Tropic Seed [original UK title: No Quarter]

New York: Farrar & Rinehart. Very Good in Good dj. (1932). First American Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped and more) [modest shelfwear to book, light soiling to edges of text block; the jacket is colorful and attractive, but unfortunately has had about a quarter-inch trimmed off along both the top and bottom edges]. "Here is a sturdy, richly-colored tale of several generations of French emigres living on the island of Martinique, and of the strain of an extraordinary passion for adventure and playing for high stakes and money, life and love, that this family inherits from a buccaneer ancestor." (The blurb rather obscures the fact that the "adventure" and "high stakes" etc. that these folks are involved in include piracy and the slave trade.) The three periods in which the novel's narrative take place are: the days of the buccaneers, in the 17th century; the trans-Atlantic slave trade of the 18th century; and the Haitian Revolution during the Napoleonic Era (late 18th/early 19th century). .