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Below is a list of my stock of old secondhand and antiquarian books on Grenada for sale.
The small guide book on Grenada by Kay is worth having and the large dossier of documents on the prelude to the U.S. invasion of the island makes incredible reading. There is a good website done by a customer of mine on the revolution which I can recommend. Go to:- http://www.thegrenadarevolutiononline.com
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DEVAS R.P. The history of the island of Grenada, 1498-1796. With some notes and comments on Carriacou and events of later years. Grenada. 1964. 214pp + loose errata page. 1st ed., fine in pale blue card covers. DEVASRP017291 £40
GILMORE W.C. The Grenada Intervention. Analysis and Documentation. Mansell Publishing Ltd. 1984. 116pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Fine. GILMOREW017199 £5
HIGGINS H.H. Notes by a field naturalist in the Western Tropics. From a journey kept on board the Royal Mersey steam yacht 'Argo.' Liverpool. 1877. 205pp + plates and folding map of harbour of Nassau, Bahamas. 1st ed., very fine in orig. slightly faded decorated cloth. Description of a natural history expedition to the West Indies. Fine delicate litho views of Grenada, Paradise Estate, Trinidad (4), Carthagena and Jamaica. Very scarce.HIGGINSH014806 £250
HMSO Journal of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations from January 1764 to December 1767, preserved in the Public Record Office. London. 1936. viii + 484pp. 1st ed., ex library with small h/s's on end paper and title page otherwise very fine in original blue blind stamped cloth. 7 x 10.5" Much on the West Indies, particularly the islands of Bermuda, Grenada and Jamaica.HMSO016600 £45
HOOKER J.D. Suggestions for the information of Colonial Governments about to appoint Superintendents of Botanic Gardens, and for the guidance of the Superintendents themselves. Kew, London. 1880. 2pp. 8 x 13" Oval hand-stamp of Lieutenant Governors Office Grenada a top. HOOKERJD019138 £6
HUMFREY M. Portrait of a sea urchin. A Caribbean childhood. Collins & Harvill. 1979. 208pp. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. Fine, well written, description of life in Grenada between the two world wars.HUMFREYM005451 £9
KAY F. This is Grenada. Carenage Press. 1971. 180pp + ads. Reprint ed., fine in card covers. Useful guide book illust. by attractive line drawings.KAYF010877 £8
MARTIN R. MONTGOMERY History of the West Indies: comprising Jamaica, Honduras, Trinidad, Tobago, Grenada, the Bahamas, and the Virgin Isles + Vol 2 comprising British Guiana, Barbadoes, St Vincents, St Lucia, Dominica, Montserrat, Antigua, St Christophers, &c. London. 1844. xxxvi + 308 small pp + engraved plate + viii + engraved plate and two folding maps. Fine in worn orig. cloth. Vol. IV and V of Montgomery's British Colonial Library but complete in itself. Good descriptions of each of the islands mentioned in the titles with attractive engraved views of Kingston, Jamaica and Kingstown, St Vincent.MARTINRM017732 £225
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
O'SHAUGHNESSY H. Grenada: an eyewitness account of the U.S. invasion and the Caribbean history that provoked it. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. 1984. 261pp + plates. Ex libre, still fine in D/W. Description of the 1983 invasion.OSHAUGHN005616 £12
PAYNE A. Grenada, Revolution and Invasion. Croom Helm. 1984. 233pp. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. PAYNEA017026 £16
SEABURY P. The Grenada Papers. The inside story of the Grenada revolution and the making of a totalitarian state - as told in captured documents. ICS Press. 1984. 346pp. Large Paperback. Clean. SEABURYP017030 £3
SEARLE C. In Nobody's Backyard. Maurice Bishop's Speeches: 1979-1983. A memorial volume. Zed Books. 1984. 260pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Fine. SEARLEC016884 £8
SMITH M.G. The plural society in the British West Indies. Uni. of California Press. 1965. 359pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Study of society and its cultural background with much on slavery particularly in Jamaica and Grenada in the 1950's.SMITHMG005761 £30
SUNSHINE C. Grenada. The Peaceful Revolution. EPICA Task Force. 1982. 132 large pp. 1st ed., fine in pictorial card covers. Illustrated history of the 1979 revolution in which the New Jewel Movement overthrew the Gairy government.SUNSHINE017011 £12
THORNDIKE T. Grenada. Politics, Economics and Society. Francis Pinter. 1985. xxii + 206pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Clean. THORNDIK017015 £15
VAQUERO Life and Adventures in the West Indies. A sequel to Adventures in search of a living in Spanish America. John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Ltd., London. 1914. xiii + 284pp + photo plates, coloured frontispiece and maps. 1st ed., very good with usual foxing, mostly confined to page edges and end papers, in original red cloth. The author visited Cayman Islands (24pp + 6 photo views), Jamaica, Haiti, Barbados, St Lucia, Martinique, Grenada, Dominica, Montserrat, St Kitts, Saba, St Thomas and Trinidad. Well written and with very fine photo plates.VAQUERO017582 £320