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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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;) | LIVINGSTON Noel B. Sketch Pedigrees of Some of the Early Settlers in Jamaica. Compiled from the Records of the Court of Chancery of the Island with a List of the Inhabitants in 1670 and other matters relative to the early History of the same. Jamaica: The Educational Supply Co. (1909) 139pp + iv. 1st ed., toning to end papers and title page otherwise clean in original boards. Very scarce. | £120.00 |
;) ;) | DUNCAN Rev. Peter A Narrative of the Wesleyan Mission to Jamaica - With Occasional Remarks on the State of Society. London: Partridge and Oakey (1849) xii + 399pp. 1st ed., a fine clean copy in original blind stamped cloth which has loss to top of spine. Uncut. | £150.00 |
;) ;) | THOMAS Richard Caddy Letters from the Virgin Islands: - illustrating life and manners in the West Indies. John Van Voorst, London (1843) x + 286pp + map and publisher's catalogue. 1st ed., fine in original blind stamped cloth with new spine and label retaining original end papers. Written anonymously by an English Colonial official and describing island life. Very scarce. | £525.00 |
;) ;) | MONTGOMERY James The West Indies and other poems. London (1810) 160pp. third ed., some light foxing to first few pages otherwise clean in full decorated calf, hinges and top of spine worn. Long poem written in honour of the abolition of the African slave trade by the British Legislature in 1807. | £40.00 |
;) ;) ;) ;) ;) | GODET Theodore L. Bermuda: its history, geology, climate, products, agriculture, commerce, and government, from the earliest period to the present time; with hints to invalids. Smith, Elder & Co., London (1860) xv + 271pp + 16pp publisher's catalogue at rear. 1st ed., contemporary m/s endorsement on title page and on a couple of internal pages otherwise clean in worn original blind stamped cloth, front and rear hinges loose. Very scarce. | £225.00 |
;) ;) | BUSHELL John J. A little story about Bermuda. - Written for those who desire a brief and accurate narrative. Bermuda Furnishing & Supply Co., Hamilton (1905 (circa)) 50pp. 1st ed., clean in original worn card covers. Guide book with 24pp of multi view colour illustrations. | £40.00 |
;) | PIM Commander Bedford Special Number Of 'The Popular Magazine Of Anthropology ' The Negro And Jamaica Read Before The Anthropological Society Of London, February 1, 1866. Trubner & Co., London (1866) vii + 72pp. 1st ed., fine in modern quarter calf. Report of speech delivered in London following the 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion in support of Governor Eyre. | £125.00 |
;) ;) ;) | METHODIST CHURCH For Ever Beginning. - Two Hundred Years of Methodism in the Western Area. Literature Department of the Methodist Church (Jamaica District) (1960) vi + 96pp. 1st ed., clean in worn D/W. Well illustrated history with much on Jamaica and the Turks & Caicos Islands. | £50.00 |
;) | LAWS William Distinction, Death & Disgrace. Governorship of the Leeward Islands in the early Eighteenth Century. Jamaican Historical Society (1976) 100pp. 1st ed., one corner bumped otherwise clean in card covers. | £18.00 |
;) | MATHESON D.L. The Thomas Warner Story Published by the author (1974) 24pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. | £8.00 |
;) | ANDERSON Robert M. The Saint Vincent Handbook Kingstown, St Vincent (1938) 453pp + plates and adverts. 5th ed., fine in original cloth. Rare. | £240.00 |
;) | POMEROY Mary The Island of Nevis. The birthplace of Alexander Hamilton. Privately published (1956) 46pp. 1st ed., fine in pictorial card covers. Guide to the island illustrated with attractive line drawings. | £18.00 |
;) | WATKINS Frederick Henry Handbook of the Leeward Islands. West India Committee (1924) 308pp + plates and folding map. 1st ed., fine in worn and marked original cloth. Descriptions of each of the islands with details of the estates, botanic stations and history. | £80.00 |
;) | SALEWICZ Chris and BOOT Adrian Firefly. Noel Coward in Jamaica. Victor Gollancz (1999) 127pp. 1st ed., very fine in fine D/W. | £5.00 |
;) | 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 |
Links to other West Indies sites
Family history of Jamaica
http://www.mymynton.com/index.htm
Sources of genealogy and historical information