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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.
;) ;) ;) | JAMAICA AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY The Farmer's Guide Jamaica Agricultural Society (1962) 1053pp + xxi. Revised ed., very fine in full green calf in slipcase. A presentation copy to the Governor General of Jamaica, Sir Kenneth Blackstone. Detailed guide to growing crops in Jamaica with many advertisements. | £125.00 |
;) | 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 |
;) | SALEWICZ Chris and BOOT Adrian Firefly. Noel Coward in Jamaica. Victor Gollancz (1999) 127pp. 1st ed., very fine in fine D/W. | £5.00 |
;) | 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 |
;) | PINTO Geoffrey de Sola Jamaican Houses: A Vanishing Legacy De Sola Pinto Publishers (1993) 40 large pp. Clean in worn card covers. | £7.00 |
;) | 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 |
;) ;) | TROLLOPE Anthony The West Indies and the Spanish Main. Chapman & Hall, London (1860) iv + 371pp + folding map. 4th ed., clean in worn original blind stamped cloth. Written by the author while on Post Office business in the West Indies to re-organise the Colonial Post Offices and to undertake postal treaties with the Spanish colonies. Much on Jamaica also chapters on Barbados, Bermuda, Cuba, Trinidad and St Thomas. | £120.00 |
;) | CAMPBELL Mavis C. The Maroons of Jamaica. - 1655-1796 Bergin & Garvey Publishers (1988) vi + 296pp. 1st ed., foxing to page edges otherwise clean in discoloured original boards. | £40.00 |
;) ;) | GREY Earl The Colonial Policy of Lord John Russell's Administration. Richard Bentley, London (1853) 2 vols. xxvii + 447pp + xii + 508pp. 2nd revised and enlarged ed., clean in modern half calf with marbled boards and new end papers. Faint library h/s on title pages only. Good sections on Guiana, Jamaica, St Lucia and Trinidad and sections on other countries within the Commonwealth. | £200.00 |
;) ;) | BAIRD Robert Impressions and Experiences of the West Indies and North America in 1849 William Blackwood & Sons (1850) 2 vols. bound in one, vi + 329pp + iv + 315pp + two tinted frontispieces. 1st ed., remarkably clean copy with no foxing, bound in modern quarter calf with marbled boards. Vol 1 gives the author's impressions as he travelled through the Caribbean islands with good sections on Antigua, Cuba, Jamaica, St Kitts Nevis and St Thomas while Vol 2 is concerned with the U.S.A. | £175.00 |
;) | PULLEN BURY B. Jamaica as it is , 1903. T. Fisher Unwin, London (1903) xiv + 240pp + plates and map. 1st ed., lacking end papers otherwise mostly clean with just minor foxing in original slightly worn original cloth. | £36.00 |
;) | GOSSE Philip H. Gosse's Jamaica, 1844-45 Institute of Jamaica (1984) xv + 195pp + plates. 1st ed., clean in faded D/W. | £12.00 |
;) | JAMAICA Friends of the Georgian Society of Jamaica 2010 Tour F.G.S.J. (2010) 26 large pp. Fine in D/W. Colour photos and line drawings of Georgian architecture in Jamaica. | £15.00 |
;) | SMITH May Jeffrey Bird watching in Jamaica. Pioneer Press, Kingston (1956) 159pp + plates (some in colour), 1st ed., some tone spotting, pages thumbed but a scarce work. Attractive illustrations by the author's daughter (?) | £6.00 |
;) | ROBERTSON E. Arnot The Spanish Town Papers: Some Sidelights on the American War of Independence. Cresset Press (1959) 199pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in worn D/W. | £5.00 |
;) | METCALF George Royal Government and Political Conflict in Jamaica 1729-1783 Longmans (1965) xii + 256pp + plates. 1st ed., with bookplate of Lesley Lewis, fine in fine D/W. | £24.00 |
;) | BINNEY Marcus Jamaica's Heritage: An Untapped Resource The Mill Press, Kingston (1991) 88 large pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £25.00 |
;) | PHILLIPPO James M. Jamaica: its past and present state. John Snow, London (1843) xvi + 485pp + 8 of 10 engraved plates. 1st ed. mostly clean but with some foxing on plates in original blue cloth, rebacked with some loss of original spine. Sadly missing two plates. The author was a Baptist missionary who spent 20 years in Jamaica. Geographical, historical and social surveys are included but greatest value lies in his description of the religious state of the island. | £40.00 |
;) | BLACK Clinton V. Spanish Town: The Old Capital Parish Council Of St. Catherine, Spanish Town, Jamaica (1960) 63pp. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. | £24.00 |
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