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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MELVILLE J.H. The Great White Fleet. Vantage Press 1976 [10] + 275pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. History of the shipping line. £25 HUMPHREYS R.A. The diplomatic history of British Honduras 1638-1901. Oxford Uni. Press 1961 x + 196pp + folding maps in rear pocket. 1st ed., clean in D/W which has been covered and taped to inside boards. £30 COLLAR J.D. and COLLAR G.H. Belize (British Honduras). The Country and People, Tourism and Investment. Salas Offest, Mexico 1972 52pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. Scarce. £20 BUSHELL J.J. Bushell's picturesque Bermuda handbook The standard yearbook of the Bermudas alias Somers Islands. J.J. Bushell 1939 200 + liv + plates, folding maps and ads. 30th ed., fine in card covers. Many revisions and new photos. £36 MORTON S.E. John Morton of Trinidad. Pioneer Missionary of the Presbyterian Church in Canada to the East Indians in the British West Indies. Westminster Co., Toronto 1916 xiv + 491pp + plates and maps. 1st ed., clean in slightly damaged original green cloth, a few pages loose. Description of missionary work in Iere Village, San Fernando, Savana Grande and Tunapuna. Much on education. £140 KIRKE H. Twenty-five years in British Guiana. London 1898 x + [1] + 364pp + plates and coloured folding map. 1st ed., fine in original blue cloth. Fascinating account of life in the colony by a British magistrate. £125 DELANY F.X. A History of the Catholic Church in Jamaica B.W.I. 1494 to 1929. Jesuit Mission Press, New York 1930 xi + 292pp + photos. 1st ed., ex library with h/s on front end paper otherwise very clean in original green cloth with library number on spine. £36 CUNDALL F. The handbook of Jamaica for 1926 comprising historical, statistical and general information concerning the island, compiled from Official and other reliable sources. Govt. Printing Office, Jamaica 1926 viii + 671 + x pp + plates + large folding map. 1st ed., clean in original red decorated cloth. Spine badly faded. £75 NEWTON A.P. The European nations in the West Indies 1493-1688. A & C Black 1933 xviii + 357pp + folding maps. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Scarce thus. An important historical study. £40 JOHNSTON Sir H.H. The negro in the New World. Methuen & Co., London 1910 xxix + 499pp + folding map. 1st ed. Ex library with label on inside cover and h/s on title page. Internally clean but with some creased pages, bound in soiled library cloth. 7.5 x 10in Includes chapters on most of the Caribbean islands with many good photo illustrations unique to this work. Much on history of slavery and ethnic backgrounds all sadly with a very racist slant and attitude. Fine sections on the Bahamas and Jamaica. £75 EADEN J. The Memoirs of Pere Labat. 1693-1705 Frank Cass & Co 1970 xx + 263pp. Facsimile reprint of 1931 ed., fine in green cloth. Much on Dominica and Martinique plus a short passage on Saba. £75 DAVIS M. Antigua Black. Portrait of an Island People. Scrimshaw Press, San Francisco 1973 143 large pp. 1st ltd. ed. of 5000 copies. Corners slightly bumped otherwise fine in D/W. 10.5 x 12.5in Fine black and white photographs by Margo Davis plus colour reproductions of Clark's coloured aquatint views of Antigua. £45 BYER J.W. L/CPL SGT John Walter Byer Coronation Medals and Police Long Service medal. John Byer was in the Barbados Police Force and had a first class cricket career playing against the MCC in 1934. He was born in 1903 and died in 1988. Many background documents included detailing his cricket career. £200 BRIERLEY J.N. Trinidad: Then and Now. Being a series of sketches in connection with the progress and prosperity of Trinidad, and personal reminiscenses of life in that island 1874-1912. Trinidad 1912 [4] + 348pp + photo plates and adverts. 1st ed., fine in original worn green cloth. Very scarce. £425 BERMUDA The Bermuda Pocket Almanack Guide and Directory for the year of Our Lord 1925 Bermuda Press Ltd 1925 300pp + col. frontispiece + folding map, plates and adverts. Fine in original card covers. Very scarce. £175 ASPINALL A.E. The British West Indies. Their history, resources and progress. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, London 1912 xii + 435pp + plates and folding map. 1st ed., fine in worn original red cloth, rebacked. Definitive work giving descriptions of all the islands. £60 SALKEY A. Breaklight. An anthology of Caribbean poetry chosen, edited and introduced by Andrew Salkey. Hamish Hamilton 1971 266pp. 1st ed., fine in fair D/W. £6 SALE K. The Conquest of Paradise. Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy. Papermac 1992 453pp. Paperback. £2 SAINSBURY N. and FORTESCUE J.W. Calendar of state papers. Colonial Series. America and the West Indies. Preserved in the state papers department of Her Majestys public records office. 1697-1698. Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, London 1905 2 + xxxiv + 630pp + errata + HMSO catalogue. Large 8vo. Very fine in orig. blue-green decorated blindstamped cloth. Published between 1860-1969 the series covers the period 1577-1738 and provides a comprehensive summary of all State correspondence concerning America and the West Indies. Shorter documents are fully transcribed and larger ones are summarised. Noted are many letters from important figures in West Indian history including Codrington plus many from Governors of the colonies. A very important historical source. £40 SAINSBURY N. and FORTESCUE J.W. Calendar of state papers. Colonial Series. America and the West Indies. Preserved in the state papers department of Her Majestys public records office. 1696-1697. Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, London 1904 2 + xxix + 714pp + errata + HMSO catalogue. Large 8vo. Very fine in orig. blue-green decorated blindstamped cloth. Published between 1860-1969 the series covers the period 1577-1738 and provides a comprehensive summary of all State correspondence concerning America and the West Indies. Shorter documents are fully transcribed and larger ones are summarised. Noted are many letters from important figures in West Indian history including Codrington plus many from Governors of the colonies. A very important historical source. £40 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