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Showing items in West Indies Books - Jamaica
Below is a list of my stock of old secondhand and antiquarian books on Jamaica for sale.
A large library of books on Jamaica can be formed. The bibliography of books on Jamaica by Frank Cundall is worth acquiring and fortunately a reprint has been published. This book is not in stock at the moment though.
Postage and packing is extra but costs are kept to a minimum. On overseas orders I can offer cheap shipping per airmail M Bag service where total weight is over 1.5kg (3lbs) Cost will be advised after you have submitted your order and before payment is taken.
;) | KAPPEL Philip Jamaica gallery. Little Brown & Co., Boston (1960) 56 large pp. 1st ed., fine in worn D/W. Contains 25 full page etchings depicting typical island life drawn by the author. | £6.00 |
;) | BINNEY Marcus Jamaica's Heritage: An Untapped Resource The Mill Press, Kingston (1991) 88 large pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £18.00 |
;) | JOHNSON Anthony Ocho Rios, St. Ann-Portrait of the Garden Parish Teejay Limited, Kingston, Jamaica (1995) 184 large pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. | £30.00 |
;) | WASHINGTON EVES C. Jamaica at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London, 1886 Spottiswood and Co., London (1886) xii + 100pp + plates and folding map. 1st ed., clean in original worn decorated cloth. Very scarce | £200.00 |
;) ;) | GOSSE Philip Henry A naturalist's sojourn in Jamaica. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans (1851) 508pp + 8 tinted or coloured plates. 1st ed., clean in very worn full calf prize binding. An important early work with most attractive illustrations. | £175.00 |
;) | MARKS Jeannette Family of the Barrett: A Colonial Romance The Macmillan Company (1938) xix + 709pp + plates. 1st ed., slight damp staining and toning in worn and faded original cloth. A good reading copy. The family were some of the first settlers to Jamaica in 1655 | £12.00 |
;) | SOLA PINTO Geoffrey de Jamaican Houses, a vanishing legacy. (1983) 40 large pp + 40 plates. Clean in D/W. | £14.00 |
;) | KING Jacqueline A. The Bi-Centennial Handbook 1779 - 1979 Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (1979) vi + 210 large pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £18.00 |
;) | BUISSERET David Historic Jamaica from the Air Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston (1996) 150 large pp. Fine in D/W. | £18.00 |
;) | ROBERTSON James Gone is the Ancient Glory: Spanish Town, Jamaica, 1534-2000 Ian Randle Publishers (2005) 477pp. clean in slightly worn card covers. | £10.00 |
;) | JACOBS H.P. Sixty Years of Change, 1806-1866. - Progress and Reaction in Kingston and the countryside. Institute of Jamaica (1973) 122pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in good D/W. | £32.00 |
;) | ROBINSON Carey The fighting maroons of Jamaica. William Collins and Sangster (Jamaica) Ltd (1971) 160pp + plates. Clean in worn D/W. | £12.00 |
;) | SIBLEY Inez Knibb Dictionary of Place-Names in Jamaica. Institute of Jamaica (1978) 184pp + photo plates and index. 1st ed., clean in worn card covers. | £30.00 |
;) | STYCOS J. Malone and BACK Kurt W. The control of human fertility in Jamaica Cornell University Press (1964) xii + 377pp. 1st ed., minor foxing to page edges otherwise clean in worn D/W. Birth control | £12.00 |
;) | 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 |
;) ;) | BACON E.M. The new Jamaica. - Describing the island, explaining its conditions of life and growth and discussing its mercantile relations and potential importance. Walbridge & Co, New York (1890) 243pp + plates and two folding maps. Original pictorial cloth fine apart from bumped corners and shaken binding. Attractive woodcut illusts. accompany good guided tour of island. A scarce work. | £60.00 |
;) ;) | STARK James H. Stark's Jamaica Guide (illustrated) - Containing a description of everything relating to Jamaica of which the visitor or resident may desire information. Boston (1902) viii + 209pp + plates, folding maps and ads. 1st ed., clean in worn pictorial cloth. Fine early guide with good photo illustrations and some engraved views. | £60.00 |
;) ;) | CUNDALL Frank Studies in Jamaican History. Sampson Low, Marston and Co (1900) 78pp + plates. 1st ed., some light foxing otherwise clean in worn and marked pictorial cloth. A scarce work with attractive line drawings. | £50.00 |
;) | CUNDALL Frank Catalogue of the portraits in the Jamaica History Gallery of the Institute of Jamaica. Institute of Jamaica (1914) 30 + iv + plates. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £35.00 |
;) | JAMAICA Ministry of Education & Social Welfare Directory Kingston (1953) 46pp. Clean in card covers. | £5.00 |
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COLLETT G.W. and EDWARDS, MORTON & NICHOLSON Jamaica. Its postal history, postage stamps and postmarks. Stanley Gibbons 1928 vi + 248pp. 1st special autographed subscriber's ed. of 120 copies, fine in original quarter morocco Comprehensive handbook, strong on the issued stamps with studies of the 1890 2½d on 4d and 1890 Official overprints.
£75
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DUPERLY Adolphe Court House, Bath, (St Thomas in the East) A. Duperly, Kingston 1844 Lithograph print with full margins, light overall toning. 10.5 x 8.5" From 'Daguerian Excursions in Jamaica, being a collection of Views of the most striking Scenery, public Buildings and other interesting objects, taken on the spot with the Daguerreotype by Adolphe Duperly and lithographed under his direction by the most eminent Artists in Paris.'
£400
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EDUCATIONAL SUPPLY CO. Gordon Town, St Andrew. Jamaica. Early undivided back Jamaica postcard, fine unused. Circa 1902.
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1902 PORT MORANT JAMAICA squared circle postmark on ½d postal stationery card also with Morant Bay cds and Bowden cds. Message headed 'Phillipsfield, Bowden P.O.' Fine.
£12
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COLLETT G.W. and EDWARDS, MORTON & NICHOLSON Jamaica. Its postal history, postage stamps and postmarks. Stanley Gibbons 1928 vi + 248pp. 1st special autographed subscriber's ed. of 120 copies, fine in original quarter morocco Comprehensive handbook, strong on the issued stamps with studies of the 1890 2½d on 4d and 1890 Official overprints.
£75
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DUPERLY Adolphe Court House, Bath, (St Thomas in the East) A. Duperly, Kingston 1844 Lithograph print with full margins, light overall toning. 10.5 x 8.5" From 'Daguerian Excursions in Jamaica, being a collection of Views of the most striking Scenery, public Buildings and other interesting objects, taken on the spot with the Daguerreotype by Adolphe Duperly and lithographed under his direction by the most eminent Artists in Paris.'
£400
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EDUCATIONAL SUPPLY CO. Gordon Town, St Andrew. Jamaica. Early undivided back Jamaica postcard, fine unused. Circa 1902.
£7
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1902 PORT MORANT JAMAICA squared circle postmark on ½d postal stationery card also with Morant Bay cds and Bowden cds. Message headed 'Phillipsfield, Bowden P.O.' Fine.
£12
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