Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1959. First American edition. Hardcover, [octavo], beige cloth boards, black spine titles and cover decoration, pictorial dust jacket, 216 pp. Guyanese-born, British-American, novelist, E.R. Brathwaite's first novel, later adapted to the screen in a 1967 film starring Sidney Poitier.