Pan Peacocks by Roberts Walter Adolphe (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Cloth with decorated papercovered boards, with paper spine label.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st ed. 80p. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards. 21cm. Small gouge in backstrip cloth which is also lightly worn at ends (minor loss of cloth). Other extremities rubbed with some loss of patterned paper. No Jacket. INSCRIBED on endpaper by Roberts in 1929 to Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas, who lived in Connecticut and also wrote poetry. Roberts, who was born and raised in Jamaica and returned to live there in 1951, is often mentioned or honored as one of the fathers of Jamaican independence. He is occasionally regarded as having some African ancestry although there seems to be little evidence to support this belief. "Pan and Peacocks" was his second published book of poetry. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Cloth and decorated papercovered boards, with paper spine label. Cloth scuffed, and corners worn through, a sound, near very good copy, lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed by the author: "For Mary McCowen, There should have been a poem about her curly hair. W. Adolphe Roberts. April 2, 1931." Roberts was a prolific black journalist of West Indian origins, who was later known for his travel books of that region. He wrote the first true detective novel by an African-American, as well as volumes of both travel and poetry. The author's third book, and second volume of poetry, a very uncommon title.…