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![]() | ELKINTON Thomas A Cruise among the Windward Islands: Being ten letters published to a friend, 1885 Leopold Classic Library (n.d.) 71pp. Facsimile reprint of 1885 ed. Fine in card covers. | £8.00 |
![]() | OBER Frederick A. Camps in the Caribbees: The Adventures of a Naturalist in the Lesser Antilles Lightning Source (n.d.) 93pp. Reprint of C19th edition. Clean in card covers. | £6.00 |
![]() | ALLSOPP Richard Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage - with a French and Spanish supplement. Uni of West Indies Press (2003) lxxviii + 697pp. Very fine in card covers. | £22.00 |
![]() | BUTTERWORTH William Three Years Adventures, of a Minor, in England, Africa, the West Indies, South Carolina and Georgia Kessinger Publishing (2010) 492pp. Facsimile reprint of 1822 ed., fine in card covers. | £10.00 |
![]() | KNIGHT Franklin W. UNESCO General History of the Caribbean - Volume III: Slave Societies of the Caribbean UNESCO Publishing (1997) xvi + 379pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £30.00 |
![]() | ROSS Jacob Song for Simone and Other Stories Karia Press (1986) 126pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. Collection of stories set in Grenada. | £6.00 |
![]() | HUMFREY Michael No Tears for Massa's Day (A Novel of the West Indies) London: John Murray (1987) 192pp. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. | £12.00 |
![]() | HAMILTON Douglas J. Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1750-1820 Manchester University Press (2010) 249pp. Fine in card covers. | £12.00 |
![]() ![]() ![]() | LABAT R.P. Voyages aux Isles de L'Amerique - (Antilles) 1693-1705. Editions Duchartre, Paris (1931) 2 vols., 355 + 478pp + plates. Clean in original slightly stained card covers. Early description of the New World with many fine plates. | £40.00 |
![]() | MOITT Bernard Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848 Indiana University Press (2001) 217pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £14.00 |
![]() | BECKLES Dr Hilary and SHEPHERD Verene Caribbean Slave Society and Economy - A Student Reader The New Press , New York (1991) x + 480pp. Fine in fine D/W. | £12.00 |
![]() | BUSH Barbara Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650-1838 James Currey (1990) xiii + 190pp. Fine in card covers. | £10.00 |
![]() | HIGMAN B.W. Slave populations of the British Caribbean 1807-1834. John Hopkins Uni. Press (1995) xxxiii + 781pp. Clean in creased card covers. Academic study. | £8.00 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | MACPHERSON Sir John Development and Welfare in the West Indies 1945-46 H.M.S.O. (1947) 162pp. 1st ed., small Colonial Office Library h/s otherwise clean in card covers. | £8.00 |
![]() | LUKE Sir Harry Development and Welfare in the West Indies 1955-1956 H.M.S.O. (1956) 140pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. | £8.00 |
![]() | LUKE Sir Harry Development and Welfare in the West Indies 1955-1956 H.M.S.O. (1956) 140pp. 1st ed., small Colonial Surveys h/s on cover otherwise clean in card covers. | £8.00 |
![]() ![]() | HOARE Prince Memoirs of Granville Sharp, Esq.: Composed from his Own Manuscripts, and Other Authentic Documents in the Possession of his Family and of the African Institution London: Printed for Henry Colburn and Co (1820) xxxii + 524pp + xxxiii. 1st ed., fine in original half calf, front board detached and marbled boards with some loss. Granville Sharp (1735-1813) was a British campaigner for the abolition of the slave trade. He founded the St George's Bay Company, a forerunner of the Sierra Leone Company to settle black people there. | £750.00 |