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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) MCKAY, CLAUDE. Banana Bottom. 317 pages. Thick 8vo, original decorative cloth in an Aaron Douglas dust jacket with several chips to the front panel and spine extremities. New York: Harpers, 1933
first edition of mckay's novel of jamaica. Bita is madly in love with Crazy Bow, a wild creature who seduces her at twelve. She is then adopted by white missionaries and sent to England to study. When she returns to the island, "she marries her father's drayman and settles down to a quiet life." Whiteman, page 35.
