CANAPÉ-VERT ... Translated by Edward Larocque Tinker. New York, Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart Inc., [1944]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-ix [x] xi-xxvii [xxviii] [1-2] 3-225 [226-228: blank], inserted frontispiece with color woodcut illustration by Edward Larocque Tinker, decorated boards, top edge stained black, fore-edge untrimmed, pictorial endpapers. First edition. First novel by a fine native Haitian writing team, with seventeen-page introduction, "Haitian Background," by Edward Larocque Tinker. "In CANAPÉ-VERT we have, for the first time in English, a vivid and accurate picture of life on the island [Haiti] seen from the inside. The authors, both Haitian born, have captured the true subtlety of the Negro-peasant mentality, with all its strange naïve reasoning, its deep-rooted superstition, and the tang and savor of its humor." - Tinker. Bleiler (1978), p. 192. Reginald 09658. A fine copy in very good dust jacket priced $2.50 on front flap with wear at edges, tape mends at spine ends and corner, and dust soiling to rear panel. (#161700).
Price: $150.00
First printing has F&R monogram on copyright page.