ISBN: 9780934257909 - Essequibo (5 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine.

Paperback. Condition: Used-Very Good. Pap. Minor shelf wear.

First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; slightly dust-dulled and edge-bumped. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 62 pages ; 22 cm. Contents; Amerindian -- River Memories -- Trapped Agoutis -- It Is Good to Look Out on Great Rivers -- Half-Man in a Storm -- Caiman Fever -- Essequibo Riddle Song -- Last of her Race -- Stop By Cocoa Yard -- River Grave -- Life and Death Tree -- Carib Bones -- Poison-Maker -- Dream Island -- Trace of Sugar -- Scholar -- 'Hangman' Cory -- Satin Princess -- Force and Beauty of Wild Pigs -- Death and Burial of a Chief -- Perfect Roses -- Dorothea at Work and Worship -- Nightscape -- Explorer -- Incident Past Midnight, Bucksands -- Snail Painting -- Card-Players -- Deep Pool -- Manateuk Falls -- Last Voyage -- Forest Path, Nightfall -- Sun Parrots are Late This Year -- River-Crossing Moths. Subjects; Caribbean poetry (English). Guyana Description and travel Poetry. Essequibo ; Poetry. Rivers. Travel. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; slightly dust-dulled and edge-bumped. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 62 pages ; 22 cm. Contents; Amerindian -- River Memories -- Trapped Agoutis -- It Is Good to Look Out on Great Rivers -- Half-Man in a Storm -- Caiman Fever -- Essequibo Riddle Song -- Last of her Race -- Stop By Cocoa Yard -- River Grave -- Life and Death Tree -- Carib Bones -- Poison-Maker -- Dream Island -- Trace of Sugar -- Scholar -- 'Hangman' Cory -- Satin Princess -- Force and Beauty of Wild Pigs -- Death and Burial of a Chief -- Perfect Roses -- Dorothea at Work and Worship -- Nightscape -- Explorer -- Incident Past Midnight, Bucksands -- Snail Painting -- Card-Players -- Deep Pool -- Manateuk Falls -- Last Voyage -- Forest Path, Nightfall -- Sun Parrots are Late This Year -- River-Crossing Moths. Subjects; Caribbean poetry (English). Guyana Description and travel Poetry. Essequibo ; Poetry. Rivers. Travel. 1 Kg. …

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, a paperback original. Poetry by the author of The Humming Bird, one of the most celebrated West Indian novels - the Essequibo Rive, the main source of inspiration for the poems, runs through the mountains and forests of Guyana to the sea. According to the blurb on his book Mercy Ward, "McDonald is Antiguan by ancestry, Trinidadian by birth, Guyanese by adoption and West Indian by conviction". Fine in wrappers. SIGNED. Signed by Author(s).…