Cuba

ALEXANDRE M. On trial. Fidel Castro/Regis Debray. Lorrimer Pub., London. 1968. 111pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Clean. Castro's self defense speech on the Moncada attack.ALEXANDR016642 £10

BAIRD R. Impressions and experiences of the West Indies and North America in 1849. William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh. 1850. 2 vols. 329 + 315pp + 2 tinted engravings of Cuba. Fine in maroon cloth, some spotting. Greatly expanded from the American ed. Description of travel throughout the islands with good chapters on Antigua, Cuba, Jamaica and St Thomas.BAIRDR001483 £175

BROMLEY A woman's wanderings in the Western World. A series of letters addressed to Sir Fitzroy Kelly, M.P. by his daughter. London. 1861. 299pp + plate and publisher's catalogue. 1st ed., repaired tear to title page and a few minor marks in page margins noted, finely rebound in old cloth retaining orig. label. The author describes her trip through North and South America, Mexico and the West Indies with chapters on most of the islands, with an attractive litho view of the Entrance to Havana.BROMLEY010533 £145

CARLETON G.W. Our artist in Cuba. Fifty drawings on wood. Leaves from the sketch-book of a traveller, during the winter of 1864-5. New York. 1865. viii + 50 single sided pp of pen and ink drawings. Lacking front end paper otherwise fine in fine original decorated green cloth. Humourous character sketches made by the author on his travels in Cuba.CARLETON016538 £65

CHILCOTE R.H. Cuba, 1953 - 1978: a bibliographical guide to the literature. Kraus Int. Pubs. 1986. 2 vols., 1387pp. 1st ed., fine in original cloth. Comprehensive bibliography cross referenced under different themes.CHILCOTE001635 £75

CLARK J.H. Cuba and the Fight for Freedom. Globe Bible Pub. Co. 1896. 512pp + folding map. 1st ed., fine in fine original pictorial cloth. Description of the Spanish American War following the 1868 insurrection in Cuba.CLARKJH016908 £36

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. CLOESMAR011291 £12

COMMISSION OF CUBAN AFFAIRS Problems of the New Cuba. Foreign Policy Association. 1935. xi + 523pp + folding maps. 1st ed., clean in worn red cloth. COMMISSI018102 £18

CUBA Consolidated Railroads of Cuba. Cuba. 1926. Finely engraved share certificate for 30 shares in the company. 13 x 9" Attractive vignette view of steam engine, bullock cart with sugar cane and donkey train.CUBA011499 £25

CUBA Cuba territorio libre de analfabetismo. Cuba. 1981. 101pp + tables. 1st ed., fine in orig. pictorial boards. Illustrated work, some in colour about the revolution. In Spanish.CUBA013420 £10

DANA R.H. To Cuba and back. A vacation voyage. Boston. 1859. viii + 288pp + 16pp April 1859 publisher's catalogue. 1st ed., slight toning to some pages otherwise clean in fine orig. brown cloth. Describes the author's impressions of the island. A classic work.DANARH015384 £75

DAVIES H. The South American Handbook 1931. Trade & Travel Pubs. 1931. 742pp + folding map, fine in faded orig. cloth. Chapters on each country. Includes British Honduras, Cuba and Mexico.DAVIESH007241 £9

DURAND C. Cuba. Akoulyo Editions. 1993. 160 large pp. Couple of loose pages otherwise fine in pictorial boards. 11 x 10" History and description of the island in French, profusely illustrated with colour photos and reproductions of old views.DURANDC011998 £15

ERISMAN H.M. Cuba's International Relations. The anatomy of a nationalistic foreign policy. Westview Press. 1985. 203pp. Paperback. Fine. ERISMANH016306 £5

FAIRFORD F. Cuba. Peeps at many lands. A. & C. Black. 1926. 88pp + 11 col. plates. Clean in orig. cloth. Contains attractive colour paintings of island scenes by Claude Pratt. One of the scarcer titles in the series.FAIRFORD013579 £25

FRAGINALS M.M. The Sugarmill. The Socioeconomic complex of sugar in Cuba 1760-1860. Monthly Review Press. 1976. 182 large pp. 1st ed in English, fine in original pictorial card covers. Good historical study with many attractive line drawings in text.FRAGINAL017663 £40

GRIFFITHS J & P. Cuba, the second decade. Writers & Readers, London. 1982. 272pp. Paperback. Fine. Description of Cuban society since the revolution.GRIFFITH003094 £3

GUNSON P. The dictionary of contemporary politics of Central America and the Caribbean. Routledge. 1991. 397pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Includes much on Cuba, Belize, Jamaica, Panama, Haiti and Trinidad.GUNSONP003185 £9

GURNEY J.J. A winter in the West Indies. Described in familiar letters to Henry Clay, of Kentucky. London. 1840. 282pp + 2 engraved views of Jamaica + printer's ads. 2nd ed., fine in modern half calf. The two plates a little browned and stained as usual. Gurney was a Quaker emancipationist. Chapters on Antigua, Dominica, Jamaica, St Kitts, St Thomas, Tortola and Cuba.GURNEYJJ017623 £140

HALSTEAD M. The story of Cuba. Her struggles for liberty. The cause, crisis and destiny of the Pearl of the Antilles. John K. Hastings, Boston, USA. 1896. 503pp + plates. 1st ed., occasional light tone spots otherwise clean in pictorial cloth. Binding shaken. History of the island.HALSTEAD009815 £75

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 orig. worn pictorial cloth. Illustrated account of the war.HARDINGD014132 £60

HART R. The Cuban Way. Caribbean Labour Solidarity Publication. 1978. 54pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Fine. HARTR016976 £7

HILL R.T. Cuba and Porto Rico with the other islands of the West Indies. Their topography, climate, flora, products, industries, cities, people, political conditions, etc. T. Fisher Unwin, London. 1898. 429pp + plates. 1st ed. Fine in orig. slightly worn cloth. Much on Cuba and Puerto Rico and good sections on Jamaica and Haiti and short descriptions of the other islands with many good photo plates.HILLRT012955 £65

HORN B.O.von Der Orfan auf Cuba. Germany. 1880 (Circa). 128pp + 4 fine col. chromo litho plates. Children's novel set in Cuba. In German.HORNBOVO003300 £30

HUBERMAN L. Socialism in Cuba. Monthly Review Press, New York. 1969. 221pp. 1st ed., fine in worn D/W. Assessment of the progress of Cuba under Castro.HUBERMAN005853 £8

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. HUMBOLDT018150 £175

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.HURLBUTW015409 £95

JAY W.M.L. My winter in Cuba. E.P. Dutton & Co., New York. 1871. vi + 296pp + adverts. 1st ed., clean in original green decorated cloth. Octavo. Description of the domestic side of Cuban life as seen by the author.JAYWML018154 £120

JONES C.L. The Caribbean since 1900. Prentice-Hall, Inc., New York. 1936. 511pp. 1st ed., ex libre still very good in orig. cloth. Political history of the region with chapters devoted to Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic and Latin American countries.JONESCL010509 £20

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 very worn green blindstamped cloth. KIMBALLR018161 £225

LEAF E. Isles of rhythm. A.S. Barnes & Co., New York. 1948. 211pp. 1st ed., fine in original cloth. Enthusiastic study of dance in the Caribbean, profusely illust. with photos by the author. Chapters on Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica Virgin Is. and Trinidad.LEAFE018084 £35

LESTER G. In sunny seas: chapters treating chiefly of the Bahama islands and Cuba. London. 1897. xv + 144pp + plates. 1st ed., occasional light foxing otherwise fine in faded red pictorial cloth. Description of life in Methodist missions on the islands with good photo plates by J.F. Coonley.LESTERG018301 £120

LEVINE B.B. The New Cuban Presence in the Caribbean. Westview Press. 1983. xii + 274pp. Paperback. Clean. LEVINEBB016643 £5

MACEWAN A. Revolution and economic development in Cuba. Macmillan. 1981. 265pp. 1st ed., ex libre with labels on inside covers and one h/s on rear of title page otherwise clean in D/W. Written from a Marxist perspective the author charts the changes before and after 1959.MACEWANA010202 £8

MACKIE J.M. From Cape Cod to Dixie and the Tropics. New York. 1864. 422pp. 1st ed., lightly browned throughout otherwise clean in worn original cloth. Includes chapters on the Bahamas, Bermuda and Cuba.MACKIEJM018162 £60

MCINTOSH Burr The Little I saw of Cuba. F. Tennyson Neely. 1899. 173pp. 1st ed., oblong 8 x 6" Fine in original brown pictorial cloth. Description of the Spanish American war profusely illustrated with photos.MCINTOSH017640 £48

MEEKS B. Caribbean Revolutions and Revolutionary Theory. An Assessment of Cuba, Nicaragua and Grenada. Warwick Uni. Caribbean Studies. 1993. 210pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Fine. MEEKSB017195 £8

McQUADE J. The cruise of the Montauk to Bermuda, the West Indies and Florida. Thomas R. Know & Co., New York. 1885. xv + 441pp + engraved plates. Tone spotting to frontispiece otherwise very clean in original pictorial cloth, front hinge shaken. Description of cruise calling at Bermuda, St Kitts, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Trinidad, Curacao, Jamaica and Cuba, illustrated with attractive wood engravings.MCQUADEJ017991 £90

NORTON A.J. Norton's complete hand-book of Havana and Cuba containing full information for the tourist, settler, and investor; also an account of the American military occupation. Rand McNally & Co., Chicago. 1900. 324pp + plates and folding map. 1st ed., fine in slightly worn original cloth. NORTONAJ018160 £95

PARKINSON F. Latin America, the Cold War, and the World Powers, 1945-1973. Sage Publications. 1974. 288pp. Paperback. Rather worn. Much on Cuban revolution.PARKINSO017065 £4

PARSONS A. A winter in paradise. A.M. Philpot Ltd. 1926. ix + 227pp + [2] publisher's list. 2nd impression, otherwise clean in worn orig. cloth. An uncommon title. The author describes his winter abroad with a cruise from U.S.A. to Havana, Florida and Nassau. Illustrated with photo plates. Good description of life in Nassau.PARSONSA017551 £40

PATRICK T. Holiday Vol. 5, No. 2 Curtis Pub. Co., Philadelphia. 1949. 134 large pp. Fine in paper covers. Magazine with articles featuring the West Indies. Fine coloured photo views of Cuba, also Haiti, Jamaica and Puerto Rico plus many good adverts.PATRICKT009050 £10

QUESADA G. de The war in Cuba being a full account of her great struggle for freedom. Containing a complete record of Spanish tyranny and oppression scenes of violence and bloodshed; daring deeds of Cuban heroes and patriots, thrilling incidents of the conflict.. Liberty Co., U.S.A. 1896. 544pp. 1st ed., lacking folding map otherwise clean in worn pictorial cloth. Well illustrated history.QUESADAG017642 £18

RECKFORD 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.RECKFORD016623 £10

SARDUY P.P. Afrocuba. An anthology of Cuban writing on race, politics and culture. Latin American Bureau. 1993. 309pp. Paperback. Clean. SARDUYPP017080 £5

SCOTT M. Tom Cringle's log. William Blackwood & Sons. 1862. vi + [2] + 528pp + frontispiece and 18 plates. Very fine in decorated green calf with raised bands. The author was a Scotsman who went to Jamaica in 1806. Although a work of fiction this work is based on personal knowledge of island life and gives a vivid picture of the old plantation days. Also includes section set in Cuba.SCOTTM016880 £80

SMITH W.S. The Closest of Enemies. A personal and diplomatic history of the Castro years. W.W. Norton & Co, New York. 1987. 308pp. 1st ed., clean in D/W. U.S. foreign policy towards Cuba.SMITHWS016629 £4

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.STEELEJW010089 £95

STRODE H. The pageant of Cuba. Jarrolds. 1935. 318pp + 15 plates. 1st English ed., some minor tone spotting, in orig. green cloth. Good history of the island with attractive photo plates.STRODEH006016 £12

TALBOYS W.P. West India pickles. Diary of a cruise through the West Indies in the yacht Josephine. New York. 1876. 209pp. 2nd ed. SLightly browned otherwise clean in original pictorial cloth. The author visited St Thomas, Saba, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St Lucia, Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, St Domingo and Cuba and recounts his experiences. Illustrated with attractive engraving in text. TALBOYSW018068 £85

TROLLOPE A. The West Indies and the Spanish Main. Chapman & Hall. 1860. 371pp. 6th ed., contents shaken and very loose in very worn original cloth, spine 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.TROLLOPE018222 £50

TURNBULL D. Travels in the West. Cuba with notices on Porto Rico, and the Slave Trade. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 1840. xvi + 574pp + publisher's catalogue + frontispiece map. 1st ed., title page and frontispiece browned and small biro marks on title page otherwise very clean in modern quarter calf with new end papers. Key work on Cuba and the slave trade especially in relation to America, produced by the British Consul at Havana.TURNBULL018010 £190

TURTON P. Jose Marti. Architect of Cuba's freedom. Zed Books. 1986. 157pp. Paperback. Fine. TURTONP016308 £8

VALDES N.P. 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.VALDESNP005795 £25

VERRILL A.H. The book of the West Indies. E.P. Dutton & Co., New York. 1919. 458pp + plates. 2nd ed., fine in orig. cloth. Good descriptions of all of the islands with much on Cuba, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.VERRILLA006023 £45

WILLETTS P. The non-aligned in Havana. Documents of the sixth summit conference and an analysis of their significance for the global political system. Frances Pinter, London. 1981. xvii + 283pp. 1st ed., clean in faded D/W. WILLETTS016704 £8

WILSON T. Transatlantic sketches; or Traveling Reminiscences of the West Indies and United States. Montreal. 1860. 179pp. 1st ed., inscribed by the author on front end paper, clean in worn original cloth. Chapters on Cuba and Trinidad with much on sugar cultivation and social life in Havana.WILSONT018157 £225

WOLLASTON N. Red Rumba A journey through the Caribbean and Central America. Hodder & Stoughton. 1962. 231pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in worn D/W. Good travel book in which the author describes his four and half month visit to the Caribbean. Includes account of Cuba, Dominican Republic shortly after the assassination of President Trujillo and Haiti.WOLLASTO005426 £8