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The Serpent and The Rainbow
by Davis Wade
In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis -- people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of rituals and celebrations, Davis penetrated the vodoun mystique deeply enough to place zombification in its proper context within vodoun culture. In the course of his investigation, Davis came to realize that the story of vodoun is the history of Haiti --... Read more about this item
Haiti Books & Ephemera
The Rainy Season. Haiti since Duvalier
by Wilentz, Amy
London: Jonathan Cape. 1989. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. 427 pages. A series of personal journeys interwoven with scenes from the past. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£13.23
The French Colonial Question 1789-1791
by Mitchell Benett Garrett (1881-1959)
Ann Arbor, Michigan: George Wahr, Publisher, 1916. First Edition. iv, [1], 167pp. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titling; without dust jacket, if issued. A near fine copy. A study of the issues of politics, slavery, and slave insurrections in the French colonies in the West Indies. Includes much on Saint-Domingue (today Haiti) and Santo Domingo (today the Dominican Republic); French politician, Antoine Pierre Joseph Marie Barnave (1761-1793); and the "Mulatto Question." Based on the author's 1910...
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£40.48
Haiti Emergency Relief Fund
Berkeley: the Fund, 2011. 15p., glossy stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, photo illustrations, very good condition. Published after the January earthquake, highlights efforts to rebuild and to improve civil society in Haiti.
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£9.71
Haiti Shippers Guide
by Rigdon, John C
Powder Springs, GA: Eastern Digital Resources, 2010. Paperback. New. Powder Springs, GA: Eastern Digital Resources, 2010. New. Many organizations are currently delivering most of their supplies to Haiti in suitcases aboard flights. This is very inefficient and costly when compared to other methods. This manual is designed to help you cut through the terminology and bureaucracy and ultimately to save you money in shipping items to Haiti and in receiving items from Haiti. The Haiti Shippers Guide is...
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£20.24
Caraibes en Fleurs: poémes. Collection du cent-cinquantenaire de l'independance nationale
by Charles, Paul-Emile
Port-au-Prince: Impr. de l'Etat, 1954. Paperback. 102p., wraps, 5x7.25 inches, wraps worn and toned else very good condition. Text in French. Bibliothèque Haitienne. Poems on the anniversary of Haitian independence.
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£101.19
The Magic Dog and other stories
by Benítez-Rojo, Antonio, selection, edition, introduction by Frank Janney
Hanover NH: Ediciones del Norte, 1990. Paperback. xiii, 261p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. The Cuban American author was a former director of the Center for Caribbean Studies at Casa de las Américas. He defected in 1980.
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£9.71
Description Topographique, Physique, Civile, Politique Et Historique De La Partie Francaise Aise De L'isle Saint-domingue : Avec Des Observations Generales Sur Sa Population, Sur Le Caractere & Les Moeurs De Ses Divers Habitans ; Sur Son Climat, Sa Cultur
by Moreau de Saint-Méry, M. L. E. (Médéric Louis Elie), 1750-1819
L Guerin & Theodore Morgand. Good with no dust jacket. 1875. Second Edition. Hardcover. tall 8vo 9" - 10" t; xxxi, 446; 466 pages; Description topographique, physique, civile, politique et historique de la partie francaise Aise de l'isle Saint-Domingue : Avec des observations generales sur sa population, sur le caractere & les moeurs de ses divers habitans ; sur son climat, sa culture... Accompagne Es des de Tails les plus propres a Faire connaitre l'e Tat de cette colonie...
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£1,546.95
Life Beyond Borders
by Tonico, Jean-Erve
[Union City, GA]: Forward Press, 2008. 255p., wraps, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, lightly worn else very good first edition. Signed and inscribed by Tonico on the title page. Autobiographical novel by the Haitian-American immigrant.
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£16.19
The Serpent and the Rainbow : A Harvard Scientist Uncovers the Startling Truth About the Secret World of Haitian Voodoo and Zombies
by Wade Davis
Grand Central Publishing, 1987. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£5.93
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The Diplomatic Relations of the United States with Haiti 1776-1891. [Inscribed Copy]
by Rayford W. Logan
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941. 516 pages. First edition. Publisher's red cloth, without dust jacket. A near fine copy. Warmly inscribed by the author to James Phinney Baxter III, historian, academic, Pulitzer Prize-winner for history. An exhaustive study of this topic; "This is the only volume covering intensively the period from 1776 to 1891 and its attempt to analyze the relations more comprehensively than does any other monograph..." (Preface) The author, Rayford Whittingham...
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£283.32
Haiti and its Regeneration by the United States
by National Geographic Society Staff
Washington D. C.: National Geographic. Very Good. 1920. Ephemera. B&W Photographs; This is a DISBOUND article from National Geographic Magazine. This is the actual article, not a photocopy. Eight pages of text with text on both verso & recto of each page. Article also includes ten black & white photographs (photographs attributed to the U. S. Marine Corps, along with several unattributed photographs). Text pages are clean, bright and without chips, tears, discoloration or wear....
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£12.14
Histoire de L'Isle Espanole ou de S. Domingue
by CHARLEVOIX, Pierre-Francois-Xavier de
Paris: Didot, 1730. First Edition. hardcover. very good. Ecrite particulierement sur des Memoires Manuscrits du P. Jean-Baptiste le Pers, Jesuite, Missionnaire a Saint Domingue, & sur les Pieces Originales, qui se conservent au Depot de la Marine. 14 engraved plates (most folding maps), vignettes. 2 volumes, small square 4to, 1/2 calf, ornately gilt spine (rubbed); some pages darkened, worming, few inked markings. Paris: Francois Didot, 1730. Very good.<br/> <br/> Recounts the...
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£2,428.50
AMERIQUE EQUATORIALE; SON HISTOIRE PITTORESQUE ET POLITIQUE; SA GEOGRAPHIE ET SES RICHESSES NATURELLES; SON ETAT PRESENT ET SON AVENIR.
by Don Enrique Vte Onffroy De Thoron
Paris: Renouard. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1866. Hardcover. Central America; Caribbean; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xii, 476 pages; Amerique Equatoriale; son histoire pittoresque et politique; sa geographie et ses richesses naturelles; son etat present et son avenir. . French text. [EQUATORIAL AMERICA: ITS COLORFUL HISTORY AND ITS POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY AND NATURAL RESOURCES ...] Rubber stamp to title, triangular excision to unprinted area of title. Occasional light pencil marginalia, lacking...
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£237.95
THE KINGDOM OF THIS WORLD
by CARPENTIER, Alejo
[New York]: Limited Editions Club, (1987). Hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase. A beautiful book. Roberto Juarez. Folio (11" x 15") handsewn and bound in black Oasis goatskin on the spine and fore-edge with burgundy Japanese cloth on the boards. Introduction by John Hersey and illustrated with 7 ORIGINAL ETCHINGS by Roberto Juarez, his first work in this medium, printed on handmade paper. One of 750 numbered copies of this Cuban author's classic novel about Haiti. SIGNED by Hersey and Juarez on the...
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£252.97
TERRE EN GESINE; ROMAN PAYSAN.
by Gerard Duc
Port-au-prince: Unknown. Very Good with no dust jacket. [1954 ?.]. First Edition. Paperback. French Language; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 100 pages; In owner's plastic cover. Contents toned, no markings . Worldcat locates 2 copies. Duc was a frequently published author. .
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£79.29
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The Free Press [7 issues, partial run]
Somerville, MA: the newspaper, 1979. Newspaper. Seven issues of this folded tabloid-format activist newspaper, 8pps, published mostly monthly but sometimes every two months, community news, much on rent strikes, affirmative action, opposition to racist violence, etc., including coverage in Spanish, Portuguese, and French (for the local Haitian population). Toned wraps along folds and edges of paper, else in good condition. Issues include Aug, Oct, Dec for 1977, Mar,Oct, Nov for 1978 and Jan-Feb for 1979.
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£36.43
The Serpent and the Rainbow - an Astonishing Journey Into the Secret Society of Haitian Voodoo, Zombies and Magic
by Davis Wade
London: Collins, 1986. 1 cm closed tear to dj at spine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Occult.
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£15.00
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NACLA report on the Americas [5 issues]
New York: North American Congress on Latin America, 1987. Newsletter. Five issues of the bi-monthly magazine, a complete run for the year 1987. Issues present are Vol. 21 Nos. 1-6 (5/6 is a double issue). Various pagination, 7 x 10 inches, in glossy, stapled, illustrated wraps, some wear, Nos. 1, 2, and 4 with address labels on rear wraps, No. 3 with sticker shadow on rear wrap, else generally good condition. The NACLA Newsletter, which became the Latin America & Empire Report in the early 1970s, was...
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£32.38
West Indies
by MITCHELL, Samuel Augustus Sr
Philadelphia: H. N. Burroughs, 1846. unbound. Map. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Image measures 15.75" x 12.5".<br/> <br/> This map of the West Indies extends from the southern tip of Florida to the northern coast of South America, and from the western tip of Cuba to Barbados in the east. The index includes capitals, cities, and towns, labeled in a stylized manner that complements the region's scattered arrangement of islands. Above the title is a paragraph describing...
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£202.38
Contemporary Marxism No. 14: Dialectics of Democracy in Latin America
by Jonas, Susanne & Nancy Stein, editors, Eduardo Galeano, James Petras et al
San Francisco: Synthesis Publications / Institute for the Study of Labor and Economic Crisis, 1986. Paperback. v, 129p., wraps, very good first edition trade paperback journal in printed white wraps. Memorial for Rini Templeton, articles on Cuba, Haiti, Uruguay, Dominican Republic, Guatemala and more.
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£9.71
Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in Haiti (A Destinations Book)
by Gold, Herbert
Simon & Schuster. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($19.95 price intact). Published by Prentice Hall Press, 1991. Octavo. Blue cloth over light blue boards stamped in gold. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new with very light shelf wear. 303 pages. ISBN: 9780133723274. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING!...
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£16.19
The Caribbean; survival, struggle and sovereignty
by Sunshine, Catherine A
N. pl: EPICA, 1985. Oversized Paperback. 232p., 8.5x11 inches, Edgeworn pictorial wraps. Loss along lower edge of front cover. A critique of American policy in the Caribbean, emphasizing the Cuban and Grenadan alteratives.
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£17.81
The Rainy Season; Haiti Since Duvalier
by WILENTZ, Amy
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989. First. hardcover. fine/fine. 427pp. 8vo, 1/2 brown cloth, d.w. New York: Simon and Schuster, (1989). Fine<br/> <br/> Presentation copy from the author to Harry Belafonte.<br/> <br/>
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£60.71
The beast of the Haitian hills. Translated from the French La Bête du Masseau by Peter C. Rhodes
by Thoby-Marcelin, Philippe and Pierre Marcelin
New York: Rinehart & Company, 1946. Hardcover. 210p., first American edition with Rinehart logo on verso of title page, hardbound in 8x5 inch red-orange cloth boards titled in black and bronze. Crisp and clean, top edge tinted a dull green, lacks the dust jacket but is else in tip-top condition. Haitian authors.
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£12.14
The Pencil of God
by THOBY-MARCELIN, Philippe; MARCELIN, Pierre
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1951. Their second collaboration, inscribed by Thoby-Marcelin to Barbara Howes in 1971. Howes/Smith bookplate front pastedown, causing offsetting to flyleaf at inscription. Introduction by Edmund Wilson, with Howes' pencilled markings in the text of the introduction; spine cloth faded; very good in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with several small edge chips. Uncommon, especially signed. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. First Edition....
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£202.38
