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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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;) | MATHESON D.L. The Brimstone Hill Fortress. Brief History and story of the development of a restoration soceity to Natiional Park status - 1965-1987 Brimstone Hil Fortress National Park Society (1987) 22pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £8.00 |
;) | INNISS Sir Probyn Historic Basseterre. The story of a West Indian Town. Privately published (1985) 84pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. Historical study. | £12.00 |
;) | CARTY Brenda Anguilla beyond the beaches North Ridge Publishing Co (1993) 29pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. History and guide to the island. | £8.00 |
;) | ANTIGUA The Romance of English Harbour Soceity of the Friends of English Harbour (1954) 32pp + plates. 1st ed., ex library with h/s's on cover otherwise clean. | £7.00 |
;) | STURGE Joseph and HARVEY Thomas The West Indies in 1837; - being the journal of a visit to Antigua, Montserrat, Dominica, St Lucia, Barbadoes, and Jamaica; undertaken for the purpose of ascertaining the actual condition of the negro population of those islands. Frank Cass & Co (1968) ix + 476pp + two folding maps. Facsimile reprint of 1838 ed., fine in stained D/W with staining to end papers. An important work on slavery. | £25.00 |
;) | LANDES, Gaston, Professeur au Lycée Saint-Pierre de la Martinique Colonies et Pays de Protectorats : Martinique PARIS, Imp. Alcan-Lévy - Exposition Universelle 1900, Les colonies françaises (1900) 149pp. 1st ed., clean in slightly worn pictorial card covers. | £60.00 |
;) | HOWARD Richard A. & Elizabeth S. Alexander Anderson's The St. Vincent Botanic Garden Harvard College (1983) 56 + [2]pp + 4 plates. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £15.00 |
;) | HOWARD Richard A. & Elizabeth S. Alexander Anderson's Geography and History of St Vincent, West Indies. Harvard College (1983) 98pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £15.00 |
;) | JESSE Rev. C. Outlines of St Lucia's History St Lucia Archaeological & Historical Society (1986) 99pp. 4th ed., clean in card covers. | £8.00 |
;) | PILGRIM John H. Snippets of St Lucia's History The Standard, Castries, Saint Lucia (1960) 40pp. 1st ed., pages browned otherwise clean in card covers. Very scarce. | £36.00 |
;) | GRIEVE Symington Notes Upon the Island of Dominica (British West Indies); - Containing Information for Settlers, Investors, Tourists, Naturalists, and Others With ... Crown Lands and Import and Export Duties. London: Adam & Charles Black (1906) 126pp + photo plates and folding map. 1st ed., vex library with a few h/s's otherwise clean in worn and shaken original cloth. Good early guide to the island. | £50.00 |
;) | LOWENTHAL David The West Indies Federation: Perspectives on a New Nation (American Geographical Society) Columbia University Press, New York (1961) 142pp. 1st ed., signed by author on compliments slip, fine in D/W. | £10.00 |
;) | ST VINCENT 1877-1997 100th Anniversary Diocese of the Windward Islands. St Vincent (1977) 48 large pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. Chapters on each island | £8.00 |
;) | NICHOLSON Desmond V. The story of English Harbour, Antigua, West Indies Historical & Archaeological Society (1991) 16 large pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £7.00 |
;) | SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH OF CLUNY IN THE CARIBBEAN 150 Years of Witness and Worship 1836-1986 Port of Spain (1986) 123 large pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. | £9.00 |
;) | CRANDALL Donald R. A military history of Montserrat W.I Attacks, fortifications, cannons, defenders 1632-1815 Published by the author (2000) xxvi + 398 large pp. 1st ed., fine in spiral ring binding. | £30.00 |
;) | JINKINS Dana and BOBROW Jill St Vincent and the Grenadines Concepts Publishing (1985) 125 large pp. 1st ed., front end paper with some loss otherwise clean in D/W. Fine colour photo views of the islands. | £4.00 |
;) | STOUTE Edward Barbados: Yesterday and Today: a Collection of Photographs of Old Barbados (Parkinson's Barbados No. 1) Barbadian Heritage Publications Trust, Christ Church, Barbados (1979) 56 large pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. | £8.00 |
;) | 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 |
Links to other West Indies sites
Family history of Jamaica
http://www.mymynton.com/index.htm
Sources of genealogy and historical information