Puerto Rico

CRAMPSEY R.A. Puerto Rico. David & Charles. 1973. 206pp + plates. 1st ed. Fine in D/W. Good general guide.CRAMPSEY011104 £8

GAYER A.D. The sugar economy of Puerto Rico. Columbia Uni. Press, New York. 1938. 326pp. 1st ed., ex libre with a few small h/s's, fine in orig. cloth. Authorative study.GAYERAD002957 £30

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

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

MATTERS C.V. Riding and roping. The memoirs of J. Will Harris. Inter American Uni. of Puerto Rico. 1977. 211 large pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Biography of a Presbyterian missionary who founded what was to become the university of P.R.MATTERSC005580 £20

MAUS C.P. Puerto Rico in pictures and poetry. Caxton Printers, Idaho. 1947. 196pp. Fine in D/W. Poems and many fine photo plates.MAUSCP005577 £22

NICHOLAS W.H. Growing pains beset Puerto Rico. National Geographical Magazine Vol. XCIX. 1951 Apr. 40pp article in comp. magazine. Many colour and B & W photo plates.NICHOLAS011628 £6

OSUNA J.J. A history of education in Puerto Rico. Uni. of P.R. 1949. 657pp. 2nd ed., fine in orig. cloth. Authorative study tracing the history of education back to the C16th.OSUNAJJ005619 £30

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

PORTO RICO Report of the Commissioner of Education for Porto Rico to the secretary of the interior, U.S.A. for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1906. Washington. 1907. 273pp + photo plates. 1st ed. University of London bookplate on inside front cover and a couple of small library h/s's otherwise fine in library brown cloth binding. Attractive photo plates of different school buildings on the island.PORTORIC017853 £25

RIGAU J. Puerto Rico 1900. Turn-of-the -Century Architecture in the Hispanic Caribbean. 1890 - 1930. Rizzoli, New York. 1992. 232 large pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. any colour and black and white photo illustrations. One of the few works on Caribbean architecture.RIGAUJ014181 £28

SAFA H.I. The urban poor of Puerto Rico. A study in development and inequality. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc. 1974. 116pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. SAFAHI008047 £8

STEINER S. The islands. The worlds of the Puerto Ricans. Harper & Row, New York. 1974. 535pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in D/W. History and description of the island and its people.STEINERS005769 £12

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

VAIA D. Plantation tokens of Puerto Rico. Reference listing of Haciendas and tokens used (1800-1900) Vantage Press. 1980. xiv + [2] + 71pp + 2pp loose supplement. 1st ed. Large Paperback. Fine. VAIAD016819 £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

WARMKE G.L. Caribbean seashells. A guide to the marine mollusks of Puerto Rico and other West Indian Islands, Bermuda and the Lower Florida Keys. Livingston Pub. Co., Wynnewood, USA. 1962. 348pp. 2nd printing., top right corner bumped causing slight crease in margin throughout text, in original decorated blue cloth. Detailed guide with good illustrations.WARMKEGL016808 £25