Marcelin Philippe Thoby and Pierre (51 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Rubbing to jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. Near Fine in Good Dust Jacket with edge chips, edge tears, and smudging.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . Slightly dampstained. (haiti, literature, fiction).

Hardcover. g/fair, well worn dj, owner's sticker on cover page. Novel; 4570.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Time Reading Program Special Edition. An unopened copy. Translated from the French by Peter C. Rhodes with a new introduction by Philippe Thoby-Marcelin. The extraordinary novels of Haitian peasant life written by Philippe Thoby-Marcelin and his younger brother Piere Marcelin were produced in a collaboration that began in 1939. The result was the unveiling not only of a dual literary talent but of a people who until then had been so little known to the world.…

Hard Cover. First U.S. Edition, First printing. Rinehart colophon present. FINE IN VERY GOOD+, PRICE-CLIPPED DJ WITH SLIGHT EDGEWEAR. Translated from the French by Edward Laroque Tinker.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. 210 Pp. Orange Cloth, Spine Stamped Gilt And Black. First Printing Indicated (Logo On Copyright Page). Near Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket Priced $2.50. No Marks.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGood copy with clean pages. Spine slightly slanted. 8vo. Published in New York, 1964. 172 pages.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 225 pages. The novel is set in Haiti and features voodoo rites and ceremonies. Winner of the Second Latin American Literary Prize Competition. First American edition (first printing). A very good copy in decorated orange cloth covers with title in orange on brown background on spine. Illustrated endpapers. Edge and corner wear with spine ends rolled. Former owner name on front free endpaper. In very good illustrated dust jacket with edge and corner wear and small edge chips.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Dustwrapper and book are slightly rubbed and faded along the edges and at the corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First English Language Edition. Xii, 179 Pp. Green Cloth, Spine Lettered In Silver. First Printing Stated. Near Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket Priced $6.75. No Marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition in English. Translated from the French by Edward Larocque Tinker. A bright, about fine copy, lacking the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. Very good in good dust jacket. Top panel corners bumped, light rubbing of spine ends, panels shelf rubbed, very light shadow of frontispiece on title page, dust jacket is soiled with some browning, very light chipping of bottom spine end, top corner of back cover where it meets flap torn.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition in English. Translated from the French by Edward Larocque Tinker. Modest edgewear, corners lightly bumped, a very good copy lacking the dust jacket. Story of the more traditional native aspects of life in Haiti.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First American edition. 8vo. Introduction by Edmund Wilson. Translated by Eva Thoby Marcelin. Dust jacket (unclipped). Good (water stains to covers).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Translated, with an introduction, color frontispiece, chapter heading decorations and endpapers by Edward Larocque Tinker. Dust jacket (unclipped; short tears). Good (water stains to lower margins). Novel set in the author's native Haiti. Prize winning novel, Second Latin-American contest (DJ).…

hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Boston. 1951. Houghton Mifflin. 1st American Edition. Previous Owner's Name Penned in Front, Otherwise Good in Worn Dustjacket With Pieces Missing. Translated from the French by Leonard Thomas. 204 pages. hardcover. Cover: Anne Marie Jauss. keywords: Caribbean Haiti Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - The pencil of God writes hard and fast when it writes; and the Haitians say the pencil of God has no eraser. This is a novel of the strange half-lit world which exists in Haiti between the church and continued on back nap continued from front flap voodoo, and of a simple devout man, Dioghe Cyprien, a small warehouse owner, whose weakness is an everlasting and virile love of the ladies. In his last fling, the very dissimulation and craftiness which he has used to attain his heart's desire is boomeranged back to him by his love's old female relatives, who place a voodoo curse on him. His life becomes a series of freak disasters - tongues clack in the provincial, small-town atmosphere of Saint-Marc. The gossip that he is a were wolf, a fiend, a consort of evil spirits, at first a whisper, becomes a deafening roar. Like a swimmer pulled by the tide between the sharks and the reefs, Diogbne is pulled between the church and voodoo. The curse is the curse of gossip and suspicion, which can be as effective in Boston or New York or anywhere else as it is in Haiti. inventory #8510 Previous Owner's Name Penned in Front, Otherwise Good in Worn Dustjacket With Pieces Missing. …

hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1970. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. Introduction by Edmund Wilson. Translated from the Haitian French by Eva Thoby-Marcelin. 179 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Catherine Smolich. keywords: Caribbean Haiti Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - Although ALL MEN ARE MAD is the fourth novel by the Marcelin brothers to be published in English, these Haitian writers have yet to receive the recognition they deserve. As early as 1949 Edmund Wilson wrote that 'These books of the Marcelins are distinguished performances. They deal with difficult subjects - material that is controversial in Haiti and unfamiliar abroad; and presenting them, without sentimentality or by political melodrama and with no explicit comment, they bring out in them a human poignancy that is communicated to readers anywhere.' ALL MEN ARE MAD, although fiction, is based on an episode in recent Haitian history. In 1942, during the regime of President Elie Lescot, the Catholic Church attempted to abolish vodou, the native religion that had merged several Catholic saints into its original pantheon of African spirits. The result, as depicted by the Marcelins, was a disaster for both sides. In his introduction Wilson writes: 'The special plight of the Haitians is made to extend a perspective to the miseries and futilities of the whole human race, to our bitter 'ideological' conflicts and our apparently pointless ambitions. ALL MEN ARE MAD is a very entertaining but also troubling book, and it is a most distinguished work of literature.' inventory #6980.…

Condition: Very Good. 1950. Hardcover. Good clean copy in original cloth covers. Light wear to spine. Light pencil scoring on FFEP, remains very good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HAITI CANAPE-VERT BY BROTHERS MARCELIN TRANSLATED BY E. LAROCQUE TINKER 1944. This book opens with a brief section titled: Haitian Background, written by the translator, which recalls among other things that the country was the first Black Republic on the American Continent founded in 1804, and that a regiment of Haitian Chasseurs, fought on the side of the colonists during our Revolutionary war. This tale of Haiti, by the Brothers Philippe Thoby-Marcelin and Pierre Marcelin, is titled: Canape-Vert. It was translated by Edward Larocque Tinker who, in addition to his role in writing the background piece, designed and decorated the book. This small hard cover book (5 ¾ x 8 ¼ inches, 225 pages) was published by Farrar & Rinehart of New York and Toronto, dated 1944, a First Edition according to my research. There is a brightly colored frontispiece, again by Tinker, and an opening list of the Cast, in lieu of a Table of Content. It is worth noting that this book was the Prize Winning Novel in the Second Latin American Contest. The book is bound in patterned cloth with titles on the spine; the endpapers are also decorated with a Haitian scene like pattern. Condition: This book is in very good condition. The hard covers are perhaps a bit dust dulled but generally clean with some darkening along the edges. The hard covers are a bit sprung, barely perceptible and doubtless correctable. Inside, there is a rather formal book plate cum coat of arms of a former owner on the half-title. This is the only mark in the book; the interior pages have a slight age-toned cast to their outer edge but are otherwise clean and bright. Both hinges are fully intact, and the binding is tight and sound. This book is not ex-library or a remainder.…

hard cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. New York:Rinehart & Company, Inc. (1946). 1st edition. 210pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book in very good condition. Page edges lightly soiled with dust residue and end-pages lightly age toned, otherwise a very good, clean copy, free of previous owners marks or signatures.  The dust jacket is in good condition, soiled and shelf-worn, with wear (including chips and tears) to edges and folds. …

Very good with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is lightly bumped and rubbed at the corners and at top of spine and has some small light smudges on back panel. 210 pages.

210p., hardcover, textblock is topstained green, blackened rubbing to dust jacket and foxing inside the jacket; otherwise in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American edition. Translated by Leonard Thomas. Introduction by Edmund Wilson. Slightly cocked spine and toning on the board edges thus very good in a good only price-clipped dust jacket with toning, chips, and tears. A novel written by Haitian brothers.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Introduction by Edmund Wilson. Translated by Eva Thoby-Marcelin. Just about fine in near fine dust jacket with very light wear and a faintly toned spine. Review copy with slip laid in. A novel of Haiti.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American edition of this translation. Translated from the French *La Bête du Musseau* by Peter C. Rhodes. Small octavo. 210pp. Trifle worn else fine in soiled, good only dust jacket with slight loss at the folds and an aggressive price-clipping that affects the title on the upper flap.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition of this translation. Translated from the French *La Bête du Musseau* by Peter C. Rhodes. Slight toning on the front hinge else near fine in a very good dust jacket with toning on the spine, shallow chips, and toning.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First American edition of this translation. Translated from the French *La Bête du Musseau* by Peter C. Rhodes. Slight toning on the front hinge and faint spotting on the top stain else near fine in a near fine dust jacket with tiny tears, rubbing, and some spotting.…

hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. New York. 1946. Rinehart. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket W/A Scuff Mark At The Top Of The Spine. Translated by Peter C. Rhodes. 210 pages. hardcover. keywords: Caribbean Haiti Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - In THE BEAST OF THE HAITIAN HILLS Philippe Thoby-Marcelin and Pierre Marcelin have created a tale of violence as well as charm, and the story is always strong and frequently terrifying. Morin Dutrilleul was a city man who went to the country to live. He was not superstitious, he did not believe the old legends and felt calmly superior to the peasants who did. To prove his point he cut down the tree at whose foot the sacrifices to the local gods had always been left. From that point on the story rises in a crescendo of fear; fear by the peasants of the Cigouave, the beast of the hills, fear by Morin of his growing belief in the old legends and the horrible activities of the old gods. The victim of rum and superstition, Morin does not escape the climax of violence and terror with which the book ends. inventory #25563 Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket W/A Scuff Mark At The Top Of The Spine. …