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There is a surprisingly rich resource of books on the West Indies. Only a few books on the Caribbean are commonly found in bookshops but there are an enormous range of titles in existence. There is a fine online bibliography of West Indies books, mostly sorted by author, compiled by Don Mitchell at http://books.ai
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;) ;) | GASPAR David Barry Bondsmen and rebels. - A study of Master-Slave relations in Antigua with implications for Colonial British America. John Hopkins Uni Press (1985) 338pp, 1st ed., minor foxing otherwise clean in original cloth. Also signed letter from author. Fine historical study. | £14.00 |
;) | BOODHOO Ken The Elusive Eric Williams Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston (2002) 302pp. 1st ed., minor foxing, clean in card covers. | £6.00 |
;) | O'SHAUGHNESSY Andrew Jackson An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean (Early American Studies) Uni of Pennsylvania Press (2000) 357pp. 1st ed., foxing to page edges otherwise clean in card covers. | £6.00 |
;) | LEWIS Gordon K. The Virgin Islands: A Caribbean Lilliput Northwestern Uni Press (1972) 382pp. 1st ed., pen inscription on end paper and foxing to page edges otherwise clean in original cloth. | £20.00 |
;) | CAMPBELL Mavis C. The Maroons of Jamaica. - 1655-1796 Bergin & Garvey Publishers (1988) vi + 296pp. 1st ed., foxing to page edges otherwise clean in discoloured original boards. | £40.00 |
;) | SUED-BADILLO Jalil UNESCO General History of the Caribbean - Volume I: The Autochthonous Societies UNESCO Publishing (2003) 442pp + 19 plates. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £10.00 |
;) | MANLEY Rachel Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood Ian Randle Publishers, Jamaica (1996) 418pp + plates. 1st ed., light foxing throughout otherwise clean in card covers. | £5.00 |
;) | OLWIG Karen Fog Global Culture, Island Identity: Continuity and Change in the Afro-Caribbean Community of Nevis Harwood Academic Pub (2002) xi + 239pp. Fine in creased card covers. | £15.00 |
;) | EMMER Pieter C. UNESCO General History of the Caribbean - Volume II: The Caribbean in the 'Long' Sixteenth Century UNESCO Publishing (1999) 344pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. | £75.00 |
;) | KNIGHT Franklin W. UNESCO General History of the Caribbean - Volume III: Slave Societies of the Caribbean UNESCO Publishing (1997) xvi + 379pp. 1st ed., some foxing to card covers and first and last few pages otherwise clean in card covers. | £25.00 |
;) | BRERETON Bridget UNESCO General History of the Caribbean - Volume V: The Caribbean in the Twentieth Century UNESCO Publishing (2008) xxix + 758pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. | £50.00 |
;) | HIGMAN B.W. UNESCO General History of the Caribbean - Volume VI: Methodology and Historiography of the Caribbean UNESCO Publishing (1999) xxii + 948pp + plates. Clean in card covers. | £50.00 |
;) | AKENSON Donald Harman If the Irish ran the World. Montserrat, 1630-1730 McGill-Queen's Uni Press (1997) x + 273pp. 1st ed., foxing to page edges and covers otherwise clean. | £20.00 |
;) | HENRY Paget and BUHLE Paul C.L.R. James's Caribbean Duke Uni Press (1992) xvi + 288pp. 1st ed., foxed throughout otherwise clean in card covers. | £5.00 |
;) | BROWN Wayne Edna Manley. - The Private Years 1900 - 1938. Andre Deutsch (1975) 264pp + plates. 1st ed., light toning throughout, clean in D/W. | £6.00 |
;) ;) | GREY Earl The Colonial Policy of Lord John Russell's Administration. Richard Bentley, London (1853) 2 vols. xxvii + 447pp + xii + 508pp. 2nd revised and enlarged ed., clean in modern half calf with marbled boards and new end papers. Faint library h/s on title pages only. Good sections on Guiana, Jamaica, St Lucia and Trinidad and sections on other countries within the Commonwealth. | £200.00 |
;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) | SURINAME Old Photograph album containing many views of Suriname especially gold mining camps. (1929-34) Includes fine street views of Paramaribo, Lawa Concessions mining camp. Many include images of S.A. Savitsky who was a mining engineer. Also some views of Trinidad and a few other photographs. Fine condition. (145) Many fine quality images | £750.00 |
;) ;) | WILLYAMS Cooper An account of the campaign in the West Indies, in the year 1794, - under the command of their excellencies Lieut. General Sir Charles Grey, K.B. and Vice Admiral Sir John Jervis, K.B. commanders in chief in the West Indies; with the reduction of the islands of Martinique, St Lucia, Guadeloupe, Marigalante, Desiada, &c. and the events that followed those unparrelled successes, and caused the loss of Guadeloupe. London, printed by T. Bensley for G. Nicol (1796) 149 + [5] + 62 large pp + plan of Fort Bourbon in Martinique and map of the island with two aquatint engravings in text. 4to. 1st ed., a few tone spots otherwise fine in half calf retaining original marbled boards. 9 x 11" The author was a chaplain with the British navy at the time of the occurrence of the events described. Rare. Note this edition does not include the full page acquatint plates. It is printed in a smaller size font and has much smaller margins than the other edition. | £495.00 |
;) ;) ;) | COLERIDGE Rev. W.H. Charges delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Barbados and the Leeward Islands; - together with prayers on certain public occasions; and addresses to candidates for Holy Orders: to young persons offering themselves for confirmation within that Diocese: and at the consecration of a chapel and burial ground in the city of Caracas. London (1835) x + 324pp + 44pp + 4 hand coloured folding maps. 1st ed., fine in original cloth with later paper label. Includes chapters on Antigua and British Guiana with maps of each. A rare work with details of the final abolition of slavery. The author was uncle of H.N. Coleridge. | £280.00 |
;) ;) | BAIRD Robert Impressions and Experiences of the West Indies and North America in 1849 William Blackwood & Sons (1850) 2 vols. bound in one, vi + 329pp + iv + 315pp + two tinted frontispieces. 1st ed., remarkably clean copy with no foxing, bound in modern quarter calf with marbled boards. Vol 1 gives the author's impressions as he travelled through the Caribbean islands with good sections on Antigua, Cuba, Jamaica, St Kitts Nevis and St Thomas while Vol 2 is concerned with the U.S.A. | £175.00 |
Links to other West Indies sites
Family history of Jamaica
http://www.mymynton.com/index.htm
Sources of genealogy and historical information