There is a surprisingly rich resource of books on the West Indies.  Only a few books on the Caribbean are commonly found in bookshops but there are an enormous range of titles in existence.  There is a fine online bibliography of West Indies books, mostly sorted by author, compiled by Don Mitchell at http://books.ai

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FROUDE J.A. The English in the West Indies or the bow of Ulysses. Longmans, Green & Co., London 1888 x + 373pp + publishers catalogue + engraved frontispiece and 8 plates. 1st ed., clean in original decorated blue cloth, slightly marked. Much on Dominica, Jamaica and Trinidad. £40 WATERSTON J.M. The Fungi of Bermuda. Hamilton 1947 iii + 305pp. 1st ed., clean in original blue cloth. £60 BARBADOS CRICKET ASSOCIATION 100 Years of organised cricket in Barbados 1892-1992. Barbados 1992 139 large pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. £16 RAINSFORD M. An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti: comprehending a view of the principal transactions in the revolution of Saint Domingo; with its antient and modern state. London 1805 xxiii + [1] + 467pp + index + [3] publisher's ads. + folding maps and plates. 1st ed., very clean in original full calf, rebacked. The map and plan toned due to having been printed on inferior paper. £1200 BAHAMAS Laws of the Bahamas. Passed in the session of the Legislature fom the 4th February to the 30th April, 1896 Nassau, Bahamas 1896 Bound with later parts complete to May 1903. Ex library in library cloth binding with handstamps and labels but text clean but lightly browned. Title page loose.. £40 BAHAMAS Laws of the Bahamas. Passed in the session of the Legislature fom the 29th February to the 9th June, 1904. Nassau, Bahamas 1904 Bound with later parts complete to July 1907. Ex library in library cloth binding with handstamps and labels but text clean, slightly browned. £40 BAHAMAS Bahamas. Acts passed in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of His Majesty King George V; being the first special session and the fifth session of the General Assembly of the Bahama Islands begun and holden on the 10th day of January, 1911. Nassau, Bahamas 1915 Bound with later parts complete to 1919. Ex library in library cloth binding with handstamps and labels but text clean. £40 BAHAMAS Bahamas. Acts passed in the tenth and eleventh years of the reign of His Majesty King George V; being the second session of the General Assembly of the Bahama Islands begun and holden on the 18th day of February, 1919. Nassau, Bahamas 1920 Bound with later parts complete to 1923. Ex library in library cloth binding with handstamps and labels but text clean. £40 BAHAMAS Bahamas. Acts passed in the second and third years of the reign of His Majesty King George VI; being the fifth session of the General Assembly of the Bahama Islands begun and holden on the 18th day of June 1935. Nassau, Bahamas 1939 Bound with later parts complete to 1945. Ex library in library cloth binding with handstamps and labels but text clean. £30 BAHAMAS Bahamas. Acts passed in 1946. Nassau, Bahamas 1946 Bound with later parts complete to 1952. Ex library in library cloth binding with handstamps and labels but text clean. £30 BAHAMAS Bahamas. Acts passed in 1953. Nassau, Bahamas 1946 Bound with later parts complete to 1956. Ex library in library cloth binding with handstamps and labels but text clean. £30 BAHAMAS Nassau and the Bahama Islands in full natural colour. Bahamian News Ltd. 1970 (circa) 16pp. Fine in card covers. Colour photo views of the islands. £5 HANNAU H.W. Nassau and Paradise Island in the Bahamas. Hannau Inc. 1975 (circa) 34pp. Clean in card covers. 50 colour photos of the islands. £4 SUMMERSCALE K. The Queen of Whale Cay. Fourth Estate 1998 248pp + photo plates. Paperback. Fine. Biography of Joe Carstairs who bought Whale Cay and ran it as her own kingdom in the 1930's. £4 POWLES L.D. The Land of the Pink Pearl or recollections of life in the Bahamas. London 1888 xi + 321pp + folding map and frontispiece. 1st ed., clean in original cloth, spine faded. Fascinating account of life in the islands by an English circuit judge. Much on abuse of the apprentice system. £185 DEAVILLE WALKER F. The Call of the West Indies. The romance of Methodist Work and Opportunity in the West Indies and adjacent regions. Cargate Press 1933 190pp + plates. 1st ed., clean in D/W. £16 HAKEWILL J. A picturesque tour of the island of Jamaica. From drawings made in the years 1820 and 1821. The Mill Press Ltd 1990 16pp + 21 plates + text, folio, 11 x 17" Facsimile ltd. ed. reprint of 1825 ed., very fine in half calf in slipcase. 500 copies printed, this one marked 'Binder's copy. Not for sale.' £500 TUCKER T. Bermuda's story. Bermuda Book Stores 1968 213pp. 6th impression, fine in torn and toned D/W. Brief history of the islands. £7 ANON A Happy Month in Jamaica. United Fruit Co 1900 (circa) 48pp + folding map. Fine in card covers, front cover detached and creased. £40 ANTIGUA Letter from Ker B. Hamilton to Rt. Hon. Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, M.P. No. 112 Antigua 1858 6pp printed letter on blue paper. 8.25 x 13in Locally printed letter replying to a Memorial addressed to Her Majesty concerning a riot in Antigua on March 23rd, 1858 originating from a quarrel between Thomas Barnard a native of Barbuda and Henry Jarvis of Antigua. £65 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 Next page

Links to other West Indies sites

CaribSeek - The Caribbean Search Directory  

Caribbean Vacation Guide

http://caribbean-guide.info/

Make the Caribbean Guide your first stop for learning about the advantages of traveling to these gorgeous islands.

Family history of Jamaica

http://users.pullman.com/mitchelm/jamaica.htm

Sources of genealogy and historical information

Turks and Caicos Islands Museum

http://www.tcmuseum.org