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;) | REDHEAD Wilfred A City On A Hill Letchworth Press (1985) 12opp. 1st ed., clean in worn and slightly creased pictorial card covers. Stories of Grenada. | £24.00 |
;) | JOHNSON Howard After the Crossing: Immigrants and Minorities in Caribbean Creole Society Frank Cass Publishers (1988) 147pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. | £50.00 |
;) | HEUVEL, Eric and MOK Ineke Quaco. Leven in slavernij. Zutphen, Walburg Pers (2015) 64pp. Fine in card covers. Cartoon strip story. Quaco was a boy when he was kidnapped and sold to the captain of a slave ship. He landed in Paramaribo on the estate of the wealthy plantation owner and administrator Walter Kennedy. Quaco became Kennedy's footboy and was later 'lent' to the army captain John Gabriel Stedman, whose task was to hunt down runaway slaves. | £7.00 |
;) | JEREMIE Jean-Jacques and ETNA Max & GRUGEAUX M. Montserrat. Deux ans d'éruption et des poussières Guadalupa, APER Association pur la Prévention et l'Etude des Risques (1998) 181pp + plates. 1st ed., clean in card covers. | £12.00 |
;) | BUFFONGE Cathy Volcano! A Chronicle of Montserrat's Volcanic Experience 1995-96 (1997) 29pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. | £10.00 |
;) | BUFFONGE Cathy Volcano! Book Two. Into the Second Year. Montserrat's Volcanic Experience during 1996 (1997) 42pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. Inscribed by the author on inside cover. | £10.00 |
;) | IRISH J.A. George Alliouagana in Agony. Notes on Montserrat Politics Plymouth, Montserrat (1974) 27pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. | £15.00 |
;) | IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Cotton Cultivation in the West Indies Advocate & Co., Barbados (1914) 118pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. Sea Island cotton | £60.00 |
;) | AKENSON Donald Harman If the Irish ran the World. Montserrat, 1630-1730 McGill-Queen's Uni Press (1997) x + 273pp. 1st ed., foxing to page edges and covers otherwise clean. | £20.00 |
;) | ANON Catalogue of the library of the West India Committee West India Committee, London (1941) 125pp. 1st ed., fine in worn original cloth. Very scarce bibliography with detailed listings by island. | £125.00 |
;) | KRASNOSTEIN David Montserrat the Emerald Isle: A Glimpse from the Past, a Promise for the Future Knish Publishing (1997) 1st ed., light foxing to title page and minor damage to top of spine otherwise clean in D/W. Photographs of the island | £6.00 |
;) | WEBB W.L. Belair Health Centre 1944 - 1951 Kingstown, St Vincent (1954) 32pp. 1st ed., clean in blue card covers. Study of public health on the island. | £15.00 |
;) | BRUSSELL David E. Potions, Poisons and Panaceas: An Ethnobotanical Study of Montserrat Southern Illinois University Press (1997) 176pp. 1st ed., clean in D/W. | £15.00 |
;) | FERGUS Howard A. History of Alliouagana. - A short history of Montserrat. Published by the author (1975) 66pp + map and ads. 1st ed., some tone spotting in original card covers. | £18.00 |
;) | FERGUS Howard A. Montserrat. Emerald Isle of the Caribbean Macmillan Caribbean (1983) 88pp. Clean in card covers. | £6.00 |
;) | ST VINCENT Precis of report by Colonel Bell - on the proposed amalgamation of the Police Forces of the Leeward and Windward Islands. St Vincent (1938 (circa)) 5 large pp. 8 x 13". Marginal tears Good detail including provision of bicycles. | £10.00 |
;) ;) | ANON Bermuda Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1874) 16pp article in complete issue of the magazine. Description of the islands with attractive woodcut engravings. | £12.00 |
;) ;) ;) | BUSHELL John J. Bushell's handbook of Bermuda. - A tourist handbook, guide, Army, Navy and local business directory, shipping handbook and commercial advertiser. J.J. Bushell, Hamilton, Bermuda (1898) 168pp + lxxviii + plates. 1st ed., fine in original creased card covers preserved in later cloth binding. The only copy I have seen of the first edition. | £475.00 |
;) | HERRINGTON N.W. Bermuda. - Isles of rest and enchartment. Herrington Co (1936 (Circa)) 36 large pp. 1st ed., small tear to cover otherwise fine in original card covers. Photo views of the islands. Most attractive. | £60.00 |
;) | BEAN Dr Tarleton H. A Catalogue of the Fishes of Bermuda , with Notes on a Collection made in 1905 for the Field Museum. Field Colombian Museum (1906) paginated 22-89, fine in original grey wrappers. Field Colombian Museum Publications 108 Zoological series vol VII, No 2. | £14.00 |
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