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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BROWN H. Asylum Island. Methuen & Co 1950 232pp 1st ed., clean in worn D/W. Novel set on mythical caribbean island. £6 BLACK C.V. Tales of old Jamaica Collins, London 1970 127pp, fine in D/W. Includes stories of Annie Palmer, the white witch of Rose Hall and the pirates, Anne Bonney and Mary Read. £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 library 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. Original worn brown cloth. A scarce work. £125 BETTON W.G. MELBURNE A handbook or descriptive reader on the British West Indies Liverpool 1897 40pp. 1st ed., fine in original blue cloth boards. Rare - not recorded by Mitchell. £75 BARKER J.S. Summer spectacular. The West Indies v. England, 1963. Collins 1963 128pp + plates. Fine in D/W. £4 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. £80 ASPINALL A.E. The pocket guide to the West Indies. British Guiana, British Honduras, Bermuda, the Spanish Main, Surinam and the Panama Canal. Methuen & Co., London 1939 xv + 525pp + ads., plates and folding maps, fine in orig. orange cloth. Scarce interleaved ed. £38 ASPINALL A.E. A wayfarer in the West Indies. Methuen & Co 1928 x + 244pp + plates. 1st ed., slight foxing to some page edges otherwise fine in slightly damaged D/W. Descriptions of the islands with much on history. Seldom seen with D/W. £40 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. £30 ANTHONY M. The Year in San Fernando. Heinemann Educational Books 1985 xix + 137pp. Paperback. Clean. Novel set in Trinidad. £3 ANON Motor Fuel from Molasses. Walter E. Lummus Co., Boston, U.S.A. 1924 62pp + publisher's ad. 1st ed., University of London bookplate on inside cover but with only two small handstamps also on inside cover. Fine in pictorial boards. The company had an agent in Cuba. Very scarce. £90 ANON British Colonial Slavery, compared with that of Pagan antiquity London: James Ridgway, Piccadilly 1830 iv + [4] + 70pp + 18pp. 1st ed., clean in modern cloth, bound with various other publications. 'Holds Caribbean slavery to be of a very mild, mitigated, character as compared with that in the Roman empire,' Ragatz. £145 ANON The Importance of Jamaica to Great Britain, consider'd. With some account of that island, from its discovery in 1492 to this time: and a list of the Governors and Presidents, with an account of their towns, harbours, bays, buildings, inhabitants, whites and negroes, &c... In a letter to a Gentleman. In which is added, a postscript of the benefits which may arise by keeping of Carthagena, to Great Britain and our American Colonies.. London: Printed for A. Dodd 1744 (circa) 81pp + [1] publisher's advertisment. 1st ed., title page with repaired tear and slightly soiled otherwise mostly clean in modern cloth, lacking original end papers. A rare early work written at the time of Vernon's capture of Cartagena. £775 ANON A View of the Depredations and Ravages committed by the Spaniards on the British Trade and Navigation. Most humbly offer'd to the consideration of the Parliament of Great Britain London: Printed for W. Hinchcliffe at Dryden's Head under the Royal Exchange 1731 44pp. 1st ed., very fine in modern grey sugar papers. Describes Spanish attacks on British shipping in the Caribbean. £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. £240 SLESIN S. and ET AL Caribbean Style. Clarkson N. Potter, New York 1985 290 large pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Profusely illustrated with colour photo plates. Guide to Caribbean architecture with views of many of the old plantation houses. £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. Many colour and black and white photo illustrations. One of the few works on Caribbean architecture. £18 ALLEYNE W. Barbados at War 1939-1945. An historical account. Barbados 1999 40pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. Well illustrated history with much on U Boat war. £8 HARTLAND Maj. M. A concise and illustrated Military History of Barbados. 1627 - 2007. Miller Publishing Co., Barbados 2007 148 large pp. 1st ed., new in card covers. Profusely illustrated history of the West India regiments and Barbados Volunteer Force. Highly recommended. £10 DOMINICA Dominica Chronicle Vol V No 4 to Vol V No 294 Roseau 1918 Newspapers bound in later blue cloth. Pages browned and some very fragile. Some have suffered loss. News on the war plus interesting local adverts. £120 Previous page 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