Bake-face and other guava stories / by Opal Palmer Adisa ; introduction by Barbara Christian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adisa, Opal Palmer, 1954-

Contributor:

Christian, Barbara, 1943-2000, introduction writer.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Jamaica--Fiction.

Women.

Women--Jamaica--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Women--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Jamaica.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 116 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : Kelsey St. Press, 1986.

Contents:

Bake-face

Duppy get her

Me man angel

Widows' walk.

Notes:

"'Bake-Face & Other Guava Stories' was set in Palatino by Heyday Books and was printed in an edition of 2,000 copies by Delta Lithograph Co. in Los Angeles."

"The ackee fruit on the cover is the national fruit of Jamaica; it is poisonous until ripe, at which time the pod bursts, revealing the dark, glossy seeds."

"First Edition/March 1986."

"Book design and illustration by Victor Ichioka."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Other Format:

Online version: Adisa, Opal Palmer, 1954- Bake-face and other guava stories.

ISBN:

0932716202

9780932716200

OCLC:

13359507