, National Center of Afro-American Artists. 9x9 soft cover art book on slick paper. About 1/2 text and 1/2 b/w photos of rural Voodoo. Very nice photos. Book in very good condition.
  • $25.00
  
  
• Rochat, Joyce (1959).    CURSE OF THE VOODOO GODS   Nashville, Tenn, Southern Publishing Association. Youth novel. "This is the story of Little Treasure, who was born into a Haitian world of drumming, chanting, dancing voodoo worshipers." This is the story of his conversion. Hard cover in original dust jacket. Both show moderate wear and some tears on bottom and top parts of the dust jacket.
  • $11.00
  
  
• Rodman, Seldon and Carole Cleaver. SPIRITS OF THE NIGHT. Excellent study of Haitian Voodoo religion.
  • Good condition paperbound. $19.00.

• Roscoe, Theodore (1935).    MURDER ON THE WAY   Mercer Island, WA, Starmount House Hard bound original 1935 novel of this well-know author of the zombie genre of story. Set in Haiti. "An old colonial chateau in Morne Nori, Massif du Nord, Haiti, is the scene of the most blood-curdling murders in the history of the islands. Who was the nurderer -- male, beast or some supernatural being?" This is Rosoe's first novel. 279 pages. Good condition
  • $60.00
  
  
• Roscoe, T. (1989).    GRAVE MUST BE DEEP   Mercer Island, WA, Starmount House. Paper bound re-print of a 1930s novel. Zombies in Haiti. 140 pages. Good condition
  • $8.00
  
  
• Roscoe, T. (1989).    Z IS FOR ZOMBIE    Mercer Island, WA, Starmont House, INc. Paper bound re-print of a 1930s novel. Zombies in Haiti. 119 pages. Good condition
  • $8.00
  
  
• Rotberg, Robert    VODUN AND THE POLITICS OF HAITI   From: The African Diaspora: Interpretive Essays. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press, 1976. This is an essay of 23 pages. Xerox copy only.
  • $3.50
  
  
• Rouzier, A. (1984).    LA VENGEANCE DES "LOAS"     Port-au-Prince, Imp. La Phalange. A novel. 223 pages. Plastic paper cover, book clean and neat.
  • $18.00
  
  
  
• Saint, Assotto.    SPELLS OF A VOODOO DOLL     New York: Masquerade Books, 1996. "A fierce, spellbinding collection of the poetry, lyrics, essays and performances texts of Assotto Saint -- one of the most important voices in the renaissance of black gay writing." Paperbound in very good condition.
  • $7.00

• Sapir, Richard and Warren Murphy (1976).    VOODOO DIE: THE DESTROYER   Los Angeles, Pinnacle Books. Good condition paperback novel. Fictional Caribbean island is site for a novel of espionage and international mahem, and Voodoo.
  • $5.00
  
  
• Scalota, S. (1999).    SALUTING THE SPIRITS: VODOU FLAGS OF HAITI   . Hamilton, NY, The Picker Art Gallery. Stapled pictorial wraps 8pp. 8 color plates. Essay by Scalora. Checklist. Colorful exhibition catalogue with 1/2 dozen color photos.
  • $14.00
  
  
• Siegel, J. E. (1973).    VAL LEWTON: THE REALITY OF TERROR   New York, The Viking Press. Book that analyzes horror movies and does some that touch on the zombie and Voodoo themes. Paper bound in good condition. 176 pages.
  • $6.00
  
  
• Simpson, George Eaton    BLACK RELIGIONS OF THE CARIBBEAN   New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. Hardbound book in original dust jacket. Good condition. 409 pages. Overview of the area's religions in various essays. No specifically on Haiti.
  • $17.00
  
  
• St. Jean, S. (1972).    NAIFS D'HAITI ET VAUDOU   . Port-au-Prince, Imprimerie des Antilles. 52 page booklet about 5x8 inches. Text on the topic (in French) and some rather poor quality b/w images to reinforce the text. Decent on the topic.
  • $10.00
  
  
• Taylor, A. (1948).    BLACK JADE    Toronto, Collins. "The story incudes the Haitian Rebellion and against this savage background there unfolds a tale of love and lust, of cruelty and wantonness and those other virtues and vices which made up that dissolute profligacy..." Paperback book from 1948.
  • $7.00
  
  
• Troupe, Q.    VOODOO AND SOUL: THE TRUE SOURCES OF HAITIAN ART   Fanfare Magazine. Discount and colorful article. 10 pages filled with color photos and text. Also have a xerox copy with b/w copies of the photos.
  • disbound essay $7.00
  • Xerox copy: $3.00
  
  
• Turner, A. (1973).    VOODOO QUEEN    London, Nel Paperback. :One man -- Toussaint l'Ouverture, the Black Emperor -- towered avove the ruins of San Domingo, but even his dreams of peace were crushed by the hell of prison. The fate of the island fell into the hands of Delie, the young and beautiful Voodoo Queen who trod the dangerous path of the dead and the damned." Book in used but good condition.
  • $6.00
  
  
• Wheatley, D. (1978).    STRANGE CONFLICT   Tiptree, Essex, England, The Anchor Press. WWII story of Haitian voodooists working for the Nazis!!! Paperback in good condition.
  • $5.00
  
  
• Wilentz, A. (1987)    VOODOO IN HAITI TODAY   Grandstreet Vol 6, (no 2): 105-123. Photographs by Maggie Steber. Lots of other things in this 224 page issue of the journal. Like new.
  • $16.00
  
  
• Wilkerson, D. (1967).    I'M NOT MAD AT GOD   Westwood, NJ, Fleming H. Revell Company. Small hard bound book by a fundamentalist attacking Haitian Voodoo among other enemies. Fine condition book in dust jacket.
  • $7.00
  
  
• Williams, Samuel H. VOODOO ROADS. 1949 book published in Germany, but in English. A story of the strong challenge Haitian Voodoo makes to Christianity, or a way of looking at Christianity in a different light in response to the challenge of Voodoo.
  • In dustjacket, nice condition. $30.00.

• Williams, Sheldon. VOODOO AND THE ART OF HAITI. 109 page paper back from the 1960s which has text on Haitian art, plus a large number of black and white reproductions and some color plates.
  • Like new. $35.00.

• Wyllie, J. (1981).    THE LONG DARK NIGHT OF BARON SAMEDI   New York, Doubleday and Co., Inc. Much of the action of this novel is set on a fictional island which greatly resembles Haiti. It's a mystery story. We find of the victim "...half-concealed under his naked body were the mysterious signs of a voodoo cult..." The victim was further the chief of the President's personal police. Hard bound in the original dust jacket and in good condition. Usual marking of an ex-library book.
  • $7.00
  
  

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