Search Results: Guyana from Books of the World

Guyana: Mike Charles Productions, 2005. DVD. Two hours of video taken by the late Lt. Col. Mike Charles during helicopter flights around Guyana. With soundtrack by Dave Martins and the Tradewinds. No DVD Region code listed.

Leeds, England: Peepal Tree, 2002. Trade Paperback. First Thus. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright, with light reading wear to corners. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 168 pages.
Through the perspective of a child, this autobiographic novel depicts the extremely hierarchical world of the colonized British Guiana sugar plantation. Lilboy, the narrator, describes the liveliness and closeness of community and the restrictions it places on the opportunities of personal freedom of those working there. However, Lilboy describes how his family and friends cope with their seemingly bleak existences through maintaining their own rice plots, fishing, and celebrating with feasts and festivities. This story recreates the sights, smells, sounds, and other sensual pleasures of a rural childhood within the plantation era.

Georgetown, Guyana: S.M.H. Aniff and Universal Bookstore, 1997. Staple-Bound Paperback. Fine. Very slight corner wear, otherwise As New. Not from a library. 40 pages. Illustrated, one color map. 8.5 x 11.5 inches.

Turkeyen, Guyana: University of Guyana History Society, June 1991. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. 12 pages.

Chicago: Adams Press, 1999. Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Slight corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 108 pages.

Turkeyen, Guyana: University of Guyana History Society, July 1991. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. 12 pages.

Georgetown, Guyana: Fr. Andrew Morrison, SJ, June 1998. Trade Paperback. First Edition (stated). Very Good. Unmarked. Spine heavily creased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. 419 pages.
The only book to date that can be read to understand the period of Forbes Burnham's control of Guyana is this superb work by Jesuit priest, Father Andrew Morrison, the former editor of the Catholic Standard, the official paper of the Catholic Church in Guyana. It is essential reading to get a glimpse of how an unelected government can destroy a country.

Rare! London: Collier / Grafton Books, February 1986. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. No ownership markings. Text clean. Spine creased. Covers clean. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 304 pages.
Originally published in 1954 under the title The Harrowing of Hubertus. Featuring quick-to-strip heroines, magic, and insanity on a colonial British Guiana sugar plantation.

Georgetown, Guyana: Kunsorn Comics Inc., 1993. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. Near Fine. Text unmarked. Light wear to covers. Securely bound with two staples. Not from a library. 24 pages.

London: Fontana Paperbacks / Flamingo, April 1985. Trade Paperback. First Thus (no additional printings listed). Fine. Pages tanned, otherwise As New. Appears unread. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Corners sharp. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 254 pages.
Kwaku comes from a long line of literary buffoons who manage to triumph over the intelligent people around them. The language Mr. Heath employs to describe this process is luxurious and densely baroque in places, sweetly comic in others. The hero's clowning conceals an essential wisdom and goodness. In the end, he is unable to become as hardened and corrupt as the people he tries so desperately to emulate, and in this lies his greatest success.

London: Pan MacMillan / Picador, September 2001. Trade Paperback. Corrected Edition. Second printing. Very Good. Text block tanned, but unmarked. Foxing to top edge. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 376 pages. "What I had known of Trinidad as a child had seemed to me ordinary, unplanned, just there, with nothing like a past. But the past was there: in the schoolyard, below the saman tree, we stood perhaps on the site of Dominique Cert's Bel-Air estate, where in 1803 the slave commandeur or headman, out of a twisted love for his master, had tried to poison the other slaves. More haunting than this was the thought of the vanished aborigines, on whose land and among whose spirits we all lived." It is the most human kind of history, done with a novelist's eye. Living characters large and small are rescued from the records and set in a larger, guiding narrative about the New World, empire, African slavery, revolution which is… Read More

London: Macmillan Caribbean, 1974. Trade Paperback. 1990 reprint. Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. vi + 218 pages.
Contents : The first Guyanese; The Discovery of Guiana; The search for El Dorado; The European Settlement; The Introduction of sugar and slaves; The first English Invasion; The Buccaneers; The Development of Essequibo and Berbice; The Rise Demerara; The return of the English; The French occupation; The Third English Invasion; The final English Invasion; The Abolition of slavery; Negro villages and Immigration; Making Guyana a modern state; The boundaries of Guyana From Colony to co-operative republic.

New York: Bloomsbury, April 1999. Hardcover. First U.S. Edition (stated) / full number line. Bound-in ribbon bookmark. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight. Jacket clean and bright with slight shelf wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 224 pages.
Spirits are on the move in Pauline Melville's second short story collection. A South American president revisits the scenes of his ruthless rise to power-shortly after his own funeral. A transformed and sparkling city of London sets the scene for a company chairman's nemesis at the hands of his wife. In Andalusia, the spirit of the "duende" inspires an elderly widow to dance a death-defying flamenco. We meet splendacious Mrs. da Silva, sixty-five year old matriarch of Rebel War Band, as she boogies at a carnival. The ghost of Dante's Virgil, leading his pilgrim along perilous paths, is brought to mind as one friend guides another on her final journey.

London & New York: Marion Boyars, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition (no additional printings listed). Very Good book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Dust stains to edges. Jacket clean with light rubbing. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 320 pages.
First edition of the last novel of acclaimed Guyanese writer Roy Heath. Reduced to destitution after losing his status as village faith healer, Kwaku Cholmondeley migrates to Guyana's capital city to sell antique chamber pots to tourists. Instead, he finds an impersonal, corrupt culture and the patronage of an enterprising civil servant at the Ministry of Hope whose spotless reputation for honesty is exceeded only by his corruption. After numerous embarrassments suffered in adjusting to city ways Kwaku's fortunes rise, but the morals and sanity of those around him couldn't be lower. Billed as a comic novel, this is really a dark, psychological study of the ways corruption, prejudice, and superstition… Read More

Oxford: Macmillan Caribbean, May 2008. Trade Paperback. First Edition / full number line. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. iv + 179 pages.
Most of Molly and the Muslim Stick is set in England, and spans the first half of the twentieth century and a little beyond. The story focuses on Molly Harris (Anglo-Brit), a victim of sexual abuse who tries to heal herself of the physical and mental effects of her abuse. When Molly is finally settled into a teaching career in a working class town, and has found a way to bring order to her very disordered life, an illegal immigrant from Guiana shows up on her doorstep. She takes him in, gives him a bath, powders him, clothes him in a dress, sticks a pipe in his mouth, places him on a sofa, and names him Om. He remains in her home, never developing social skills to function outside of it--his most coherent way of communicating with Molly is by emitting scents (of fear, of anger, etc.)--as part servant, part exotic exhibit… Read More

London: Allison & Busby, 1984. Hardcover. First Edition (no additional printings listed). Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends bumped. Slight edge wear. Jacket clean with light rubbing. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 256 pages. A Guyanese graduate is torn between his own life of servitude and the independent but anachronistic life of his Amerindian friend.

London: Faber and Faber, 1968. Paperback. First Edition, Third Printing, 1977. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Corners sharp. Light crease to front hinge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 152 pages.
This is a rare early edition of the first novel by Guyanese writer Wilson Harris. It is the first in Harris's "Guyana Quartet" and is a canonical text in Caribbean literary studies. Set in sixteenth century, the novel tells of a group of men from different backgrounds making their way up a dangerous river within the jungles of Guiana. The party is led by a cruel second-generation European colonialist who is hunting for a woman who has run away from him. Over the course of the journey it becomes apparent that it is not the first time the men have tried to make their way up this river and that last time they attempted to traverse the river they were all drowned. The events are narrated in the first person by an entity identified simply as the… Read More

London: Hansib Publications, August 2007. Trade Paperback. First Edition. New. Not a remainder. Not damaged. 206 pages.

Guyana: Mike Charles Productions, 2009. DVD. A narrated video about the people, places, and natural splendor of Guyana with photographs taken by the late Lt. Col. Mike Charles during two decades of travel around the country. No DVD Region code listed.

Georgetown, Guyana: David Chanderbali, 1994. Trade Paperback. First Edition. Published by author. Near Fine. Inscribed "Best Wishes" "July 1995" (no name) by author on first page. Text block unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Shelf and reading wear to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xiv + 277 pages.