Bennett Alvin (10 results)

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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Fourth printing (stated). A solid copy with tight binding and square, uncreased spine. Book is flat and with the exception of some creasing to the front cover and a little edgewear, not showing much wear. Back cover and pages lightly toned. Ink notation top first (half-title) page, else no marks.

softcover. Condition: good. Good condition. Moderate wear. Binding fairly tight, pages age toned. Some writing inside. Pictures available upon request.? nd.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. X, 120 Pp. Black Cloth Spine, Gilt, Maroon Boards. Lightly Used. Dust Jacket Priced $4.95, A Few Short Tears, Light Wear. With Two Pages Of Handwritten Notes Constituting A General Evaluation Of The Book.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Reprint. 246 pages. "Granny Brown, known as GB to her many friends and enemies, was tennant of one of the king-sized dust-bins constructed and filled with rubbish by the slum area behind Montego Bay, Jamaica. She was a stonebreaker by profession and by genius historian of all the scandalous gossip of the community". - from back cover. Underlining and/or marginalia interspersed throughout. Average wear. Binding intact. Solid copy.

BINDING - Hardcover. Condition: CONDITION - used/fair. 1st Edition. Carribean Writers Series. 246 Pages. Ex Library. Board Edges Worn.

First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author; 8vo (20.5 x 14 cm); inscribed in pen to front free endpaper; publisher's teal cloth, spine lettered in gilt, unclipped dust-jacket with design by Brian Russell The first edition, first impression of Alvin Bennett's satirical novel God the Stonebreaker, inscribed by the author 'To John from Alvin'.

Illustrated with 2 cartoon illustrations. Stapled as issued, glued into wrappers decorated with an unsigned illustration depicting a tropical joint baptism. Luton, Armaus (Publishers and Distributors) Ltd. No date [but circa Spine of wrappers partially defective, lucking a few centimetres at head and foot. The text block itself is tight.  The following biographical information is from an excellent essay by F.I. Case in The Encyclopedia of Post Colonial Literatures in English: Alvin Gladstone Bennett (1918-2004), born in Jamaica, emigrated to Britain in 1954 where he worked as a social worker and wrote for Jamaica's Daily Gleaner newspaper. He published two novels and wrote several short stories which were broadcast on the BBC in the sixties and seventies, all set in the Jamaican community in England. This book is cited as his only poetry publication, and that his poetry shares the quality of his fiction "in which the social hunger of the wretched is confronted with the literal interpretations of sacred texts and the emptiness of hope. . . . Out of Darkness (undated) displays a degree of irreverence similar to that of his novels, the poems are conservative and traditional in structure." To a casual reader, though God is present throughout there is a strong element of scepticism about clerical life, with satire on Jamaican consumerism, regret at the loss of island paradises, and resentment at social immobility and the lot of the poor.  Not found in the British Library catalogue, not found in LibraryHub, not found in WorldCat, no digital surrogate found. The unusual imprint published some ten books in 1957, including poetry by Edgar Foxall and Patrick Bosustow (remembered by the internet as headmaster of the very English "Junior and Senior School" in Cyprus.) .

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