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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 Report for the year 1925. H.M.S.O. (1927) 26pp. Disbound but restitched, clean. | £8.00 |
![]() | JAMAICA Report for the year 1954. H.M.S.O. (1956) 171pp + plates. 1st ed., small library h/s's otherwise clean in card covers. | £18.00 |
![]() | JAMAICA Report for the year 1952. H.M.S.O. (1954) 187pp + plates and folding map. 1st ed., small library h/s's otherwise clean in card covers. | £18.00 |
![]() | JAMAICA Report for the year 1947. H.M.S.O. (1949) 163pp + plates and folding map. 1st ed., clean in card covers. | £24.00 |
![]() | 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 marked and slightly torn D/W. | £25.00 |
![]() | 1820 (22 Jun) An Act to extend several Acts for allowing the importation and exportation of certain goods and merchandize to Morant Bay, in the island of Jamaica H.M.S.O. 3pp. Fine. | £8.00 |
![]() | RUTTER Owen At the Three Sugar Loaves and Crown. A brief history of the firm of Messrs. Davison, Newman & Company - now incorporated with the West Indian Produce Association Limited. Davison, Newman & Co (1938) 39pp + plates. 1st ed., clean in original boards. History of London shop established in 1650 selling West Indian produce. Chapter on Rose Hall Estate in St Thomas in the Vale, Jamaica. | £15.00 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() ![]() | RENNY Robert An history of Jamaica. - With observations on the climate, scenery, trade, productions, negroes, slave trade, diseases of Europeans, customs, manners and dispositions of the inhabitants. J. Cawthorn, London (1807) xx + 333pp + [2] publisher's catalogue + large folding map. 1st ed. 4to, lacking half title, repair to title page, some sporadic light brown staining throughout. Modern half calf with marbled boards. Very scarce. | £525.00 |
![]() | BINNEY Marcus Jamaica's Heritage: An Untapped Resource The Mill Press, Kingston (1991) 88 large pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £18.00 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() ![]() | 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 TOURIST ASSOCIATION Jamaica Official Guide Kingston (1915) ix + 97pp + errata slip tipped in dated October 1st 1915 + adverts. and folding map. 1st ed., fine in paper covers. Includes large folding map of the island by Colin Liddell dated 1895. | £60.00 |
![]() ![]() | DUNCAN Rev. Peter A Narrative of the Wesleyan Mission to Jamaica - With Occasional Remarks on the State of Society. London: Partridge and Oakey (1849) xii + 399pp. 1st ed., a fine clean copy in original blind stamped cloth which has loss to top of spine. Uncut. | £150.00 |
![]() | 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., a little contemporary ink underlining otherwise very clean 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 |
![]() ![]() | 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 |