African-Canadian Literature from Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB

(Toronto): M&S, (1999). First edition. Publisher's pictorial card covers with folding flaps, pp. 243. Signed: Austin Clarke / Bistro 99 / 8 November 1999 Tiny nick at head of spine, else near fine. .

Toronto: Exile Editions, 1992. First edition. Publisher's pictorial card covers, pp. 214. Inscribed: For Philip Fernandez with love / Austin Clarke / 19 October 1993. Fading to spine, else near fine. .

Toronto: Domestic Bliss, (1982). First edition.. Soft cover. Fine. 21.2 cm x 13.9 cm, stapled card covers, 16pp. Rear cover shows picture of Allen performing and gives her address, not found on later printings. Allen's first dub poetry collection. Allen was born in Jamaica, but has lived in Toronto for many years. Fine copy.

(Markham) Penguin Books, (1986). First edition. Publisher's pictorial card covers, pp. 225. "Penguin Short Fiction" series. . Signed by Clarke. Remainder stripe to bottom page edge, light edge wear to covers, else very good. .

Toronto: Exile Editions, 1993. First edition. Publisher's pictorial card covers, pp. 167. Inscribed: For Philip Fernandez with love / Austin Clarke / 11 June 1994. Near fine. .

Toronto Coach House Press, (1990). First edition. Card covers, pp. 51, [2]. Inscribed: For Philip / in sisterhood / Dionne Brand. Fine. .

(Toronto): Coach House Press, (1994). First edition. Octavo, card covers with folding flaps, pp. 183, (7). Inscribed: For Philip / one love / Dionne Brand 21/5/94. Minor wear to covers, else near fine. .

(Toronto): Alfred A. Knopf Canada, (2005). First edition. Octavo, red boards, pp. 319, (9). Inscribed: For Philip / one love / Dionne Brand. Fine in dust jacket. .

Toronto: Williams-Wallace, 1990. In original shrink wrap, with audio cassette recording of the same title. The text on the rear cover of the book describes Maart as a "Black South African feminist scholar-cum-activist". Shrink wrap has caused the covers to bow, price sticker on spine of book, else a very good, unused copy..

(Winnipeg): Turnstone Press, (1992). First edition. Trade paperback format, pp. 240. Inscribed by Hill in 1993. Wear to corner tips, bumped at heel. crease through spine. Very good..

Toronto: Domestic Bliss, (N.d). Reprint. 21.6 cm x 14 cm, stapled red card covers printed in black, pp. 16. Rear cover with advertisemnt for two other publications, which were published in 1983. Allen's first dub poetry collection. Allen was born in Jamaica, but has lived in Toronto for many years. A fine copy..

(Toronto): M(cClelland) & S(tewart, 1997). First edition. Inscribed by editor George Elliott Clarke and dated in 2002, and signed by Austin Clarke at his contribution. Also contains writings by Gerard Etienne, Claire Harris, Frederick Ward, Olive Senior, Pamela Mordecai, Althea Prince, M. Nourbese Philip, H. Nigel Thomas, Archibald J. Crail, Dionne Brand, Dany Laferriere, Cecil Foster, Makeda Silvera, Paul Tiyambe… Read more about this item

(Toronto): HarperCollins, (1998). Advance reading copy of the first edition. Wrappers, a touch of wear to head of spine, else a fine copy..

New York: Vantage Press, (1986). First edition. 21 cm x 14.5 cm, black cloth, pp. 234. A novel of surrogate motherhood. The author was born in Trinidad of East Indian parentage. "Final Sale" rubber-stamped in small type on front free endpaper, one corner slightly bumped, else near fine in somewhat used dust jacket, with several small tears, rubbing, a short… Read more about this item

(Toronto): Anansi, (1971). First edition, paper issue. Inscribed by Clarke in the year of publication. Clarke has been the recipient of the Toronto Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement (1992), the Martin Luther King Junior Award (1999), and the W.O. Mitchell Prize (1999). Trade paperback format, covers creased and rubbed, slight loss at head of spine, else good..

(Edmonton): NeWest Press, (200). First edition. mited Trade paperback format, pp. 189, [1], [2] publisher's ads. Trinidad born author who immigrated to Canada in 1971. This is his first novel. Cover with praise from Rachel Wyatt and Bill Gaston. Faint scratches to front cover, else very good..

(Toronto): Alfred A. Knopf Canada, (1999). First edition.. Hardcover. Near Fine. Signed by Brand. The author was born in the Caribbean, and lives in Toronto. She has won the Governor General's Award for poetry. Slight foxing to top page edge, else near fine in dust jacket.

(Toronto): Knopf Canada, (1992). First Canadian edition. Octavo, tan boards backed in black cloth, pp. 308. Briefly inscribed by Bissoondath. Fine in dust jacket..

(Toronto): M(cClelland) & S(tewart, 1998). First edition. Signed by the author. Author lives in Canada and was born in Trinidad. Childhood was the winner of the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award as well as the Trillium Award. No Canadian hardcover edition, this is a softcover original. Now into later printings. Wraps, with french flaps. Fine..

(Toronto): M(cClelland) & S(tewart, 1995). First edition. With glowing cover reviews by Jane Urquhart and Caryl Phillips. Senior won the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1987, for her short story collection, "Summer Lightening". She is Jamaican-born, and lives in Toronto. Card covers, with French flaps. Fine..