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Showing items in West Indies Books
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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;) | DYDE Brian A History of Antigua: The Unsuspected Isle. Macmillan (2000) xi + 320pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. | £32.00 |
;) | FERGUS Howard A. Montserrat. Emerald Isle of the Caribbean Macmillan Caribbean (1992) 88pp. Clean in card covers. | £6.00 |
;) | LEWISOHN Florence Tales of Tortola and the British Virgin Islands. Dukane Press (1981) 89pp. 5th printing, fine in card covers. Many attractive line drawings in text. | £8.00 |
;) | DE BOOY Theodore and FARIS John T. The Virgin Islands. - Our New Possessions and the British Islands. J.B. Lippincott Co (1918) 292pp + plates and maps. 1st ed., a little tight foxing otherwise fine in original pictorial cloth. Many photo plates. | £75.00 |
;) ;) ;) | HANNAH Rev J. The Story of the Wreck of the Maria Mail Boat: - with a memoir of Mrs Hincksman, the only survivor. Wesleyan Conference Office London (1890 (circa)) 96pp + 3 plates and engraved frontispiece. Occasional stains otherwise clean in original cloth. Description of the loss of the mail boat Maria off the coast of Antigua in 1826. | £45.00 |
;) | BARBADOS The Advocate Year Book and Who's Who Barbados 1951 Advocate Co Ltd (1951) 233pp + xxxv + folding map and adverts. 1st ed., minor worm damage to end papers and pages of adverts only otherwise clean in original cloth with worm damage. Very scarce | £125.00 |
;) ;) | BARCLAYS BANK British West Indies London (1952) 64pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. Brief guide to the islands with short sections on each island and good B7 W photo illustrations. | £14.00 |
;) | HOYOS F.A. Two Hundred Years. A history of the Lodge School. Advocate Co Ltd (1945) 111 + v + plates pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. | £75.00 |
;) | HOYOS F.A. Barbados. - A history from the Amerindians to Independence. Macmillan (1978) viii + 293pp. Clean in worn D/W. | £6.00 |
;) ;) | BARCLAYS BANK The British Caribbean Barclays Bank (1960 (circa)) 105pp. Fine in spiral ring binding. Economic overview of the islands with fine colour and B & W photo plates | £16.00 |
;) | BARBADOS The Tourist's guide to Barbados Barbados Improvement Association (1913) xii + 77pp + lii advertisements + plates and folding map. 1st ed., two pages creased otherwise clean in original worn pictorial cloth. Many fine photo plates. Very scarce | £75.00 |
;) | SHEPPARD Jill Red Legs of Barbados: Their Origins and History (the Caribbean, Historical and Cultural Perspectives) KTO Press (1977) 147pp. 1st ed., clean in D/W. | £25.00 |
;) | FRASER Henry A-Z of Barbadian Heritage Heinemann Publishers (Caribbean) (1990) 212 large pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £6.00 |
;) | SKEETE C.C. Garden Book Of Barbados Department of Science and Agriculture, Barbados (1953) 160 + viii pp. Revised ed., couple of notations in margin otherwise clean in worn original cloth. | £15.00 |
;) | FLETCHER W.E.L. The Barbados Railway Journal of the Barbados Museum & Historical Society (May 1961) 12pp + 6 photo illustrations. Article in complete issue of the Journal. | £12.00 |
;) | SINCKLER E. Goulburn The Barbados handbook. Duckworth & Co (1912) xii + 203 + 40pp adverts + plates and map in pocket at front. 1st ed., occasional light foxing otherwise clean in original pictorial blue cloth, spine faded. | £60.00 |
;) | HARLOW Vincent T. Christopher Codrington, 1668-1710 C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, St. Martin,s Press, London & New York (1990) 252pp. Reprint of 1928 ed., clean in original cloth. | £40.00 |
;) | DA COSTA Da Costa's Barbados Illustrated. Historical, descriptive and commercial Dacosta & Co., Barbados (1911) 85pp + map (frontispiece). 1st ed., clean in shaken and worn original pictorial cloth. | £125.00 |
;) | CHRISTIANI & NIELSEN Development of Harbour Facilities in Kingston with a proposal for a Free Port. - A report prepared for the Industrial Development Corporation (1954) 58 + 16 + 21 + drawings and plans. Bound in blue cloth. Fine. Detailed report including proposed new harbour facilities and information on existing free ports around the world. | £75.00 |
;) | ALLEYNE Warren Barbados at War 1939-1945. - An historical account. Barbados (1999) 40pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. Well illustrated history with much on U Boat war. | £6.00 |
Links to other West Indies sites
Family history of Jamaica
http://www.mymynton.com/index.htm
Sources of genealogy and historical information