Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Walrond Eric. Tropic Death. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1926.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Front and back hinges, gutters can be seen.
Seller: Ann Open Book, Lansing, MI, U.S.A.
Walrond, Eric. Tropic Death. Boni & Liverigh, New York, 1926.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 283p. Original black cloth. 19cm. Ex Lib. (Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, including red discard stamp). Cover scuffed. Backstrip pasted down. Half-title trimmed along bottom edge and reglued at hinge. Short stories set in the West Indies. Walrond was born in British Guiana and attended Columbia University. Regarded as a product of the Harlem Renaissance. In our experience.
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.
Walrond, Eric.. TROPIC DEATH.. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926., 1926.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover - 2nd printing (just one month after the first) Ten powerful short stories of Afro-Caribbean life, set in the West Indies, Panama, and the Central American isthmus. An uncommon book (in any original edition) by this Harlem Renaissance writer who was born in Guyana. Although DuBois praised this book for its significance - "Here is a book of ten stories of death, which, with impressionistic pen and little plot, show forth with singular vividness the life of black laborers of the West Indies. There is superstition, unusual dialect, singular economic glimpses; but above all, there is truth and human sympathy" he also called it "hard reading." 282 pp. Fair condition only in dark brown cloth with gold lettering, black and gold illustrated endpapers (front hinge starting, several leaves were carelessly cut open, scattered foxing mostly in margins and some rubbing and shelfwear to the boards - but still a very readable copy of an important book .)
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Eric Walrond. Tropic Death. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1926.
Price: US$186.55 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Idioma inglés. Ejemplar en muy buen estado. Encuadernación de tapa dura, en plena tela. 19x13 - 283 pp.
Seller: Librería Antonio Azorín, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, M, Spain
WALROND, ERIC. Tropic Death. New York: Boni, 1926.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, original pictorial black cloth with stylized image on the upper cover.
Seller: Wyatt Houston Day Bookseller, Nyack, NY, U.S.A.
Walrond, Eric. Tropic Death. Boni & Liverigh, New York, 1926.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 283p. Original black cloth. dj. 19 cm. Jacket corners and backstrip heavily chipped with portions of backstrip missing. Bookplate mostly removed from original illustrated front free endpaper with some damage to endpaper. Ten Short stories set here and there including the West Indied, Panama, Guiana, etc. Walrond was born in British Guiana and attended Columbia University. This book is regarded as a product of the Harlem Renaissance. 2nd Printing [so stated on copyright page].
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.
Walrond, Eric [Derwent]. TROPIC DEATH [Benjamin Brawley's Copy]. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1926.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 109 pages. In Good condition, lacking dust jacket. Bound in publisher's black cloth, with yellow stamping. Boards show some general rubbing and wear, particularly along extremities. Text block has webbing visible along both front and rear gutters, with yellow illustrated endpapers, and some scattered pencil marginalia and several passages underlined (presumably in Brawley's hand). Ownership signature of Benjamin Brawley to the front free end paper. Shelved in Case 2. Eric D. Walrond as an Afro-Caribbean writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. He arrived in New York (after having lived in British New Guiana and Panama) in 1918, and soon began contributing to many of the prominent literary publications of the time: The Smart Set, The New Republic and Vanity Fair and Negro World. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction in both 1928 and 1929, and his work was widely praised. "Shortly after Tropic Death's publication in 1926, critic Benjamin Brawley referred to it as "the most important contribution made by a Negro to American letters since the appearance of [Paul Laurence] Dunbar's Lyrics of Lowly Life" ("Renaissance" 234)." [Imani D. Owens, MELUS, Volume 41, Issue 4, December 2016]. Benjamin Brawley was an American author and educator whose books include The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States (1918) and New Survey of English Literature (1925). He served as the first dean of Morehouse College from 1912 to 1920, taught at Shaw University, and was the chair of the English department at Howard University. 1363782. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.