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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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;) | PINTO Geoffrey de Sola Jamaican Houses: A Vanishing Legacy De Sola Pinto Publishers (1993) 40 large pp. Clean in worn card covers. | £7.00 |
;) | ANTIGUA Antigua Independence in Association Antigua Ministry of Social Services (1967) Large booklet on the island, fine in card covers. | £14.00 |
;) | MITCHELL Carleton Islands to Windward: Cruising the Caribbees D. Van Nostrand Co (1955) xvi + 295 large pp + plates. 2nd ed., clean in worn and faded original cloth. Chapters on most of the islands. | £14.00 |
;) | LYNN Bruce G. The Grenadines. Undiscovered Islands of the Caribbean. Dukane Press (1968) Clean in worn D/W. Colour photos of island life. | £4.00 |
;) | WATTERSON Gerald G. Tobago Heritage: Drawings of the Island's Past Published by the author (1993) 57 large pp. 1st ed., fine in original pictorial boards. | £28.00 |
;) | BRUGMAN Dr Ir. Frans H. The Monuments of Saba Walburg Instituut (1995) 168 large pp + cd in rear pocket. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. Study of architecture on the island of Saba | £60.00 |
;) | VERTEUIL Anthony de Western Isles of Trinidad Lithos Press, Trinidad (2006) 270 large pp. Revised ed., fine in pictorial boards. Pictorial history. Recommended. | £24.00 |
;) | HARTLAND Maj. M. A concise and illustrated Military History of Barbados. - 1627 - 2007. Miller Publishing Co., Barbados (2007) 148 large pp. 1st ed., new in card covers. Profusely illustrated history of the West India regiments and Barbados Volunteer Force. Highly recommended. | £10.00 |
;) | HIGMAN B.W. Jamaica Surveyed. - Plantation maps and plans of late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Institute of Jamaica (1988) xv + 307 large pp. Clean in original card covers. Profusely illustrated. Highly recommended. | £50.00 |
;) | WATTERSON Gerald G. Trinidad & Tobago Heritage: Drawings of the Island's Past St Anns (2002) 145 large pp. est ed., fine in original pictorial boards. | £28.00 |
;) | COX John Cameos Of Old Bermuda Orange Valley, Bermuda (2009) ix + 83pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. First hand accounts of life on the islands through the centuries. | £20.00 |
;) | MARRYAT Joseph A Reply to the Arguments contained in various publications, recommending an equalization of the duties on East & West Indian Sugar. London : Printed for J.M. Richardson (1823) 111pp. 1st ed., fine, disbound retaining half title. Marryat was the founder of a large commercial house with interests in the trade of Trinidad. 'Opposes equalization and attempts to prove that East India sugar was a slave, not a free-grown, product. Presents arguments on both sides very fully.' [Ragatz p.308] | £75.00 |
;) ;) | BERMUDA Souvenir Album of Bermuda. Wm. Weiss & Co (1911) 48 large pp. Light toning to first and last pages otherwise fine in original blue cloth. Fine quality photo views of the islands. | £85.00 |
;) ;) ;) | ANON Windward Islands 1902. Quebec Steamship Company Ltd (1902) 40pp. Clean in stained card covers. Advertising brochure with photo views of the islands and descriptions of each one. | £50.00 |
;) ;) | BERMUDA Glimpses of the Summer Isles The Albertype Co., Brooklyn (1910 (circa)) Souvenir booklet containing 15pp of photographs by Louis Mowbray, Art Photographer, St George's. Fine condition in card covers. | £85.00 |
;) ;) | GRANTHAM F.W. Picturesque Bermuda Charles J. Mitchell Co., Ltd, Canada (1910 (circa)) 20 large pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. 2pp of text and 18pp of photo views of the islands. | £60.00 |
;) ;) ;) | WENTWORTH Trelawney The West India Sketch book London: Printed for Whittaker & Co (1834) 2 vols. x + [2] + 324pp + vi + [2] + 391pp + two coloured engraved frontispieces + 10 plates. 1st ed., fine in later half green calf with new end papers. One map with small corner piece missing affecting margin only. An animated account of a several years residence and much travel in the West Indies in the latter part of the 1820's. The author...visited Tortola, St Thomas, St Croix, St Kitts, Nevis, Antigua, Barbados, Montserrat, St Vincent and St Lucia... Presents delightful descriptions of the outward journey, of plantation sociey and industries, of island court procedure, shops, auctions, christmas celebrations and amateur theatricals, in a racy manner.' (Ragatz) | £1,200.00 |
;) | ARNELL Jack C. The Bermuda Maritime Museum and Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda Bermuda Maritime Museum (1979) 48pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £8.00 |
;) | CLARK Brigadier S.F. The Royal Tour Outward Bound. Part One Pitkin Pictorials (1954) 32pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. Includes 6pp on Bermuda and 8pp on Jamaica. | £6.00 |
;) | RIEDEL Ernest C. A Pictorial Trip to Bermuda. Furness Bermuda Line (1930 (circa)) 32pp. Fine in original card covers. | £45.00 |
Links to other West Indies sites
Family history of Jamaica
http://www.mymynton.com/index.htm
Sources of genealogy and historical information