Jamaica

1800 (Circa) Letter to His Excellency the Governor of Jamaica written in French. Orig. M/S. 1800. The writer is applying to rejoin his associate in Jeremie (Haiti) where he had been a resident since 1792. He offers to swear an oath of allegiance and submission to the laws of his government. Two pages, lacking address panel. Fine. Together with English translation.1800CIRC008153 £40

1815 The National Register. London. 1815. No. 416, Monday, December 18, 1815 and Dec 25th newspapers. 32pp. News of hurricane in Jamaica with names of ships lost and destruction of coffee estates, deaths of people carried away by Yallahs river, etc.1815008160 £15

1820 (circa) JAMAICA Orig. M/S. 1820. 'Inventory and appraisement of stock, slaves, plantation utensils and produce on Gibraltar plantation.' 4pp original m/s. Worn along folds. Lists 266 slaves by name and value. This plantation was situated in St Marys Parish.1820CIRC006708 £200

1820 (circa) JAMAICA Orig. M/S. 1820. 'Inventory and appraisement of slaves, settled on Baylys vale land and intended as a jobbing gang.' Also 'Inventory and appraisement of sugar, rum, provisions and plantation stores and utensils at Portmaria Bay.' 2pp orig. m/s. Lists slaves by name and value. Estate in St Marys parish.1820CIRC006710 £200

1820 (circa) JAMAICA Orig. M.S. 1820. 'Inventory and appraisement of slaves, stock, plantation utensils and produce on Trinity plantation.' 4pp orig. m/s. Lists 280 slaves by name and value. Estate in St Marys parish.1820CIRC006711 £200

AMPHLETT J. Under a Tropical Sky. A journal of first impressions of the West Indies. London. 1873. xii + 179pp + engraved frontispiece. 1st ed., a few minor tone spots otherwise mostly clean in original brown cloth, slightly shaken. Written by a British barrister with good descriptions of Barbados, British Guiana and Jamaica. A very scarce work.AMPHLETT018295 £320

ARAWAK C. Jamaica's Michael Manley. Messiah....Muddler... or Marionette. Sir Henry Morgan Press, Florida. 1980. 232pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Very good. Attack on Manley's 'Democratic Socialism' policy. Very scarce.ARAWAKC017081 £30

BACON E.M. The new Jamaica. Describing the island, explaining its conditions of life and growth and discussing its mercantile relations and potential importance. Walbridge & Co, New York. 1890. 243pp + plates and two folding maps. Orig. pictorial cloth fine apart from bumped corners and shaken binding. Attractive woodcut illusts. accompany good guided tour of island. A scarce work.BACONEM014273 £80

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

BARCLAY A. A practical view of the present state of slavery in the West Indies; or, an examination of Mr Stephen's Slavery of the British West India Colonies: containing more particularly an account of the actual condition of the negroes of Jamaica: with observations on the decrease of slaves since abolition of the slave trade, and on the probable effects of legislative emancipation: also strictures on the Edinburgh Review, and on the pamphlets of Mr Cooper and Mr Bicknell. London. 1828. xxxi + 490pp. 3rd ed., mostly clean in orig. boards, re-cased with new spine. Barclay had for 21 years being engaged as an overseer in Jamaica and vigorously supports the slave system.BARCLAYA014110 £375

BASSO H. A quota of seaweed. Persons and places in Brazil, Spain, Honduras, Jamaica, Tahiti and Samoa. Collins. 1961. 191pp, fine in worn D/W. Interesting description of Jamaica.BASSOH000190 £4

BAYER M. Jamaica in Focus. A guide to the People, Politics and Culture. Latin American Bureau. 1993. 75pp + folding map. 1st ed., fine in pictorial card covers. Well illustrated guide to the island with sections on history, economy, politics and the people. Recommended.BAYERM017103 £8

BELL W. Jamaican Leaders. Political attitudes in a New Nation. Uni of California Press, Berkeley. 1964. xii + 229pp + plates. 1st ed., clean in worn D/W. BELLW016630 £12

BENNETT L. Jamaican Labrish. Sangsters Bookstores, Jamaica. 1975. 224pp + photo frontispiece. 3rd impression. Paperback. Clean. Jamaican dialect poems.BENNETTL017135 £10

BESHOFF P.L.H. Structuralist and realist perspectives in Jamaican Foreign Policy 1972-1980. London School of Economics. 1988. 492pp. Thesis bound in blue cloth. BESHOFFP017880 £10

BIGELOW J. Jamaica in 1850: or, the effects of sixteen years of freedom on a slave colony. George P. Putnam, New York. 1851. iv + 214pp. 1st ed., ex libre but with no handstamps. Only label on inside front board, remains of label on inside rear board and mark on spine. Minor tone spotting to text. Orig. worn brown cloth. A scarce work.BIGELOWJ015374 £225

BLACK C.V. Tales of old Jamaica Collins, London. 1973. 127pp, fine in D/W. Includes stories of Annie Palmer, the white witch of Rose Hall and the pirates, Anne Bonney and Mary Read.BLACKCV010720 £10

BLACK C.V. Tales of old Jamaica. Longman Caribbean. 1988. 127pp. Paperback. Clean. BLACKCV017029 £3

BLAKE E. Beautiful Jamaica. Jamaica. 1983. 232 large pp. Fine in orig. cloth. Coffee table book with fine col. photo illusts.BLAKEE002972 £10

BRIDGES Rev. G.W. The Annals of Jamaica. John Murray, London. 1828. 2 vols. xix + 604pp + xii + 505pp + [1] errata. 1st ed., second issue. Lacking original prelims. in vol. 1 which has been rebound in grey sugar paper boards retaining original paper label. Vol. 2 is in the original blue sugar paper boards and also has the original paper label, making them a handsome pair. The author was strongly in favour of slavery and anti Methodist. The book was taken off the market by court order following action brought against the publisher by two free persons of colour, Lescesne and Escoffery, who had been deported from Jamaica unjustly, because of the libel it contained about them. (Ragatz)BRIDGESR018765 £575

BROWN A. Color, Class, and Politics in Jamaica. Transaction Books, New Brunswick. 1979. x + 172pp. 1st ed., clean in dusty D/W. BROWNA016709 £7

BROWN W. Edna Manley. The Private Years 1900 - 1938. Andre Deutsch. 1975. 264pp + plates. 1st ed., clean in D/W. BROWNW016730 £18

BROWN W.J. Jamaican Journey. George Allen & Unwin. 1948. 201pp. 1st ed., clean in faded original cloth. Essays on various subjects based around a voyage to Jamaica.BROWNWJ016703 £6

BRROKE KNIGHT Cap. The Captain's Story or, Jamaica sixty years since with illustrations by Sir John Gilbert. Religious Tract Society. 1890 (circa). 368pp + ads. 1st ed., fine in pictorial cloth. Boy's Own type novel illustrated with wood cuts.BRROKEKN007513 £45

BYRNE R. The coinage of Jamaica. Texas. 1966. 106pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. Illustrated catalogue.BYRNER012014 £15

CAMPBELL H.D. National Heroes, Honours and Awards. Agency for Public Information, Kingston. 1974. 52pp. 1st ed. Clean in card covers. Also 'Code for National Symbols.' 16pp, 1973. CAMPBELL017167 £6

CAMPBELL M.C. The Maroons of Jamaica 1655 - 1796 A history of resistance, collaboration and betrayal Bergin & Garvey, Massachusetts. 1988. 296pp. 1st ed., fine in original black boards. Fine historical study.CAMPBELL018146 £15

CARLEY M.M. Jamaica. The old and the new. George Allen & Unwin. 1964. 212pp + plates. 2nd impression. Fine in fine D/W. Description of the island with much on economic problems.CARLEYMM017059 £15

CARNEGIE J. Some aspects of Jamaica's Politics. 1918 - 1938. Institute of Jamaica. 1973. 194pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in worn D/W. CARNEGIE017146 £25

CASSIDY F.G. Jamaica Talk. Three hundred years of the English language in Jamaica. Institute of Jamaica. 1971. 468pp. 2nd ed., clean in slightly torn D/W. Authorative study.CASSIDYF011492 £35

CHAPMAN E. Pleasure Island. The book of Jamaica. Arawak Press, Kingston. 1961. 324pp + ads. 5th revised ed., clean in D/W. Well illustrated history and guide book covering all aspects of island life.CHAPMANE010176 £15

CHARLES P. Detained. 283 days in Jamaica's Detention Camp, struggling for freedom, justice and human rights! Kingston Publishers Ltd., Kingston. 1977. 207pp. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. CHARLESP017170 £9

CLARK J. The Voice of Jubilee: a narrative of the Baptist Mission, Jamaica, from its commencement; with biographical notices of its fathers and founders. John Snow, London. 1865. xx + 359 + [2]pp. 1st ed., very clean in modern maroon cloth. CLARKJ015211 £145

CLARKE C.G. Kingston Jamaica. Urban development and social change, 1692-1962. Uni. of California. 1975. 270 large pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Detailed historical and geographical study of the city.CLARKECG002977 £12

CLARKE E. My mother who Fathered Me. A study of the family in three selected communities in Jamaica. George Allen & Unwin. 1957. 216pp. 1st ed., fine in worn D/W. CLARKEE016968 £6

COHEN S. Adventure guide to Jamaica. Hunter Pub. 1997. 277pp + col. plates. 3rd ed., P.B. Useful practical guide book.COHENS004463 £8

COVER W.A. The handbook of Jamaica for 1947-48 comprising historical, statistical and general information concerning the island, obtained from Official and other reliable sources and compiled. Govt. Printing Office, Jamaica. 1947. 740 + xxix pp + plates + large folding map. 1st ed., ex library with a few handstamps and a label otherwise clean in original red decorated cloth which has library number on spine. COVERWA018143 £70

COVER W.A. The handbook of Jamaica for 1949-50 comprising historical, statistical and general information concerning the island, obtained from Official and other reliable sources and compiled. Govt. Printing Office, Jamaica. 1949. 768 + xxvii pp + plates + large folding map. 1st ed., ex library with a few handstamps and a label otherwise clean in original red decorated cloth which has library number on spine. COVERWA018165 £70

COVER W.A. The handbook of Jamaica for 1951 comprising historical, statistical and general information concerning the island, obtained from Official and other reliable sources and compiled. Govt. Printing Office, Jamaica. 1951. 636 + xxix pp + plates + large folding map. 1st ed., ex library with a few handstamps and a label otherwise clean in original red decorated cloth which has library number on spine. COVERWA018166 £70

COVER W.A. The handbook of Jamaica for 1952 comprising historical, statistical and general information concerning the island, obtained from Official and other reliable sources and compiled. Govt. Printing Office, Jamaica. 1952. 690 + xxvi pp + plates + two large folding maps. 1st ed., ex library with a few handstamps and a label otherwise clean in original red decorated cloth which has library number on spine. COVERWA018167 £70

COVER W.A. The handbook of Jamaica for 1953 comprising historical, statistical and general information concerning the island, obtained from Official and other reliable sources and compiled. Govt. Printing Office, Jamaica. 1953. 626 + xxii pp + plates + two folding maps. 1st ed., ex library with a few handstamps and a label otherwise clean in original red decorated cloth which has library number on spine. COVERWA018168 £50

COVER W.A. The handbook of Jamaica for 1958 comprising historical, statistical and general information concerning the island, obtained from Official and other reliable sources and compiled. Govt. Printing Office, Jamaica. 1958. xxx + 631 + ix pp + plates + large folding map. 1st ed., ex library with a few handstamps and a label otherwise clean in original red decorated cloth which has library number on spine. COVERWA018144 £40

CRABB Rev J.A. Christ for Jamaica. A Symposium of religious activities compiled by the Jamaica Christian Council. Pioneer Press, Kngston, Jamaica. 1951. 101pp. Paperback. Cover slightly damaged otherwise fine. CRABBREV016321 £12

CRATON M. A Jamaican plantation. The history of Worthy Park 1670 - 1970. W.H. Allen, London. 1970. 344pp + plates. 1st ed. Fine in fine D/W. Fine historical study of a sugar estate.CRATONM017584 £16

CRONON E.D. Black Moses. The story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Uni. of Wisconsin Press. 1972. 278pp. Paperback. Fine. CRONONED016733 £3

CUMPER P. One Bright Child. Black Amber Books. 1998. 163pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Clean. Novel set in 1936 about a Jamaican girl coming to England.CUMPERP017192 £4

CUNDALL F. Historic Jamaica. Institute of Jamaica. 1915. xxiii + 424pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in modern green cloth. Fine historical study with chapters on each parish cont. attractive line drawings.CUNDALLF016439 £70

CUNDALL F. The handbook of Jamaica for 1921 comprising historical, statistical and general information concerning the island, compiled from Official and other reliable sources. Govt. Printing Office, Jamaica. 1921. viii + 652 + xIi pp + vii + large folding map. 1st ed., ex library with a few handstamps and a label otherwise clean in original red decorated cloth which has two library handstamps. Spine badly faded. CUNDALLF018137 £70

CUNDALL F. The handbook of Jamaica for 1923 comprising historical, statistical and general information concerning the island, compiled from Official and other reliable sources. Govt. Printing Office, Jamaica. 1923. viii + 705 + iv pp + plates + large folding map. 1st ed., ex library with a few handstamps and a label otherwise clean in original red decorated cloth which has two library handstamps. Spine badly faded. CUNDALLF018138 £70

CUNDALL F. The handbook of Jamaica for 1928 comprising historical, statistical and general information concerning the island, compiled from Official and other reliable sources. Govt. Printing Office, Jamaica. 1928. viii + 554 + xxiii pp + plates + large folding map. 1st ed., ex library with a few handstamps and a label otherwise clean in original red decorated cloth which has two library handstamps. Spine badly faded. CUNDALLF018139 £70

CUNDALL F. The handbook of Jamaica for 1930 comprising historical, statistical and general information concerning the island, compiled from Official and other reliable sources. Govt. Printing Office, Jamaica. 1930. viii + 580 + xxiii pp + plates + large folding map. 1st ed., ex library with a few handstamps and a label otherwise clean in original red decorated cloth which has two library handstamps. Spine badly faded. CUNDALLF018140 £70

CUNDALL F. The handbook of Jamaica for 1931 comprising historical, statistical and general information concerning the island, compiled from Official and other reliable sources. Govt. Printing Office, Jamaica. 1931. viii + 592 + xiv pp + plates + large folding map. 1st ed., ex library with a few handstamps and a label otherwise clean in original red decorated cloth which has two library handstamps. Spine badly faded. CUNDALLF018141 £70

CUNDALL F. The Governors of Jamaica in the seventeenth century West India Committee, London. 1936. xli + 177pp + 36 plates and 2 folding maps. 1st ed. Ex public library with labels on end papers and handstamps on reverse of plates and rear of title page otherwise clean in original blue cloth. Important historical study.CUNDALLF017625 £45

CUNDALL F. The handbook of Jamaica for 1936 comprising historical, statistical and general information concerning the island, compiled from Official and other reliable sources. Govt. Printing Office, Jamaica. 1936. 644 + xvi pp + plates + large folding map. 1st ed., ex library with a few handstamps and a label otherwise clean in original very badly faded red decorated cloth which has two library handstamps. CUNDALLF018142 £70

CUNDALL F. The Governors of Jamaica in the first half of the eighteenth century. West India Committee, London. 1937. xxxi + 177pp + 24 plates and 3 folding plans. 1st ed. One plate loose, browning throughout and occasional pencil underlining, new e.p.'s in orig. faded cloth. Important historical study.CUNDALLF014268 £45

CUNDALL F. The Governors of Jamaica in the first half of the eighteenth century. West India Committee, London. 1937. xxxi + 177pp + 24 plates and 3 folding plans. 1st ed. toning affecting quite a few pages but mostly confined to margins except for the title page which is toned overall. Orig. cloth with slightly bumped corners. Important historical study.CUNDALLF015714 £60

CUNDALL F. Lady Nugent's Journal. Jamaica one hundred and thirty eight years ago. Reprinted from a journal kept by Maria, Lady Nugent, from 1801 to 1815, issued for private circulation in 1839. Institute of Jamaica, London. 1939. civ + 404pp + plates and folding map. 3rd ed., fine in worn and chipped D/W. Inscription on f.e.p. 'To Sir Lawrence and Lady Oliver whose kinsman was and is part of Jamaica & part of Kings House from Sylvia (?) Foot, Kings House Jamaica April 1952.' Long introduction by Frank Cundall.CUNDALLF015009 £45

DE LISSER H.G. Morgan's daughter. Macmillan. 1994. 255pp. Paperback. Fine. Historical novel set in Jamaica.DELISSER016312 £3

DELAPORTE A. Le Voyageur Francois, ou la connoissance de l'ancien et du nouveau monde. Tome IX. Canada, America and Jamaica. L. Cellot, Paris. 1772. 503pp. 4th ed., fine in worn original full calf. Includes 63pp on Jamaica written in 1749.DELAPORT016914 £60

EATON G.E. Alexander Bustamante and modern Jamaica. Kingston Pub., Kingston, Jamaica. 1975. 276pp. 1st ed., clean in D/W. EATONGE012370 £12

ERIC A. Buckra Land. Two weeks in Jamaica. Details of a voyage to the West Indies, Day by Day, and a tour of Jamaica, Step by Step. Boston. 1896. 89pp + appendix and many photo plates. 1st ed., fine in illustrated card covers. A scarce work with many fine photo plates.ERICA018447 £145

ESEOGHENE The Conflicting Eye. Paul Breman. 1973. 24pp. 1st ed., fine in pictorial card covers. Inscribed and signed by author on reverse of title page. Poetry by Jamaican writer.ESEOGHEN017165 £24

ESSIEN-UDOM E.U. More Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey. Volume III Frank Cass. 1977. xiii + 248pp. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. ESSIENUD016722 £40

EYRE L.A. Geographic aspects of population dynamics in Jamaica. Florida Atlantic Uni. Press. 1972. 172pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in D/W. EYRELA010068 £20

FAWCETT W. Flora of Jamaica. Containing descriptions of the flowering plants known from the island. British Museum. 1910 - 36. 5 vols. (all published). 1st eds., fine in orig. green cloth. Many plates and drawings in each volume with 32 plates devoted to orchids.FAWCETTW017271 £250

FINLASON W.F. The history of the Jamaica case, founded upon official or authentic documents, and containing an account of the debates in Parliament, and the criminal prosecutions, arising out of the case. Chapman & Hall, London. 1868. 4 + clxiv + 679pp. 1st ed. fine in orig. cloth. Inscribed on prelim, 'Presented by the wish of the late Edward John Eyre formerly Governor of Jamaica Dec 6th 1901.' A very scarce work.FINLASON015222 £360

FIRTH C.H. The narrative of General Venables with an appendix of papers relating to the expedition to the West Indies and the conquest of Jamaica, 1654-1655. Longmans, Green & Co. 1900. 180pp. 1st ed., ex library with label on inside cover and h/s on reverse of title page otherwise very fine in red cloth. A scarce work on military history.FIRTHCH016743 £60

FORD J.C. The handbook of Jamaica for 1907 comprising historical, statistical and general information concerning the island, compiled from Official and other reliable sources. Govt. Printing Office, Jamaica. 1907. viii + 575 + xi pp + large folding map. 1st ed., ex library with a few handstamps and a label otherwise clean in original red decorated cloth which has two library handstamps. FORDJC018134 £70

FORD J.C. The handbook of Jamaica for 1908 comprising historical, statistical and general information concerning the island, compiled from Official and other reliable sources. Govt. Printing Office, Jamaica. 1908. viii + 590 + i pp + large folding map. 1st ed., ex library with a few handstamps, folding map with foxing otherwise clean in modern quarter calf with marbled boards and new end papers. FORDJC018163 £100

FORD J.C. The handbook of Jamaica for 1912 comprising historical, statistical and general information concerning the island, compiled from Official and other reliable sources. Govt. Printing Office, Jamaica. 1912. viii + 609 + xi pp + large folding map. 1st ed., ex library with a few handstamps and a label otherwise clean in original red decorated cloth which has two library handstamps. Spine badly faded. FORDJC018135 £70

FORD J.C. The handbook of Jamaica for 1914 comprising historical, statistical and general information concerning the island, compiled from Official and other reliable sources. Govt. Printing Office, Jamaica. 1914. viii + 652 + xi pp + large folding map. 1st ed., ex library with a few handstamps and a label otherwise clean in original red decorated cloth which has two library handstamps. Spine badly faded and with slight loss at head and tail. FORDJC018136 £70

FORTESCUE Hon. J.W. Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, America and the West Indies, 15 May, 1696 - 31 October, 1697. Preserved in the Public Record Office. Kraus Reprint, Vaduz. 1964. xxix + 714pp. Facsimile reprint of 1904 edition, clean in orig. green cloth. Includes many references to Barbados and Jamaica.FORTESCU015874 £35

GAMBLE G.M. Jamaica. Isle of June. Gale & Polden Ltd., Aldershot. 1940. 1st ed., fine in orig. green limp cloth. 12 poems with occasional line drawings.GAMBLEGM003134 £25

GARVEY A.J. Garvey and Garveyism. Published by the author. 1963. 287pp + photo frontispiece. 1st ed., fine in original brown cloth with slightly torn D/W. Inscribed on inside cover, 'To His Excellency Hon. H. Linds, C.M.J. High Commissioner and Mrs Linds, A. Jacques Garvey 1963.' GARVEYAJ016998 £160

 

GAUNT M. Where the Twain meet. E.P. Dutton & Co., New York. 1922. 335pp + photo plates. 1st ed., spine sunned and showing signs of wear otherwise clean in orig. cloth. History of Jamaica mostly concerned with slavery.GAUNTM012373 £30

GAUNT M. Reflection in Jamaica. London. 1932. 258pp. 1st ed., tone spotting throughout but mostly affecting margins. Description of day to day life in the island.GAUNTM008504 £16

GIRVAN N. Foreign Capital and Economic Underdevelopment in Jamaica. Uni. of W.I., Jamaica. 1971. 282pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Handstamp of Jamaica High Commission on title page. Covers worn and binding becoming loose but text clean. GIRVANN016494 £20

GOODISON L. A am becoming my mother. New Beacon Books. 1986. 50pp. Paperback. Fine. Poetry by Jamaican writer.GOODISON016713 £10

GOODWIN W.B. Spanish and English ruins in Jamaica. Meador Pub. Co., Boston. 1946. 239 large pp + coloured frontispiece and folding map. 1st ed., fine in D/W. 8 x 10" Archaelogical study of mostly 16th century ruins with some illustrations.GOODWINW015000 £95

GOSSE P.H. The birds of Jamaica. London. 1847. x + 447pp. 1st ed., text vol. only - lacking volume of plates. Mostly clean with a few tone spots and slight stains in margins only, in clean orig. cloth. An important work giving detailed descriptions.GOSSEPH010959 £125

GOSSE P.H. A naturalist's sojourn in Jamaica Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans. 1851. 508pp + 9 tinted or coloured plates. 1st ed., fine in modern half calf. An important early work with most attractive illustrations.GOSSEPH017730 £350

GOVERNMENT Jamaica. Report for the year 1958. HMSO. 1959. 424pp + col. plates. 1st ed., fine in orig. cloth. Full of useful statistical info. on the economy.GOVERNME003508 £20

GREY Earl The Colonial Policy of Lord John Russell's Administration. Richard Bentley, London. 1853. 2 vols. xii + 473pp, iv + 414pp. 1st ed., mostly clean in original rather faded blindstamped cloth, showing wear to hinges. Good sections on Guiana, Jamaica, St Lucia and Trinidad and sections on other countries within the Commonwealth.GREYEARL016892 £200

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

HADER B. & E. Jamaica Johnny. Macmillan Co., New York. 1935. 90 large pp. 1st ed., clean in pictorial green cloth. Children's story of growing up in Jamaica with 6 most attractive colour plates plus line drawings in text.HADERB&E013367 £45

HALL CAINE R. The cruise of the Port Kingston. Collier & Co. 1908. 352pp + 2 col. plates, folding map and 64 B & W plates. 1st ed. Clean in orig. pictorial maroon cloth. The author visited the island just before the earthquake of 1906 and was present during the crisis. This is well recorded and illustrated in his account which also includes much on the social state of the island plus chapters on obeahism and voodoo. Recommended.HALLCAIN013576 £100

HALL S. Norman Manley Memorial Lectures 1984 and 1986. London. 1986 (circa). 44pp. Paperback. Also 1993 Service of Thanksgiving to mark the centenary of the birth of Norman Manley. 15pp. Card covers. HALLS016737 £4

HAMILTON B. St J. Bustamante. Anthology of a hero. Jamaica. 1977. 162pp. Paperback. Clean. Illustrated biography.HAMILTON017084 £12

HARRISON M. King Sugar. Jamaica, the Caribbean and the World Sugar Economy. Latin American Bureau. 2001. 168pp. Paperback. Very fine. HARRISON016298 £11

HART R. Black Jamaicans' struggle against slavery. Institute of Jamaica. 1977. 32pp + 2 plates. 1st ed., clean in orange card covers. HARTR016334 £12

HART R. Rise and Organise. The birth of the Workers and National Movements in Jamaica (1936-1939) Karia Press. 1989. 157pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Very fine. HARTR016395 £8

HART R. Towards Decolonisation. Political, labour and economic development in Jamaica, 1938-1945. Uni of W.I. 1999. xxii + 329pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Inscribed and signed by author on title page. Fine. HARTR017099 £35

HAYWARD T. The Festive Food of Jamaica. Kyle Cathie Ltd. 1996. 61pp. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. Cookery book with attractive water colour views.HAYWARDT017045 £4

HEARNE J. The Search for Solutions. Selections from the speeches and writings of Michael Manley. Maple House Pub. Co. 1976. 322pp. 1st ed., clean in worn D/W. HEARNEJ016997 £20

HENDERSON J. Jamaica Peeps at many lands A. & C. Black. 1906. 87pp + 24 colour plates of paintings by A.S. Forrest. 1st ed., fine in pictorial cloth, spine sunned. Attractive views of the island.HENDERSO018215 £36

   

HENRIQUES F. Jamaica. Land of wood and water. Macgibbon & Kee. 1957. 216pp + frontispiece and plates. 1st ed., fine in slightly worn D/W. Description of changes in life in Jamaica from the C18th to the present.HENRIQUE017143 £12

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

HIGMAN B.W. Slave population and economy in Jamaica 1807-1834. Cambridge Uni. Press. 1979. vii + 327pp. Paperback in fine condition. Academic study.HIGMANBW018366 £6

HIGMAN B.W. Jamaica Surveyed. Plantation maps and plans of late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Institute of Jamaica. 1988. xv + 307pp. Clean in original card covers. Profusely illustrated. Highly recommended.HIGMANBW018216 £45

HMSO Journal of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations from January 1722-3 to December 1728, preserved in the Public Record Office. London. 1928. iv + 481pp. 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" HMSO016593 £45

HMSO Journal of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations from January 1728 to December 1734, preserved in the Public Record Office. London. 1928. iv + 464pp. 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 Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda whaling industry and Jamaica.HMSO016594 £45

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

HMSO Journal of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations from January 1768 to December 1775, preserved in the Public Record Office. London. 1937. viii + 499pp. 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" HMSO016601 £45

HMSO Journal of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations from January 1776 to May 1782, preserved in the Public Record Office. London. 1938. ix + 511pp. 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" HMSO016602 £45

HOVEY S. Letters from the West Indies; relating especialy to the Danish island of St Croix, and to the British islands Antigua, Barbadoes and Jamaica. Gould & Newman, New York. 1838. 212pp, 1st ed. Foxing throughout particularly affecting title page, in original lilac blindstamped cloth with original paper label, spine faded. The author's letters are invaluable sources for the apprenticeship period in the three British islands visited but also contain well written accounts of the state of slavery and of island opposition to emancipation before 1834. (Ragatz)HOVEYS018155 £220

HUGHES M. The Fairest Island. Victor Gollancz, London. 1962. 160pp. 1st ed., very fine in fine D/W. Description of life in Jamaica written by an English women.HUGHESM017628 £18

HUNTLEY E.L. Two Lives: Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole. Bogle-L'Ouverture Press. 1993. 62pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Fine. Children's book. Mary Seacole was born in Jamaica and became famous as a nurse in the Crimea. HUNTLEYE017100 £8

INGRAM K.E. The Q.C. and the Middleman. Pentland Press, Durham. 1997. xiii + 203pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. Examines the social issues and conflicts which followed the Morant Bay rebellion through a study of a court case Ingram vs. Lowry of 1868. INGRAMKE015709 £12

JAMAICA Copy of the Representation and Petition of the Assembly of Jamaica, to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent. H.M.S.O. 1812. 6 large pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Requesting removal of restrictive duties. A scarce early report.JAMAICA012845 £35

JAMAICA Wesleyan Missionary Meeting House, Jamaica. Copies of all dispatches which H.M. Govt. has received from Jamaica, relative to an attack made on the Wesleyan Missionary Meeting House, and the dwelling of Mr Radcliffe the Missionary, at Christmas last. H.M.S.O. 1827. 3 large pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Mission House at St Anns Bay.JAMAICA012844 £10

JAMAICA Jamaica Slaves. Return from the Provost Martial of the Island of Jamaica, of the number of slaves sold under execution for debt in that island, in each year, since 1st Jan 1808 to the present time; with the aggregate amount of the sales in each case. H.M.S.O. 1828. 5 large pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. JAMAICA012842 £10

JAMAICA Slavery. Copy of a letter from the Colonial Secretary to the Lieut.-Governor of Jamaica; dated 22 Sept. 1827. H.M.S.O. 1828. 3 large pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Wishing to stop an Act altering the slave laws of Jamaica from being passed.JAMAICA012843 £10

JAMAICA Troops in Jamaica. An account of all sums of money voted by The House of Assembly in the Island of Jamaica...in the years 1825-8...for the use of purpose of the King's Troops. H.M.S.O. 1830. 3 large pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Itemised accounts for troops expenses.JAMAICA012841 £15

JAMAICA Baptist Missionaries. Memorial and statement of the Baptist Missionaries in Jamaica. H.M.S.O. 1832. 5 large pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. JAMAICA012877 £10

JAMAICA Papers, in explanation of the proceedings of the Legislature of Jamaica, in reference to the amendment of their original Act for giving effect to the Act of Parliament for the Abolition of Slavery. H.M.S.O. 1836. 33 large pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. JAMAICA012880 £36

JAMAICA Slavery Abolition. H.M.S.O. 1836. 13 large pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Responce from the House of Assembly to charges brought by Lord Sligo for failing to protect the rights of the negro population.JAMAICA012878 £15

JAMAICA Copies or Extracts of further communications... relative to the agricultural state of that Colony. H.M.S.O. 1839. 17 large pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Includes reports from estates on the new labour system and summary on the effects of the change on each of the estates in St Thomas in the East parish.JAMAICA012883 £30

JAMAICA Copies or Extracts of further communications... relative to the agricultural state of that Colony. H.M.S.O. 1839. 12 large pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Effects of emancipation on the labour force for the sugar plantations incl. 'Rent-Roll for Spurtree Plantation' individually naming householders and inmates.JAMAICA012884 £30

JAMAICA Copy of memorial ...by planters, merchants and others interested in Jamaica. H.M.S.O. 1839. 5 large pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Complaints following emancipation at difficulties of procuring labour for the plantations. The planters claiming that much of the problem was caused by bad council given by stipendary magistrates and Baptist missionaries.JAMAICA012885 £15

JAMAICA Copy of any correspondence...on the subject of Temporary Barracks at Maroon Town, Jamaica.. H.M.S.O. 1840. 13 large pp + two engraved plans. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Includes detailed plan of the site and diagram of the proposed Officer's huts.JAMAICA012886 £75

JAMAICA Copy of an Act passed by the Legislature of the island of Jamaica, in the month of December last, imposing Duties on all articles imported into that island for internal Consumption. H.M.S.O. 1843. 8 large pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. JAMAICA012887 £10

JAMAICA Copy of the Memorial to Her Majesty, of the House of Assembly of Jamaica, during its last session. H.M.S.O. 1844. 2 large pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Implores for reduction of duties following collapse of the sugar industry.JAMAICA012888 £8

JAMAICA The Jamaica Movement, for promoting the enforcement of the slave-trade treaties, and the suppression of the slave-trade; with statements of fact, convention, and law: prepared at the request of the Kingston Committee. Charles Gilpin, London. 1850. 430pp. 1st ed., very fine in orig. boards, re-cased with new spine and end papers. JAMAICA014206 £320

JAMAICA Sugar Growing Colonies. (Part II - Jamaica) H.M.S.O. 1852. 361 large pp. 1st ed., clean in blue paper covers. Highlights the problems faced by Jamaica at this period.JAMAICA012893 £75

JAMAICA Papers relative to Legislative proceedings in Jamaica. H.M.S.O. 1853. 65 large pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. JAMAICA012894 £25

JAMAICA Copy of the Act of Jamaica, 21st Vict. Cap. 5 H.M.S.O. 1858. 25 large pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Ammending laws relating to agricultural immigrants and raising funds for bringing indentured labourers to Jamaica.JAMAICA012897 £15

JAMAICA The Vere Case. Conduct of Mr Justice Cargill, one of the judges of the Supreme Court on the trial of the Vere Case in 1856. H.M.S.O. 1860. 9 large pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Report of unfair trial held at Alley, Vere.JAMAICA012898 £10

JAMAICA Annexation of St Domingo. Copy of a memorial addressed to the Secretary of State from Jamaica. H.M.S.O. 1861. 2 large pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Following fears of a Spanish takeover in the Republic. Spain was still a slave holding power.JAMAICA012899 £7

JAMAICA Copy or extracts of correspondence between the Board of Admiralty and Admiral Hope on the conduct of naval officers in the recent deplorable occurrences in Jamaica. H.M.S.O. 1866. 30 large pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. JAMAICA012906 £30

JAMAICA Papers relative to the affairs of Jamaica. H.M.S.O. 1866. 279 large pp. 1st ed., clean in blue paper covers. The problems of Governor Eyre. Detailed break down of the causes of theft in towns and villages.JAMAICA012902 £65

JAMAICA Parliamentary Papers relating to Jamaica in 1866. The Morant Bay Rebellion. H.M.S.O. 1866. Series of House of Commons Papers relating to affairs in Jamaica reprinted and bound together in one folio volume. 897pp. Clean condition with two small library h/s's. Detailed reports of the Morant Bay rebellion and actions of Governor Eyre.JAMAICA016696 £450

JAMAICA Drafts of criminal code. Code of criminal procedure for the island of Jamaica by R.S. Wright H.M.S.O. 1877. 134 large pp. 1st ed., clean in blue paper covers. JAMAICA012908 £36

JAMAICA Visit of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York to Jamaica, 20th to 23rd January, 1927 Colonial Secretary, Jamaica. 1927. 18pp + 2 maps and folding railway timetable. 1st ed., fine in original buff card covers. Detailed description of the programme for the visit.JAMAICA018772 £48

JAMAICA Blue book for the island of Jamaica for 1928. Government Printing Office, Kingston, Jamaica. 1929. [3] + 484 large pp. Ex library with label on inside cover and a few h/s's otherwise clean in original half cloth binding. 8.5 x 12.5" Wealth of statistical information on the island plus information on all government departments and their services.JAMAICA016774 £40

JAMAICA Blue book for the island of Jamaica for 1929. Government Printing Office, Kingston, Jamaica. 1930. [3] + 498 large pp. Ex library with label on inside cover and a few h/s's otherwise clean in original half cloth binding. 8.5 x 12.5" JAMAICA016773 £40

JAMAICA Blue book for the island of Jamaica for 1930. Government Printing Office, Kingston, Jamaica. 1931. [3] + 492 large pp. Ex library with label on inside cover and a few h/s's otherwise clean in original half cloth binding. 8.5 x 12.5" JAMAICA016775 £40

JAMAICA Blue book for the island of Jamaica for 1934. Government Printing Office, Kingston, Jamaica. 1935. [3] + 472 large pp. Ex library with label on inside cover and a few h/s's otherwise clean in original half cloth binding. 8.5 x 12.5"JAMAICA016776 £40

JAMAICA A broadside issued at Mobile (now in Alabama) in 1763, but printed on the island of Jamaica in the same year. Reproduced in facsimile from the original in the William L. Clements Library, with a note on the authorship and production of this unrecorded imprint by Douglas C. McMurtrie. American Historical Association. 1939. 6 large pp. Private Press reprint. One of the earliest items printed in Jamaica. The Broadside is concerned with the Seven Years War.JAMAICA008029 £40

JAMAICA Report for the year 1950. H.M.S.O. 1951. 189pp + folding map. 1st ed., clean in grey card covers. JAMAICA018365 £24

JAMAICA Sesqui-Centennial Anniversary of the Granting of a Charter to the City of Kingston Jamaica, B.W.I. 1802 - 1952. Official Souvenir Album. Kingston & St Andrew Corporation. 1952. 76 large pp. 1st ed., small water stain at top right corner throughout all pages not detracting too greatly, otherwise clean in worn original pictorial boards. 8.5 x 11" Historical essays by various authors on the city's past with many illustrations. Very scarce.JAMAICA019174 £36

JAMAICA The Economic Development of Jamaica. Report by a Mission of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. John Hopkins Press. 1952. xviii + 288pp + photo plates. 1st ed., clean in original brown cloth. JAMAICA017197 £8

JAMAICA Report for the year 1955. H.M.S.O. 1956. 376pp + colour and black & white photo plates and folding map. 1st ed., ex library but with only labels on inside covers and a few small handstamps, clean in original grey boards with reference number written on spine. Reports from different government departments on the running of the colony incl. chapter on history, list of governors and much more.JAMAICA018169 £20

JAMAICA Report for the year 1956. H.M.S.O. 1957. iv + 464pp + colour and black & white photo plates and folding map in rear pocket. 1st ed., ex library but with only labels on inside covers and a few small handstamps, clean in original grey boards with reference number written on spine. Includes article on migration of Jamaican workers to England.JAMAICA018170 £20

JAMAICA Report for the year 1957. H.M.S.O. 1960. 426pp + colour and black & white photo plates. 1st ed., clean in torn D/W. Reports from different government departments on the running of the colony incl. chapter on history, list of governors and much more.JAMAICA015451 £20

JAMAICA Report for the year 1958. H.M.S.O. 1961. 424pp + colour and black & white photo plates. 1st ed., ex libre but with only labels on inside covers, clean in orig. grey boards. .JAMAICA015490 £15

JAMAICA Directory of Jamaica 1962 including trade index and biographical section. Diplomatic Press & Publishing Co. 1962. 100 large pp. Ex reference library with label on inside cover and some handstamps otherwise clean in original black cloth. Detailed lists of businesses on the island. JAMAICA017646 £45

JAMAICA Report for the year 1959. H.M.S.O. 1962. 455pp + colour and black & white photo plates. 1st ed., ex libre but with only labels on inside covers, clean in orig. grey boards. JAMAICA018171 £15

JAMAICA Report for the year 1960. H.M.S.O. 1963. 477pp + colour and black & white photo plates. 1st ed., ex libre with some h/s's and labels on inside covers, otherwise clean in tatty D/W. .JAMAICA015491 £20

JAMAICA Report for the year 1961. H.M.S.O. 1965. 523pp + black & white photo plates. 1st ed., ex libre with some h/s's and label on inside e.p. otherwise clean in D/W. JAMAICA015453 £18

JAMAICA Report on Worker Participation in Jamaica. Kingston. 1976. 110pp. Clean in card covers. JAMAICA017106 £4

JAMAICA Five year development plan 1978-82. Main document. National Planning Agency, Government of Jamaica. 1976 (circa). 150 large pp + 2 folding maps. Somewhat browned in orig. card covers. JAMAICA016333 £8

JAMAICA A handbook of the social services of Jamaica. Council of Voluntary Social Services, Kingston. 1978. 128pp. Paperback. JAMAICA016616 £7

JAMAICA Economic and Social Survey Jamaica 1989. Planning Institute of Jamaica. 1990. Approx. 200 large pp. Clean in card covers. JAMAICA016639 £8

JEFFERSON O. The Post-War economic development of Jamaica. Uni. of W.I., Jamaica. 1972. 302pp incl. folding tables and maps. 1st ed. Paperback. Creased and worn covers otherwise clean but with one section loose. JEFFERSO016492 £5

JOHNSTON J. Jamaica. The new Riviera. A pictorial description of the islands and its attractions. Cassell & Co. 1903. 104 large pp + folding map and ads. Oblong folio. 1st ed., clean in orig. worn pictorial card covers. (yellow background and view in sepia). Bound with string. Back cover has become detached. Description of the island with lovely photo plates. Although dated 1903 there are images of the devastation caused by the 1907 earthquake.JOHNSTON016507 £95

KAPP Capt. K.S. The printed maps of Jamaica up to 1825. Bolivar Press, Jamaica. 1968. 36pp + 33 plates. 1st ed., fine in original red card covers. Detailed listing of the early maps of Jamaica.KAPPCAPT016679 £35

KAPPEL P. Jamaica gallery. Little Brown & Co., Boston. 1960. 56 large pp. 1st special ltd. ed. of 1000, signed by the author in blue slip case. Fine. Cont. 25 full page etchings depicting typical island life drawn by the author.KAPPELP005498 £45

KAUFMAN M. Jamaica under Manley. Zed Books Ltd. 1985. 282pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Clean. KAUFMANM017068 £8

KENNEDY Capt. W.R. Sport, Travel, and Adventure in Newfoundland and the West Indies. William Blackwood & Sons. 1885. Coloured frontispiece, x + [1] + 399pp + 18 engravings of line drawings + folding map. 1st ed., tone spotting to first few pages otherwise very clean in modern quarter calf binding with marbled boards. Good sections on Bermuda and Jamaica plus much on hunting and fishing in Newfoundland.KENNEDYC018008 £175

KERR M. Personality and conflict in Jamaica. Liverpool at the University Press. 1952. xii + 221pp + plates. 1st ed., some tone spotting to end papers otherwise clean in torn D/W. KERRM017152 £8

KING A. One Love. With an introduction by Andrew Salkey. Bogle-L'Ouverture Pubs. 1971. 82pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Clean. Short stories by Jamaican authors.KINGA017180 £6

KUPER A. Changing Jamaica. Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1976. xi + 163pp. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. KUPERA017132 £8

LAWRENCE-ARCHER J.H. Monumental inscriptions of the British West Indies from the earliest date, with genealogical and historical annotations from original local, and other sources, illustrative of the histories and genealogies of the seventeenth century, the calendars of state papers, peerages and baronetages; with engravings of the arms of the principal famlies. Chatto & Windus, London. 1875. xii + 442 large pp. Thick royal quarto (9 x 12") 1st ed., fine apart from a little tone spotting, in very fine old quarter calf binding with cloth boards and decorated spine. An important genealogical work. Mostly on Jamaica but with short chapters on most of the islands.LAWRENCE016513 £450

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

LEVI D.E. Michael Manley. The making of a leader. Andre Deutsch. 1989. 349pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in D/W. LEVIDE005551 £8

LEWIS M.G. Journal of a residence among the negroes in the West Indies. Review in 'The Quarterly Review.' John Murray, London. 1834. 25pp article in complete journal. Fine in original paper covers A contemporary review also mentions Mrs Carmichael's work on the West Indies.LEWISMG018509 £20

LEWIS M.G. Journal of a residence among the negroes in the West Indies. John Murray, London. 1845. 184pp. Fine in modern half morocco. Fine description of the island written after the abolition of slave trade but before the freeing of the slaves. The author was much concerned with the welfare of the slaves and highlights the evils of absentee landlordism.LEWISMG008995 £120

LINDSAY L. The Myth of Independence. Middle Class Politics and non-mobilization in Jamaica. Institute of Social & Economic Research, Jamaica. 1975. ii + 71pp. 1st ed. Fine in green card covers. LINDSAYL016637 £8

LIVINGSTONE W.P. Black Jamaica. A study in evolution. Sampson Low Marston & Co., London. 1899. 298pp + publisher's catalogue. 1st ed., very fine in orig. maroon cloth. Written with the aim of 'revealing to the world the negro as he really is and the potentialities of his nature.'LIVINGST014254 £145

LOONEY R.E. The Jamaican Economy in the 1980's. Economic decline and structural adjustment. Westview Press. 1987. xiii + 257pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Fine. LOONEYRE017061 £6

LUCAS E.V. A fronded isle and other essays. Books for libraries press, New York. 1968. 215pp. Reprint of 1928 ed., clean in orig. cloth. Includes section on Jamaica.LUCASEV005549 £12

LUCKOCK Rev. B. Jamaica, enslaved and free. Religious Tract Society. 1846. 192pp. 1st ed., fine in orig. cloth, slightly shaken. A general sketch of the island's history and development with chapters on the slave trade and its abolition, work of the missionaries, the 1832 insurrection, emancipation and apprenticeship and the free labor regime.LUCKOCKR007518 £75

LYONS T.L. Matrimonial causes in Jamaica. Being a consolidation of Chapter 442 of the revised edition of the laws of Jamaica and law 23 of 1938. Unknown. 1940. 100pp. Clean in later library cloth binding. LYONSTL008020 £6

MACFADYEN J. Description of the Nelumbium Jamaicense. The Jamaica Water Bean. Jamaica. 1847. 3 plates, lithographed by W.J. Kidd of Kingston, Jamaica, after G. McNab comprising one folding plate, rather crudely hand coloured 22 x 18," a partially hand coloured view plus a view of the sections of the plant also a fourth plate depicting insects tipped in. Publisher's printed wrappers with engraved vignette bound in. Bookplate of Sir Prior Goldney. 1st ed., 'Printed by R.J. De Cordova, 66, Harbour Street, Kingston.' Fine in recent quarter morocco. Macfadyen (1800-1850) seems to have been a classicist turned botanist. He published a translation of Horace's odes into English at the age of 24 before publishing his Flora of Jamaica in 1837. Rare. Not in BMC, NSTC, Stafleu or NUC. An early Jamaica imprint.MACFADYE014236 £1,275

 

MADDEN R.R. A Twelvemonth's residence in the West Indies, during the transition from Slavery to Apprenticeship; with incidendal notes of the state of society, prospects, and natural resources of Jamaica and other islands. Carey, Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia. 1835. 2 vols. 228pp + vii + 224pp. 1st U.S. edition. Some tone spotting throughout, end papers with owner's name otherwise good in original half calf with the original marbled boards. An important work by one of the stipendary magistrates on the island of Jamaica.MADDENRR017837 £425

MANDERSON-JONES R.B. Jamaican Foreign Policy in the Caribbean. 1962 - 1988. Caricom Publishers Ltd. 1990. 194pp. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. MANDERSO017141 £18

MANLEY M. The Politics of Change. A Jamaican Testament. Andre Deutsch. 1974. 223pp. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. MANLEYM016732 £5

MANLEY M. A Voice at the Workplace. Reflections on Colonialism and the Jamaican Worker. Andre Deutsch. 1975. 239pp. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. MANLEYM017133 £6

MANLEY M. Up the down escalator. Development and the International economy - a Jamaican case study. Andre Deutsch. 1987. 332pp. Paperback. Covers worn otherwise fine. MANLEYM016316 £5

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

MATLEY C.A. Outline of the geology of the Kingston District of Jamaica. Institute of Jamaica. 1946. 4pp + large coloured folding map. 1st ed., clean in buff card covers. MATLEYCA014239 £8

MAY C. An account of the wonderful preservation of the ship Terra Nova of London, Peter Daniel Commander, homeward bound from Virginia. Written by Charles May, Mate in the said ship. London. Circa 1700. Pages 345-358 of Churchill's Collected Voyages. Bound with 'An account of the King of Mocha, and of his Country.' (Pages 355-357). Very fine bound in marbled papers. The Terra Nova arrived at Port Royal in Jamaica in 1688 and sailed from there for England but was badly damaged in a storm. There is a description of the cargo which included a large quantity of gold.MAYC016486 £50

MAYS J. Jamaica: Caribbean Challenge. A people's primer by the EPICA Task Force. Washington. 1979. 119 large pp. Paperback. Clean. MAYSJ016699 £12

MCCULLOCH Dr W.E. Your health in the Caribbean. Pioneer Press, Kingston. 1955. viii + 149pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Clean. MCCULLOC017157 £8

MCFARLANE J.E.C. Selected shorter poems. Pioneer Press, Jamaica. 1954. 93pp. 1st impression, December 1954. Paperback. Clean. Poems by Poet Laureate of Jamaica.MCFARLAN017156 £35

MCKAY C. Banjo. The X Press. 2000. 284pp. Paperback. Fine. Novel set in Marseille by Jamaican born author.MCKAYC017087 £3

MISSIONARY MAGAZINE Vol. XXV No 1 London. 1846 (Mar). 14pp. Disbound. Fine. Cover has woodcut view of Davyton Chapel, Jamaica and contents incl. 1pp article on the Station, situated near Ridgmount.MISSIONA019244 £16

MISSIONARY MAGAZINE Vol. XXIV No. 2 London. 1846 (Sep). 14pp. Disbound. Fine. Cover has woodcut view of Freeman Chapel, Kingston, Jamaica and contents incl. 1.5 pp article on the Station.MISSIONA019243 £16

MORDECAI P. Jamaica Woman. An anthology of poems. Heinemann Educational Books. 1980. 110pp. Paperback. Fine. MORDECAI016967 £18

MORRIS J. Fever Grass. Collins & Sangster. 1969. 255pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Adventure novel set in Jamaica.MORRISJ016309 £2

MORRIS M. Seven Jamaican Poets. An anthology of recent poetry. Bolivar Press. 1971. 58pp. 1st ed. Card covers with slightly torn D/W. MORRISM017148 £7

MORRIS M. Examination Centre. New Beacon Books. 1992. 52pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Fine. Poems by Jamaican born author.MORRISM017123 £8

MORRIS M. The Pond. (Revised Edition) New Beacon Books Ltd. 1997. 51pp. Paperback. Fine. Book of poems by Jamaican writer.MORRISM016986 £5

MUNROE T. The Marxist Left in Jamaica 1940 - 1950. Working Paper No. 15 Institute of Social & Economic Research, Mona. 1977. 76 large pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. MUNROET016698 £8

MURRAY JORDAN J. In the West Indies. J. Murray Jordan, Philadelphia. 1897. 24pp. Clean in creased and detached original pictorial card covers. 10 x 8" Photographic views of the islands with many of Barbados and Jamaica.MURRAYJO017826 £60

MURRAY R.N. J.J. Mills. His own account of his life and times. William Collins and Sangster (Jamaica) Ltd. 1969. 192pp + photo frontispiece. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. Biography of the Jamaican born in 1888 in St Ann who died in 1966.MURRAYRN017093 £35

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

NORRIS K. Jamaica. The search for identity. Oxford Uni Press. 1962. vii + 103pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Clean. NORRISK016615 £9

OGILVIE W.G. Cactus Village. Pioneer Press, Kngston, Jamaica. 1953. viii + 171pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Fine. Novel set in Jamaica.OGILVIEW016327 £40

OGILVIE W.G. The Ghost Bank. The Jamaican Prize novel of 1953. Pioneer Press, Kngston, Jamaica. 1953. viii + 124pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Fine. Novel set in Jamaica.OGILVIEW016328 £40

OLLEY P.P. Guide to Jamaica. Kingston, Jamaica. 1937. 346pp + 3 folding maps. 1st ed., clean in original cloth with battered D/W. Well illustrated.OLLEYPP018214 £16

OSBOURNE I. Prodigal. Antillean, London. 1986. 182pp. 1st ed., clean in worn D/W. Novel set in Jamaica.OSBOURNE016641 £8

PALMER C. Everard A broken vessel. Pioneer Press, Kingston, Jamaica. 1960. v + 112pp. Paperback. Inscribed presentation copy from the author. Light crease to front cover. Novel set in Jamaica.PALMERCE016326 £20

PARISER H.S. Jamaica. A visitor's guide. Hunter Pub. Inc. 1993. 240pp. Paperback. Fine. Guidebook with colour photo plates.PARISERH007992 £6

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

PATTERSON H.O. The Children of Sisyphus. Bolivar Press, Jamaica. 1974. 206pp. Paperback. Reprint of 1964 ed. Fine. Novel set in Kingston's shanty town.PATTERSO016970 £12

PAYNE A.J. Politics in Jamaica. C. Hurst & Co., London. 1988. xi + 196pp. Paperback. Fine. PAYNEAJ016710 £7

PHILLIPPO J.M. Jamaica: its past and present state. Philadelphia. 1843. 176pp. 1st U.S. ed. fine in contemporary half calf binding with marbled boards, rather worn. The author was a Baptist missionary who spent 20 years in Jamaica. Geographical, historical and social surveys are included but greatest value lies in his description of the religious state of the island.PHILLIPP017992 £160

POPE D. Harry Morgan's Way. The biography of Sir Henry Morgan 1635-1684. Secker & Warburg. 1977. xx + 379pp + plates. 1st ed., a few light pencil annotations in margins (of some interest) otherwise clean in fine D/W. Biography of the pirate who became governor of Jamaica.POPED014194 £22

POST K. Strike the iron. A colony at war: Jamaica 1939-1945 Humanties Press, New Jersey. 1981. 2 vols., 567pp. 1st ed., fine in orig. cloth. Academic study of economic and social history.POSTK003267 £35

QUARTERLY REVIEW Papers relating to the Affairs of Jamaica. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. February, 1866. John Murray. 1866. pp221 - 259 in complete volume of book, fine in worn original card covers. Contemporary discussion of the Parliamentary Papers investigating the Morant Bay rebellion.QUARTERL018482 £35

RAMPHAL S.S. To care for CARICOM. The need for an ethos of community. Guyana Lithographic. 1975. 14pp. Paperback. Fine. Speech delivered by Secretary General of the Commonwealth at the dinner held in his honour by the CARICOM Council of Ministers at Montego Bay.RAMPHALS016359 £8

RANSTON J. From we were boys. The story of the magnificent cousins Manley and Bustamante. Bustamante Institute of Public and International Affairs. 1989. vi + 201pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Fine. RANSTONJ017070 £45

REDCAM T. Orange Valley and other poems. Pioneer Press, Kingston, Jamaica. 1951. 143pp. 1st ed., clean in slightly worn pictorial card covers. The author was poet laureate of Jamaica from 1910-1933.REDCAMT016311 £20

REED W. The History of Sugar and sugar yielding plants, together with an epitome of every notable process of sugar extraction, and manufacture, from the earliest times to the present. Longmans, Green & Co., London. 1866. viii + 206pp and 2 folding tables. 1st ed., very fine in fine original green blindstamped cloth with gilt title lettering on spine and front cover. Well researched history with much on the islands in the Caribbean especially Jamaica.REEDW016760 £160

REID Cap. M. The Maroon: or, planter life in Jamaica. New York. 1874. 383pp + engraved plates. Fine in blue orig. cloth. A fictional work set at the end of the C18th giving a good picture of West Indian life.REIDCAPM009000 £95

REID S. Strategy of resource bargaining. A case study of the Jamaican Bauxite Alumina Industry since 1974. Uni. of the West Indies, Jamaica. 1978. viii + 111pp. Clean in creased yellow card covers. REIDS016336 £12

RHODES M.K. Birds and Flowers of Jamaica. Novelty Trading Co. Ltd. 1971. 73pp. 1st ed., clean in pictorial boards. Contains 36 full colour illustrations from original watercolours by the author.RHODESMK017024 £5

ROBBINS J.M. Manuscript Journal of Royal Engineers officer kept from December 1895 to July 1896 describing a voyage from Plymouth to Jamaica via Barbados and army life on the two islands. NA. 1895. 103pp + loose photo, newspaper clippings and R.A. magazine in large vellum bound Army Book with marbled boards. Mostly concerns life on Up Park Camp.ROBBINSJ017844 £135

ROBERTS W.A. Sir Henry Morgan. Buccaneer and Governor. Pioneer Press, Kingston, Jamaica. 1952. 165pp + plates. Paperback. Fine. ROBERTSW016323 £12

ROBERTS W.A. The Single Star. Pioneer Press, Kingston. 1956. 315pp. Paperback. Some page edges creased. Novel set in Jamaica.ROBERTSW017155 £3

ROBINSON C. The Fighting Maroons of Jamaica. William Collins and Sangster (Jamaica) Ltd. 1969. 160pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in D/W. History of the maroons, renegade slaves, in Jamaica.ROBINSON016994 £12

ROBINSON C. Fight for Freedom. Kingston Publishers Ltd. 1987. xiii + 178pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Fine. Description of slave resistence in Jamaica before emancipation.ROBINSON017182 £6

ROBSON G. Missions of the United Presbyterian Church. The story of our Jamaica Mission with sketch of our Trinidad Mission. Edinburgh. 1894. 135pp + coloured folding map and frontispiece. 1st ed., very fine apart from map which has been misfolded, in fine original pictorial green cloth. Includes many illustrations of early churches on the island and a good chronological history of the progress of the mission.ROBSONG018057 £85

ROLLINS J.W. Rose Hall Jamaica. Story of a People.. A legend.. and a legacy. Rose Hall Ltd. 1973. xxix + 42 col. plates, folio. 1st ed., fine in pictorial case. Coffee table book of photos of Jamaica, particularly Rose Hall plantation house.ROLLINSJ013397 £22

ROUSSEAU P.H.O. Negotiating Change. Pat Rousseau and the Bauxite Negotiations 1974-7. Heinemann. 1987. ix + 158pp. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. Bauxite industry in Jamaica.ROUSSEAU017041 £25

ROY N. Black Albino. Longman Caribbean. 1986. 206pp. Paperback. Back cover creased otherwise clean. Reprint of 1961 ed. Historical novel set in the Cockpit country of Jamaica.ROYN016974 £7

ROY N. No Black Sparrows. Heinemann. 1989. 217pp. Paperback. Fine. Novel set in Jamaica in the 1930's by Jamaican writer.ROYN016734 £8

SALKEY A. Anancy's Score. Bogle-L'Ouverture Pubs. 1973. 178pp. 1st ed., very fine in almost fine D/W. Collection of short stories illustrated by Jamaican artist, Errol Lloyd.SALKEYA017000 £65

SALKEY A. Caribbean Essays. An anthology edited ad introduced by Andrew Salkey. Evans Brothers Ltd. 1973. 131pp. Paperback. Fine. SALKEYA017013 £8

SALKEY A. Jamaica. Hutchinson of London. 1973. 107pp. Paperback. Fine. Poem about Jamaica.SALKEYA017033 £5

SALKEY A. Joey Tyson. Bogle-L'Ouverture Pubs. 1974. 114pp. Paperback. Fine. Children's novel set in Jamaica.SALKEYA016971 £5

SALKEY A. Come home, Malcolm Heartland. Hutchinsons of London. 1976. 206pp. 1st ed., fine in almost fine D/W. Novel about a Jamaican lawyer living in England.SALKEYA016999 £60

SALKEY A. In the Border Country and other stories. Bogle-L'Ouverture Press. 1998. 270pp. Large paperback. Fine. Posthumous collection of stories.SALKEYA017035 £10

SAMUEL Rev. P. The Wesleyan - Methodist Missions, in Jamaica and Honduras, delineated: containing a description of the principal stations. Together with a consecutive account of the rise and progress of the work of God at each. London. 1850. 320pp + 33 litho plates. 1st ed., fine in orig. cloth, rebacked. 8vo. The author was a missionary in Jamaica for 12 years. Very fine tinted litho plates, mostly of Mission houses in Jamaica.SAMUELRE012214 £1,100

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

SCOTT Sir S.D. To Jamaica and Back. Chapman & Hall, London. 1876. viii + 324pp + frontispiece. 1st ed., clean in original worn cloth, spine badly worn at top and contents shaken but with no loose pages. Description of the island written by a British military historian. Very scarce.SCOTTSIR017841 £225

SENIOR O. The Message is Change. A perspective of the 1972 General Elections. Kingston Pub. Ltd. 1972. 98pp. Paperback. Fine. Politics in Jamaica.SENIORO016966 £15

SENIOR O. Talking of Trees. Calabash, Jamaica. 1985. vi + 86pp. 1st ed. Fine in card covers with slightly marked D/W. Poems by Jamaican author.SENIORO017150 £20

SENIOR O. Summer Lightning and other stories. Longman. 1986. 134pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Inscribed by author on title page. Fine. Short stories by Jamaican author.SENIORO017022 £12

SEWELL W.G. The ordeal of free labor in the British West Indies. Harper Bros., New York. 1861. 325pp + publisher's catalogue. 1st ed., very fine in original blindstamped brown cloth. An important study of the abuses made of the apprenticeship system. The author made a detailed tour through the islands. Fine descriptions of Barbados, Trinidad and Jamaica. Recommended.SEWELLWG018152 £180

SHERLOCK P. Norman Manley. A biography. Macmillan. 1980. 224pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Occasional pencil underlining. SHERLOCK017067 £7

SHORE J. In old St James. A book of Parish chronicles. Containing the story of the Jamaica ancestry of Mrs Barrett Browning; the true tale of Rose Hall; what an estate slave-book tells, etc. Kingston, Jamaica. 1911. 160pp + plates. 1st. ed., fine in orig. worn boards, almost detached, requiring new spine. Historical notes on various aspects of Jamaican history.SHOREJ015882 £32

SMITH J.J. William Knibb: Missionary in Jamaica. Alexander & Shepheard. 1896. 134pp + 12 plates. 1st ed., fine in orig. cloth. Biography with good photo illusts. of Jamaica.SMITHJJ005929 £85

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

SMITH M.J. Bird watching in Jamaica. Pioneer Press, Kingston. 1956. 159pp + plates (some in colour), 1st ed., P.B. Attractive illustrations by the author's daughter (?)SMITHMJ008013 £9

SOMERVILLE Dr J.A. Man of Color. Pioneer Press, Kingston, Jamaica. 1951. 134pp. Paperback. Fine. Autobiography with foreward by P.M. Sherlock.SOMERVIL016319 £8

STAFFORD REID V. The Jamaicans. Institute of Jamaica. 1978. 266pp. 2nd ed. Paperback. Clean. Historical novel set in Jamaica.STAFFORD016705 £12

STEPHENS E.H. & J.D. Democratic Socialism in Jamaica. The Political movement and social transformation in dependent capitalism. Macmillan. 1986. 423pp. Paperback. Pages slightly browned and covers worn. STEPHENS016300 £6

STONE C. Electoral Behaviour and Public Opinion in Jamaica. Uni. of the W.I. 1974. 107pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Some light pencil underlining. STONEC017200 £5

STONE C. Essays on power and change in Jamaica. Uni of the W.I. 1976. iii + 499 large pp. 1st ed., clean in green card covers. STONEC016338 £15

STONE C. The Political Opinions of the Jamaican People. (1976-81) Blackett Publishers, Kingston. 1982. 78pp. 1st ed. Clean in green card covers. STONEC017149 £6

STONE C. Class, State and Democracy in Jamaica. Blackett Publishers, Kingston. 1985. 196pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Occasional pencil notes in margin and slightly loose. STONEC017153 £8

STONE C. Democracy and Clientelism in Jamaica. Transaction Books. 1985. 262pp. Oversize Paperback. Clean. STONEC016989 £15

STONE C. Politics versus Economics. The 1989 Elections in Jamaica. Heinemann. 1989. 170pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Clean. STONEC017175 £9

TAYLOR S.A.G. The capture of Jamaica. Pioneer Press, Kingston Jamaica. 1951. 164pp + folding map. 1st impression., clean in slightly worn pictorial card covers. Stories of Jamaican history.TAYLORSA017790 £18

TAYLOR S.A.G. Buccaneer Bay. Pioneer Press, Kingston. 1952. 243pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Fine. Historical novel set in Jamaica.TAYLORSA017158 £12

THELWELL M. The Harder they Come. Pluto Press Ltd. 1980. 399pp. Paperback. Clean. Novel based on the life of a legendary gunman and songwriter who lived in Kingston in the late 1950's.THELWELL017036 £3

THOMAS M.E. Jamaica and voluntary laborers from Africa 1840-1865. Uni presses of Florida. 1974. 211pp. 1st ed., fine in orig. cloth. Good historical study.THOMASME007072 £18

THOME J.A. Emancipation in the West Indies A six months tour in Antigua, Barbadoes and Jamaica in the year 1837. American Anti-Slavery Society, New York. 1838. 489pp, 1st ed., occasional tone spotting otherwise fine in orig. slightly worn cloth. Detailed report on the workings of the apprentice system in each of these islands with many details of individual estates and descriptions of court sessions, etc.THOMEJA007209 £125

TIMPSON G.F. Jamaican Interlude. 1821-1941 Ed. J. Burrow & Co., Ltd. 1938. xiii + 87pp + tipped in Addendum + plates. 1st ed., fine in blue card covers. Written by a former Governor the work concentrates on the period around emancipation and apprenticeship.TIMPSONG019233 £45

TIMPSON G.F. Jamaican Interlude. 1821-1941 Ed. J. Burrow & Co., Ltd. 1938. xiii + 87pp + tipped in Addendum + plates. 1st ed., fine in original D/W. Inscribed by the author on front end paper. TIMPSONG019234 £75

TOMLINSON H.M. The sea and the jungle. Being the narrative of the voyage of the tramp steamer Capella from Swansea to Santa Maria de Belem do Grao Para in the Brezils, and thence 2000 miles along the forests of the Amazon and Madeira rivers to the San Antonio falls; afterwards returning to Barbados for orders, and going by way of Jamaica to Tampa in Florida where she loaded for home. Done in the years 1909 and 1910. Duckworth. 1930. 343pp. 2nd ed. with 16 woodcut illustrations by Clare Leighton. Fine in orig. worn and stained cloth. TOMLINSO005784 £25

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

URE J. The Quest for Captain Morgan. Constable, London. 1983. 231pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Retracing the footsteps of the famous pirate who became governor of Jamaica.UREJ014263 £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

VILLIERS-STUART H. Adventures amidst equatorial forests and rivers of South America; Also in the West Indies and the wilds of Florida. To which is added 'Jamaica revisited.' John Murray, London. 1891. 268 + xxi pp + plates and folding map. 8vo. Slightly shaken in original worn pictorial cloth. The author was a liberal politician and an adventurous traveller. This volume covers his travels in Surinam, the Orinoco, Florida and the Caribbean with much on Jamaica. Attractive line drawings.VILLIERS016479 £145

WALCOTT D. Midsummer. Faber & Faber. 1984. 79pp. Paperback. Fine. Poetry.WALCOTTD017151 £2

WALCOTT D. The Arkansas Testament. Faber & Faber. 1988. 117pp. Paperback. Fine. WALCOTTD016725 £4

WALCOTT D. Omeros. Faber & Faber. 1990. 325pp. Paperback. Signed and dated by author on front end paper. Clean. Poetry.WALCOTTD017193 £8

WARD C.J. Worlds Fair. Jamaica at Chicago. An account descriptive of the colony of Jamaica with historical and other appendices. Wm. J. Pell, New York. 1893. 95pp + folding map. 1st ed., fine in orig. blue decorated cloth. Good description of all the parishes of the island with attractive photo illustrations.WARDCJ015459 £75

WESLEY A Missionary Present about the Black Children of Jamaica. London. 1870 (circa). 32pp. 1st ed., fine in original worn pictorial card covers. Description of the life of Jamaican children and the work of the missionaries illustrated with many attractive woodcuts.WESLEY017598 £60

WEST INDIES Report of the Royal Commission appointed in December 1882, to inquire into the public revenues, expenditure, debts, and liabilities of the islands of Jamaica, Grenada, St Vincent, Tobago, and St Lucia, and the Leeward Islands; with a despatch thereon from the Secretary of State to Governor Sir Henry Norman, K.C.B., C.I.E. H.M.S.O. 1884. 3 vols. 246 + 203 + 193 + 22pp + coloured folding map of Jamaica and maps of Leewards and Windward Is. Folio. Clean in original blue paper covers, detached on one part. Part IV has become disbound and page edges freyed. WESTINDI016959 £90

WHITE N. George Atlas Headley. Institute of Jamaica. 1974. 161pp + appendix. 1st ed. Paperback. Fine. Illustrated biography of the famous Jamaican cricketer.WHITEN017037 £16

WHITELEY H. Three Months in Jamaica, in 1832: comprising a residence of seven weeks on a sugar plantation. J. Hatchard & Son, London. 1833. 24pp, 1st ed., pamphlet in modern brown card covers. Anti slavery pamphlet with detail of slave punishments and maltreatment.WHITELEY017847 £200

WILL H.A. Constitutional change in the British West Indies 1880-1903. With special reference to Jamaica, British Guiana and Trinidad. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1970. 331pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. WILLHA017728 £28

WILLIAMS G. The Measure of a Man. Toronto. 1970. 97pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Fine. Signed by author on inside cover and with signed letter included. Novel by Jamaican author.WILLIAMS016731 £15

WILLIAMS J.J. Psychic phenomena of Jamaica. Dial Press, New York. 1934. 309pp. 1st ed., fine in orig. brown cloth, worn at head and tail of spine. Study of witchcraft, magic and funeral customs.WILLIAMS015417 £60

WRIGHT I.A. The Spanish version of Sir Anthony Shirley's raid of Jamaica, 1597. Hispanic American Historical Review. 1922. 22pp. Contemporary reprint from journal in orig. boards retaining card covers. Extracts from 4 previously unpublished documents existing in the Archivo General De Indias, Seville. Very scarce.WRIGHTIA007325 £45

WRIGHT P. Lady Nugent's Journal of her residence in Jamaica from 1801 to 1805. Institute of Jamaica. 1966. xxxiv + 331pp + plates, revised ed., fine in D/W. Lady Nugent's husband was governor of Jamaica. Gives a vivid impression of planter society.WRIGHTP014998 £35

WRIGHT R. Revels in Jamaica 1682-1838. Plays and Players of a Century, tumblers and conjurors, musical refugees and solitary showmen, dinners, balls and cockfights, darky mummers and other memories of high times and merry hearts. Dodd, Mead & Co. 1937. 378pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in creased D/W. Fine well illust. history of theatre in Jamaica.WRIGHTR012512 £75