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| FRASER, FITZROY, Wounds in the Flesh. London: Hutchinson/New Authors Limited, (1962). First Edition. The author's first novel. Near fine in a very good, rubbed dust jacket with a short edge tear. With a bookstore sticker from a Barbados bookstore on the front pastedown. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 49.75 | £UK 45.25 | JP¥ 6450] Book number: 018556 Click here to order or inquire at Ken Lopez - Bookseller. | |
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| GLISSANT, EDOUARD, The Ripening. NY: George Braziller, 1959. First Edition. The first American edition. Bookplate of Barbara Howes and William Jay Smith front pastedown; erasure front flyleaf; near fine in a very good, spine-tanned dust jacket with modest edge wear. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 49.75 | £UK 45.25 | JP¥ 6450] Book number: 018557 Click here to order or inquire at Ken Lopez - Bookseller. | |
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| SAINT AUDE, MAGLOIRE, Veille. (Port-au-Prince): (Imprimerie Renelle), (1956). First Edition. A small, hand-printed volume with a cover illustration and frontispiece by Milo Rigaud. With a full page inscription by the author to Barbara Howes in 1964 and additionally signed by the author on the cover. Stitching absent; staining and creasing to covers; a good copy in wrappers, with handmade wraparound band addressed to the recipient in the author's hand. An excellent inscription and literary association. USD 750.00 [Appr.: EURO 497.5 | £UK 452.5 | JP¥ 64496] Book number: 018561 Click here to order or inquire at Ken Lopez - Bookseller. | |
| SELVON, SAMUEL, Turn Again Tiger. NY: St. Martin's, (1959). First Edition. Bookplate of Howes and Smith front pastedown; foxing to endpages; fading to spine cloth; very good in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2150] Book number: 018563 Click here to order or inquire at Ken Lopez - Bookseller. | ||
| SELVON, SAMUEL, Ways of Sunlight. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1961. Second printing of a collection of stories first published in 1959. Howes/Smith bookplate front pastedown; several pencilled marks in text; foxing to page edge and endpages; very good in a near fine, spine-sunned dust jacket. USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 30 | £UK 27.25 | JP¥ 3870] Book number: 018564 Click here to order or inquire at Ken Lopez - Bookseller. | ||
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| THOBY-MARCELIN, PHILIPPE AND MARCELIN, PIERRE, The Beast of the Haitian Hills. NY: Rinehart & Co. (1946). First Edition. Probably their most well-known book. Inscribed by Thoby-Marcelin to Barbara Howes in 1971, with the Howes/Smith bookplate front pastedown. Fine in a very near fine, spine-dulled dust jacket with several small edge tears. A very nice copy of this book, and very scarce signed. USD 450.00 [Appr.: EURO 298.5 | £UK 271.5 | JP¥ 38697] Book number: 018566 Click here to order or inquire at Ken Lopez - Bookseller. | |
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| THOBY-MARCELIN, PHILIPPE AND MARCELIN, PIERRE, Canape-Vert. NY: Farrar & Rinehart, (1944). First Edition. A novel of Haiti by these two Haitian brothers, which won a prize in the Second Latin American literature contest sponsored by Farrar & Rinehart. With the Howes/Smith bookplate on the front pastedown, and inscribed by Thoby-Marcelin to Barbara Howes in 1971. Fine in a good, price-clipped dust jacket threatening to split at the flap folds. An important and uncommon book, and especially scarce signed. USD 450.00 [Appr.: EURO 298.5 | £UK 271.5 | JP¥ 38697] Book number: 018565 Click here to order or inquire at Ken Lopez - Bookseller. | |
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| THOBY-MARCELIN, PHILIPPE AND MARCELIN, PIERRE, The Pencil of God. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1951. First Edition. Inscribed by Thoby-Marcelin in 1971. Howes/Smith bookplate front pastedown, causing offsetting to flyleaf at inscription. Howes' pencilled markings in text; spine cloth faded; very good in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with several small edge chips. Introduction by Edmund Wilson. USD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 99.5 | £UK 90.5 | JP¥ 12899] Book number: 018567 Click here to order or inquire at Ken Lopez - Bookseller. |
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