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 i