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Below is a list of my stock of old secondhand and antiquarian books on St Kitts Nevis and Anguilla for sale.
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.
;) | JOHNSTON J.R.V. The Stapleton sugar plantations in the Leeward Islands. John Rylands Library, Manchester (1965) 32pp. Reprint from the bulletin, fine in card covers. History of the Stapleton family sugar estates on Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis and St Christopher. | £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 |
;) ;) ;) | HANNAH Rev J. The Story of the Wreck of the Maria Mail Boat: - with a memoir of Mrs Hincksman, the only survivor. Wesleyan Conference Office London (1890 (circa)) 96pp + 3 plates and engraved frontispiece. Occasional stains otherwise clean in original cloth. Description of the loss of the mail boat Maria off the coast of Antigua in 1826. | £45.00 |
;) | COTNER Janet A Motoring Guide to St Kitts Heidelberg Press (1981) 42pp + 4pp insert. Fine in card covers. | £15.00 |
;) ;) | 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 |
;) ;) | 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 |
;) | ST CHRISTOPHER An Act to authorize the employment of convicts - on Works of Public Utility without the walls of the Common Gaol. No 706 St Christopher (1852) 2 large pp. Overall toning. 8 x 12½" A rare locally printed Act of Parliament. | £40.00 |
;) | ST CHRISTOPHER An Act to authorize the appointment of Commissioners - and to empower them to construct a New Church in the Parish of Saint George, Basseterre, capable of accomodating One Thousand Fice Hundred Persons, for said purposes to grant the sum of Three Thousand Six Hundred and Fifty Five pounds, and to repeal an act intituled inAn Act to authorize the Vestry of the Parish of Saint George, Basseterre, to take down the Church of the said Parish, and to build a new church in a convenient situation within the Churchyard of the said Parish of Saint George, Basseterre. No. 720 St Christopher (1855) 2 large pp. Overall toning. 8 x 12½" A rare locally printed Act of Parliament. | £40.00 |
;) | ST CHRISTOPHER An Act to provide Summary Redress in cases of Minor Trespasses. - No 721 St Christopher (1855) 2 large pp. Overall toning. 8 x 12½in A rare locally printed Act of Parliament. | £50.00 |
;) | ST CHRISTOPHER An Act further to encourage the immigration of Agricultural labourers. - No 732 St Christopher (1856) 1 large pp. Overall toning. 8 x 12½" A rare locally printed Act of Parliament. Adding Cape Verde Islands to the places from which immigrants may be obtained. | £40.00 |
;) ;) | 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 |
;) ;) | OLIVER V.L. The registers of St Thomas, Middle Island, St Kitts. - Baptisms 1729 to 1814, marriages 1729 to 1832, burials 1729 to 1802. Mitchell Hughes & Clarke (1915) 64 large pp. 1st ltd. ed. of 200 copies. Fine in original red cloth. Supplement to Caribbeana, Vol. IV. | £275.00 |
;) | JEAFFRESON J.C. A Young Squire of the Seventeenth Century. - From the Papers (A.D. 1676-1686) of Christopher Jeaffreson, of Dullingham House, Cambridgeshire. London: Hurst and Blackett (1878) 2 vols. xxii + 329pp + xiv + 338pp + publisher's ads. 1st ed., fine in fine decorative cloth. Christopher Jeaffreson was, with Thomas Warner, who originated the scheme, the man who was responsible for drawing up the plans for the colonisation of St Kitts. A very scarce biography, with information on Barbados, and primarily, St Kitts. | £275.00 |
;) | HORSFORD Jim From sugar cane to scenic train. - The St Kitts Railway. Paul Catchpole Ltd. (2004) 64 large pp. 1st ed., new in pictorial card covers. Profusely illustrated history of this railway which was originally designed to transport sugar cane from all parts of the island to the central factory but has now been converted to carry tourists around the island. | £10.00 |
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WEST INDIES West Indian civil censorship devices in World War II. Roses Caribbean handbook no. 2 1977 102 large pp, 1st ed., fine in card covers. Ltd. ed. of 250.
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WEST INDIA COMMITTEE The Call of the Leeward Islands British West Indies. S.J. Hayward, Montreal 1950 (circa) 6pp folding tourist leaflet. Fine. Also 6d Admission ticket to Brimstone Hill.
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V.E. JOHN The Church of The Immaculate Conception, Basseterre, St Kitts, B.W.I. Old St Kitts postcard, circa 1910, clean unused.
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1937 R.M.S. LADY NELSON POSTED ON THE HIGH SEAS cachet on cover with Grenada coronation set cancelled by pen crosses as St Kitts did not have a Paquebot mark till 1949.
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WEST INDIES West Indian civil censorship devices in World War II. Roses Caribbean handbook no. 2 1977 102 large pp, 1st ed., fine in card covers. Ltd. ed. of 250.
£15
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WEST INDIA COMMITTEE The Call of the Leeward Islands British West Indies. S.J. Hayward, Montreal 1950 (circa) 6pp folding tourist leaflet. Fine. Also 6d Admission ticket to Brimstone Hill.
£16
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V.E. JOHN The Church of The Immaculate Conception, Basseterre, St Kitts, B.W.I. Old St Kitts postcard, circa 1910, clean unused.
£6
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1937 R.M.S. LADY NELSON POSTED ON THE HIGH SEAS cachet on cover with Grenada coronation set cancelled by pen crosses as St Kitts did not have a Paquebot mark till 1949.
£8
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