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Below is a list of my stock of old secondhand and antiquarian books on Cuba for sale.
There are a huge number of books written on Cuba, mostly on the period after 1953. Books on Cuba from the nineteenth century are not so easy to come by.
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.
![]() ![]() | UNITED FRUIT COMPANY The Cuba Railroad U.F.Co (1915 (circa)) Guide to the railway lines with good map and details of the places along the line. Pp 7 - 50 so lacking prelims but a useful item. | £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 |
![]() ![]() | 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 |
![]() | TROLLOPE Anthony The West Indies and the Spanish Main. Frank Cass & Co (1968) iv + 395pp. Facsimile reprint of 2nd ed., fine in original green cloth, spine a little faded. Written by the author while on Post Office business in the West Indies to re-organise the Colonial Post Offices and to undertake postal treaties with the Spanish colonies. Much on Jamaica also chapters on Barbados, Bermuda, Cuba, Trinidad and St Thomas. | £24.00 |
![]() | QUISENBERRY Anderson C. Lopez's Expeditions to Cuba 1850-1851. Filson Club publication no. 21, Louisville (1906) 172 large pp + 12 plates. 1st ed., very fine in original card covers. | £40.00 |
![]() | JOHNSON Buzz Antonio Maceo. Man of action, Statesman and Revolutionary. - A tribute to the Bonze Titan, Cuban Revolutionary. CSC Publication (n.d.) 56pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £15.00 |
![]() | HILL Robert T. Cuba and Porto Rico, with the Other Islands of the West Indies London, T. Fisher Unwin (1898) xix + 429pp + plates + coloured map. 1st U.K. ed., clean in slightly worn pictorial cloth. | £40.00 |
![]() ![]() | DANA Richard Henry To Cuba and back. - A vacation voyage. London (1859) xii + 256pp + 24pp September 1859 publisher's catalogue. 1st ed., couple of small 'Institute of Commonwealth Studies' otherwise clean in worn original blue cloth. Describes the author's impressions of the island. A classic work. | £40.00 |
![]() | CHILCOTE Ronald H. and LUTJENS Sheryl Cuba, 1953-1978: A Bibliographic Guide to the Literature Kraus International Publications (1986) 2 vols. 1387pp. est ed., very fine in fine original blue cloth. | £125.00 |
![]() | HUMBOLDT A. The Island of Cuba, - translated from the Spanish with notes and preliminary essay by J.S. Thrasher. Derby & Jackson, New York (1856) 397pp + folding map + publisher's catalogue. Fine in worn original pink cloth, frayed at top of spine. | £175.00 |
![]() ![]() | KIMBALL R.B. Cuba and the Cubans; - comprising a history of the island of Cuba, its present social, political and domestic condition; also its relation to England and the United States. New York (1850) 255pp + map + publisher's catalogue. 1st ed., minor tone spotting to title page and map and light browning throughout. Some pencil marks in margins. Original worn green blindstamped cloth. | £225.00 |
![]() ![]() | UNDERHILL E.B. The West Indies: - Their Social and Religious Condition. Jackson, Walford and Hodder (1862) x + 493pp. 1st ed., lacking front end papers and prelim., title page with tone spots, in worn original green pictorial cloth, corners bumped. Sections on Bahamas, Cuba, Trinidad, Haiti and Jamaica. The tour described in the book was undertaken at the request of the Treasurer and Committee of the Baptist Missionary Society following emancipation. | £75.00 |
![]() | VALDES N.P. and LIEUWEN E. The Cuban revolution. - A research study guide (1959-1969). Uni. of New Mexico (1971) 230pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Bibliography of 4000 works arranged thematically. | £15.00 |
![]() | STEELE J.W. Cuban sketches. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York (1881) 220pp + publisher's ads. 1st ed., clean in modern red cloth binding. Good description of life on the island. | £65.00 |
![]() | RECKORD B. Does Fidel eat more than your father? - Cuban Opinion. Andre Deutsch (1971) 191pp. 1st ed., clean in D/W. A Jamaican playwright investigates Cuba. | £7.00 |
![]() ![]() | HURLBUT W.H. Pictures of Cuba. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans (1855) viii + 132pp. 1st ed., fine in modern green cloth with marbled boards. Description of the island by an American writer. | £75.00 |
![]() | DURAND C. Cuba. Akoulyo Editions (1993) 160 large pp. Couple of loose pages otherwise fine in pictorial boards. 11 x 10in History and description of the island in French, profusely illustrated with colour photos and reproductions of old views. | £12.00 |
![]() | HARDING DAVIS R. The Cuban and Porto Rican Campaigns. Charles Scribner's, New York (1898) xiii + 360pp + folding map. 1st ed., fine apart from small tear to f.e.p. in original worn pictorial cloth. Illustrated account of the war. | £50.00 |
![]() | CLOES Marie-Noelle Vivre a Cuba. Tournai, Belgium (1968) 205pp. 1st ed., fine in pictorial card covers. Guide to Cuba after the revolution. Profusely illustrated with b & w and colour photos. | £6.00 |
![]() | ALEXANDRE M. On trial. - Fidel Castro/Regis Debray. Lorrimer Pub., London (1968) 111pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Creased corner. Clean. Castro's self defense speech on the Moncada attack. | £3.00 |