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PHILLIPS, CARYL - Cambridge

Title: Cambridge
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. First American Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0679405321. Stated first American edition. Caryl Phillips describes the realities of life on a Caribbean sugar plantation during the era of slavery in his novel. The story is begun through a diary by Emily Cartwright, a white Englishwoman. Cambridge, a slave, closes the narrative as the lives of the two become closely intertwined. --- In brown paper-covered boards backed in navy cloth, with cover and spine titling in gilt. Jacket features wrap-around color reproduction of Frans Jansz's Brazilian Landscape. --- A very nice copy: clean, bright, and newish but with remainder mark rubberstamped to lower textblock edge. Bright unclipped jacket also nice but with minor rubbing.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall ; (8), 184 pages. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

Keywords: 0679405321 >>Fiction

Price: US$ 11.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 84360