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Below is a list of my stock of old secondhand and antiquarian books on Dominica for sale.
Notes on Dominica books:-
The earliest history of the island is Thomas Atwood's 'History of Dominica' published in 1791. There are some fine early guide books to Dominica produced in the late C19th promoting the island to European settlers.
There is a new website with much information on the history and culture of the island which I am pleased to recommend, apart from the suggestion that you purchase books from Amazon:- http://www.lennoxhonychurch.com
Another new website features music from the island and is well worth a look http://www.sunsworksmedia-uk.com
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.
![]() | PHILLIP C.G. Dominica. Precis of information for the use of visitors to the island. Issued by the Tourists' Information Bureau Bulletin Office, Roseau (1928 (circa)) 8pp + 2pp adverts. 1st ed., clean in paper covers, detached. Very rare. | £160.00 |
![]() | GURNEY J.J. A winter in the West Indies. - Described in familiar letters to Henry Clay, of Kentucky. London (1841) 282pp + 2 engraved views of Jamaica + printer's ads. 3rd ed., very clean apart from the two plates which are toned as usual, in original blind stamped cloth with bumped corners not affecting pages and defect to top of spine. Gurney was a Quaker emancipationist. Chapters on Antigua, Dominica, Jamaica, St Kitts, St Thomas, Tortola and Cuba. | £75.00 |
![]() | 1860 (6 Aug) An Act to authorize an extension of the time for repayment of a loan made by the West India Relief Commissioners to the island of Dominica London 2pp. Fine. | £5.00 |
![]() | 1867 (12 Aug) An Act to authorize an alteration in the mode of repayment of a loan made by the West India Relief Commissioners to the island of Dominica. London 2pp. Fine. | £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. London (1838) ix + 476pp + two folding maps. 1st ed., a clean copy rebound in modern cloth An important work on slavery. | £175.00 |
![]() ![]() | ST JOHNSTON Sir Reginald From a Colonial Governor's Note-Book. Hutchinson & Co, London (1936) 285pp + plates. 1st ed., minor tone spotting to first few pages otherwise clean in original blue cloth. The author recounts his time in office as Acting Governor of the Falkland Is., Administrator in Dominica and St Kitts and Governor of the Leeward Islands. | £70.00 |
![]() | CARIBNET Journal of the Caribbean Studies International Network. - Issue 3 University of London (2000) 72 large pp. Fine in card covers. Includes article on Caribs in Dominica. | £15.00 |
![]() | HOUSE OF COMMONS Appendix to the reports. H.M.S.O. (1814 (circa)) 1st ed., clean in modern boards with cloth spine. Eye-witness testimony from customs officers in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Barbados, St Lucia, St Vincent, Dominica and Martinique. Very detailed. Includes John Prescod Williams, collector of customs at Hole Town, Barbados and Charles Kydd Bishop in Speights-town. | £60.00 |
![]() | TAYLOR Douglas The Caribs of Dominica. Smithsonian Institution, Washington (1938) 50pp + 6 plates. Reprint from bulletin 119 of the Bureau of American Ethnology. Clean in original brown card covers. Detailed anthropological study. | £30.00 |
![]() | JAMAICA Annexation of St Domingo. - Copy of a memorial addressed to the Secretary of State from Jamaica. H.M.S.O. (1861) 2 large pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Following fears of a Spanish takeover in the Republic. Spain was still a slave holding power. | £7.00 |
![]() | MYERS R.A. Dominica. - Volume 82. Clio Press (1987) xxv + 190pp + map. 1st ed., clean in pictorial boards. Detailed bibliography to books and articles on the island. | £32.00 |
![]() ![]() | OLIVER V.L. The monumental inscriptions of the British West Indies. Dorchester (1927) 267 large pp. 1st ed., fine in original cloth. Record of inscriptions on headstones found in graveyards of Antigua, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, Trinidad & Tobago and Br Guiana plus military graveyards throughout all the islands. An important work. | £120.00 |
![]() | DOMINICA Dominica Chronicle - Vol V No 4 to Vol V No 294 Roseau (1918) Newspapers bound in later blue cloth. Pages browned and some very fragile. Some have suffered loss. News on the war plus interesting local adverts. | £120.00 |
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