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Jamaica Books & Ephemera
Polygamy in Islaam
by Philips, Abu Ameenah Bilal; Jameelah Jones
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: International Islamic Publishing House / Tawheed, 1996. Trade Paperback. 100p., wraps, fifth edition. Philips was born in Jamaica and became a Muslim in Canada in the 1970s. Jones is a native Georgian who converted while in college in Detroit. The authors argue that "the Western notions of sex equality and romantic pre-marital 'love' are not necessary in Islamic marriage based on piety and the commitment on the part of both partners to win the pleasure of Almighty Allah.
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$20.00
![Jamaikan buru: Saitei de saikona karibu no rakuen ジャマイカン・ブルー : 最低で最高なカリブの楽園 [Jamaican Blue: the Worst and the Best Caribbean Paradise]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/806/086/536086806.0.b.2.jpg)
Jamaikan buru: Saitei de saikona karibu no rakuen ジャマイカン・ブルー : 最低で最高なカリブの楽園 [Jamaican Blue: the Worst and the Best Caribbean Paradise]
by Yamaguchi, Masahiro 山口昌弘
Tokyo: Besutoserazu ベストセラーズ, 1999. Paperback. 191 p., very good in wraps, text in Japanese. Records Yamaguchi's multiple travels to Jamaica as a photojournalist. Copiously illustrated with numerous color drawings and photographs. He narrates his experiences working in Jamaica, the difficulties and dangers this presents, as well as his visits to various sites including Bob Marley's birthplace.
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$30.00
Ignoring Hurts: Poems
by Figueroa, John J
Washington DC: Three Continents Press, 1976. Paperback. x, 121p., wraps, first paperback edition, light handling wear, else very good condition. Jamaican poet.
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$15.00
A Picturesque Tour Of the Island Of Jamaica From Drawings Made In The Years 1820 and 1821
by Hakewill, James
Kingston: Mill Press Limited, 1990. Reprint. Hardcover. Orig. red morocco, marbled boards with seal of Jamaica in gilt on front cover with matching marbled endpapers. Fine in fine matching red cloth slipcase. Unpaginated. with 13 page introduction from the original edition. Folio, 43 x 29 cm. Limited edition, copy 288 of 500. Foreword by David Boxer, Director, National Gallery of Jamaica. Biographical Sketch of Hakewill by B.W. Higman, Department of History University of the West Indies. Original...
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$850.00
![From 'Abeng, a Description of Nanny the Leader of the Windward Maroons' [broadside]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/705/510/843510705.0.b.0.jpg)
From 'Abeng, a Description of Nanny the Leader of the Windward Maroons' [broadside]
by Cliff, Michelle
Martinsville, IN: Helaine Victoria Press, 1984. Broadside. 12x18 inch broadside, rubricated and ornamented text. "This edition of two hundred broadsides was printed on a Chandler & Price platen press. Design, presswork, and hand composition by Jocelyn H. Cohen using Munder Venezian foundry types and sixteenth century initials... The broadside was printed on Strathmore Brigadoon paper and the type distributed in May 1984..." The press, which took its name from the middle names of founders Jocelyn Helaine...
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$65.00
Thoughts, reflections and poetry
by Hall, Noel "Nantambu
Brooklyn: the author, 1974. Paperback. 64p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, illus. in text by the Jamaica-born African American poet and others, wraps shelfworn else very good condition.
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$20.00
THE CIVIL AND NATURAL HISTORY OF JAMAICA...
by BROWNE, Patrick
London: T. Osborne and J. Shipton, 1756. First Edition. Hardcover. A clean, fresh copy in an excellent binding. About Fine. Folio (9" x 14-1/4") in modern calf-backed marbled boards with gilt decorations on the spine and a gilt-lettered red morocco spine label; [vi], viii, 503 pages. Complete with half-title page and list of subscribers. Illustrated with 2 large folding maps (Jamaica; Port Royal and Kingston) and 49 engraved plates, mostly botanical (38) but also including sea life and animals (11),...
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$6,250.00
Human Rights Watch: vol. 16, #6 (B) November 2004; Hated to Death: Homophobia, violence and Jamaica's HIV/AIDS epidemic
New York: Human Rights Watch, 2004. Magazine. 80p., 8.5x11 inches, glossary, note on Jamaican language, summary, recommendations, methods, background, conclusion, footnotes, appendix, very good report in stapled color pictorial wraps.
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$25.00
Jamaican Ancestry: How To Find Out More, Revised Edition
by Madeleine E. Mitchell
Heritage Books, Inc.. New. If you think there's not much you can do without traveling to Jamaica, you're wrong! Many records are available if you know how to access the various sources through libraries and other repositories Here you'll find hints and details on what's available and where, covering vital and church records, land patents and deeds, censuses, immigration and emigration, military records, handbooks and directories, court records, newspapers, occupations and more The last few chapters...
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$24.50
Selected Vital Records from the Jamaican Daily Gleaner: Life on the Island of Jamaica as seen through Newspaper Extracts, Volume 1: 1865-1915
by Madeleine E. Mitchell
Heritage Books, Inc.. New. This is the first book of its kind to appear for Jamaica, West Indies The compiler started extracting births, deaths, marriages and other events from the Daily Gleaner newspaper of Jamaica in 1984 Her initial genealogical research for her own family later expanded to include the names of friends' families and other acquaintances The vital records included in this volume were taken mostly from microfilms and cover the dates from 1865-1915 Because of the way the project was...
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$44.00
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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$250.00
SPEAK NO EVIL: Dell Mapback #25
by Eberhart, Mignon G
N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1944. 1st printing, January 1944. Dell Mapback #25 (number inside of keyhole). A couple of cover creases, some wear at corners, small dampstain at lower edge, not effecting text, spine edges rubbed, pages age toned. Cover by Gerald Gregg. Map at rear of Major Robert Dakin's Villa, Scene of the Murder; Montego Bay, Jamaica. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks...
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$9.60
Jamaica: The Portrait of a Island
by W. Adolphe Roberts
New York: Coward-McCann, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 247pp. Illustrated with 16 black and white plates. Very Good with some foxing along the edges in a Very Good with a lightly faded spine, shallow nicks, and some soiling.
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$75.00
![Masegaki judai bokenki: マセガキ十代冒険記 : Kanaetarimassa ore no yume [A chronicle of the adventures of a teenager acting grown up: my dream come true!] 叶えたりまっさ俺の夢](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/043/928/544928043.0.b.jpg)
Masegaki judai bokenki: マセガキ十代冒険記 : Kanaetarimassa ore no yume [A chronicle of the adventures of a teenager acting grown up: my dream come true!] 叶えたりまっさ俺の夢
by Fuma, Takerunomitoko 夫麻武尊
Nagoya: Shikosha 志考社, 2004. Paperback. 204 p., illustrated with scattered b&w snapshots (of rock singers, of self and others lounging with beer), softbound in 7x5 inch plain printed cover with a dust-wrapper in colors; text in Japanese. Author decided to leave for Jamaica while still in high school. Recollects how he got the money together, what he saw there, and his next stage of life as a wandering poet traveling around Asia.
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$18.00
Psalms of Osagyefo... chanting down Babylon
by Osagyefo
East Elmhurst NY: Jah Roots Production, 2001. Paperback. 109p., wraps slightly shelf worn else very good condition. Jamaican born dub poet.
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$12.00
Constitutional Change in the British West Indies 1880-1903 With Special Reference to Jamaica, British Guiana, and Trinidad
by Will, H.A
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970. Hardcover. xiii, 331p., black cloth boards gilt in glossy blue dust jacket, a very good clean copy. Author treats of Black people as 'Negroes', 'creoles' and 'coloured'.
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$20.00
The River's Song: A Novel
by Bishop, Jacqueline
Leeds, UK: Peepal Tree Press, 2007. Paperback. 183p., wraps, 5.25x8 inches, wraps worn else very good condition; inscribed and signed by Bishop on the half-title. Coming-of-age novel set in Jamaica by a Jamaican-American author.
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$12.00
![[extra-illustrated.] The Narrative of General Venables, with an Appendix of Papers Relating to the Expedition to the West Indies and the Conquest of Jamaica, 1654-1655. Edited for the Royal Historical Society by C.H. Firth](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/936/891/1452891936.0.b.jpg)
[extra-illustrated.] The Narrative of General Venables, with an Appendix of Papers Relating to the Expedition to the West Indies and the Conquest of Jamaica, 1654-1655. Edited for the Royal Historical Society by C.H. Firth
by Venables, General Robert, et alia; C.H. Firth, editor
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1900. Hardcover. [Copperplate map fixed to pastedown]; xli, 180p., two maps described below, hardbound first edition in cinnamon-brown cloth boards, 8.5x6.5 inches, eccentric and rather beautiful book design: smartly framed in blind and gilt, with an onlaid spine decoration (armorial). Signatures opened neatly throughout, fine coated yellow endsheets, slight edgewear to casing, hinges excellent, textblock mildly crimped (probably in bindery), one endsheet removed (neatly...
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$90.00
Jamaica 1959 - The Pleasure Island of the World. A Souvenir of a Beautiful Island
by Chapman, Esther, editor
Kingston: West Indian Review, 1959. Pamphlet. 56p., slick alkaline paperstock throughout provided with many captioned photographs, very few in color. Multiple ads for hotels and booze. 11x8.5 inch color wraps, mildest signs of any handling or age, a very good copy of this tourist come-on for white Americans.
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$15.00
Until it's Time to Die
by Henry, Ricardo F
New York: Vantage Press, 1997. Hardcover. 219p., first edition, remainder stripe on bottom fore edge else very good condition in like dj. Jamaican-born African-American writer "currently" (at the time of publication) residing in Washington, D.C. Novel about a Black Jesus that appears on a California beach.
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$25.00
Storm Signals: Structural Adjustment and Development Alternatives in the Caribbean
by McAfee, Kathy
London / Boston: Zed Books Ltd in association with Oxfam America, 1991. Paperback. xii, 259p., line-drawn map, softbound in 8.5x5 inch glossy decorated wraps. Covers slightly edgeworn, near-new condition, entirely clean, sound and unmarked.
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$12.00
Finding my way
by Scott, John Irving E
Boston: Meador, 1949. Hardcover. 308p., very good hardcover in chipped dj. Academic, social and spiritual advice for students, by the Jamaican-born Dean of Alcorn College in Mississippi. He was also the author of "The education of black people in Florida" and other books.
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$35.00
Deported; volume 1, entry and exit findings Jamaicans returned home from the U.S. between 1997 and 2003
by Headley, Bernard, with Michael D. Gordon and Andrew MacIntosh
[Mona, Jamaica]: the author, 052. x, 80p., very good in wraps. The Jamaican-American criminologist and his associates challenge the notion that deportees are the source of violent criminality on their return to Jamaica.
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$35.00
Jack: vennernes blad; #25, Aug. 15, 1983: mandeb fra Jamaica
by Michaelsen, Torben, editor
Holbæk: Forlaget COQ International, 1983. Magazine. [48p] includes covers, 6.75x9.5 inches, text in Danish, illustrated with b&w and color explicit gay male sex photos, very good magazine in staple pictorial wraps.
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$35.00
Area Handbook for Jamaica
by Irving kaplan, blutstein, Johnston
U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. stated first, cloth cover no dj, minor wear to cover,pgs clean and unmarkedListing Includes Books Image . Please email me if you need to see more pictures! The orders are processed promptly, carefully packaged and shipped within 1 day of purchase. PLEASE NOTE! if you need the book quickly, please Purchase Priority Shipping.Media will not show updates in mail confirmation till reaches continental U.S. FOR International...
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