HISTORY, FABLE AND MYTH IN THE CARIBBEAN AND GUIANAS. Revised and Updated Edition.

First US edition, and first printing of this revised edition with a new introduction. Signed by the author. Limited edition. Original stapled card wrappers, the front panel with a colour reproduction of 'Dream, seminal of...' by LeRoi Clarke. Photographic portrait and biography of the author to the rear panel. A near fine copy, the binding firm, the contents clean throughout. Showing a little light shelfwear and a tiny round stain (c. 5mm) to the front panel.

Signed and dated by the author to the verso of the front cover underneath the limitation information (this copy hand-numbered no. 441 of 750 copies). 'History, Fable & Myth in the Caribbean and Guianas' prints the text of the third series of Edgar Mittleholzer Lectures delivered by Wilson Harris in 1970. First published by the National History and Arts Council, Ministry of Information and Culture, Georgetown, Guyana, in 1970, this First US edition prints a new introduction ('Wilson Harris and the Architecture of Consciousness') by Selwyn R. Cudjoe. Although unmarked as such, this copy is from the library of Frank Pike, drama editor at Faber and Faber and friend of the author.