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1850 'God Hath Made of One Blood all Nations of Men. Ackerman & Co., London. 1850. anti slavery propaganda envelope depicting Britannia protecting a slave while across the water a negro is being whipped. This is the contemporary Ackerman reprint of the J. Valentine engraved design. Fine. 1850008163 £65

ACWORTH A.W. Buildings of Architectural or historical interest in the British West Indies. H.M.S.O. 1951. vi + 21pp + plates. Fine in original paper covers. Very scarce.ACWORTHA018145 £38

ADAMS F.U. Conquest of the Tropics. The story of the creative enterprises conducted by the United Fruit Co. Doubleday, Page & Co, New York. 1914. 368pp with many photo plates. 1st ed. Orig. cloth slightly worn and slightly shaken, contents fine. Detailed company history. Much on W.I. banana industry.ADAMSFU000152 £50

AMBURSLEY F. Crisis in the Caribbean. Heinemann. 1983. 276pp. Paperback. Clean. Political history of the period from 1978 - 1982.AMBURSLE016700 £8

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

ANDERSON T.D. Geopolitics of the Caribbean. Ministates in a wider world. Praeger. 1984. 175pp, fine in cloth. ANDERSON001472 £8

ANDRE E. A naturalist in the Guianas. Smith, Elder & Co., London. 1904. xiv + 310pp + plates and folding map. 1st ed., fine in orig. decorated red cloth, spine faded and front board with small stain. The author travelled from Trinidad up the Macareo River in Venezuela and then the Orinoco River to Ciudad Bolivar and beyond. Fine photo plates and including two fine chromo litho bird plates.ANDREE014209 £125

ANDREWS E.W. Journal of a Lady of Quality; Being the narrative of a journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the years 1774 to 1776. Yale Uni. Press. 1922. 341pp. 2nd ed., fine in worn orig. cloth. One of the most charming West Indian travel accounts in existence. Contains inimitable descriptions of the opulent planter life in St Kitts and Antigua immediately preceding the American revolution and gives one of the few accounts of St Eustatius. (Ragatz)ANDREWSE006065 £75

ANON The Horrors of Negro Slavery existing in our West Indian Islands, irrefragably demonstrated from official documents recently presented to the House of Commons. London. 1805. 36pp. 1st ed., occasional tone spots otherwise clean in modern paper wraps. An abolitionist tract arguing against the inadequate colonial laws regarding the murder of slaves by their owners. Rare.ANON015693 £160

ANON The History of the lives and bloody exploits of the most noted Pirates; their trials and executions. Including a correct account of the late piracies committed in the West Indies, and the expedition of Commodore Porter; also, those committed on the Brig Mexican, who were tried and executed at Boston, in 1835. Silas Andrus & Son, Hartford. 1855. 298pp + woodcut plates. Mostly clean in original worn and marked blindstamped cloth with new end paper. Originally compiled and published by Thomas Carey in 1825. The biographical sketches are largely based on Capt. Charles Johnson's works.ANON018007 £100

ANON In the West Indies. Stephens Ltd., Trinidad. 1910 (circa). 28 large pp. 1st ed., fine in orig. pictorial card covers. 10 x 8" Photo views of the islands with advertisment for Stephens Ltd. on back cover.ANON015245 £65

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.ANON017849 £90

ARCINIEGAS G. Biografia del Caribe. Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires. 1947. 546pp, orig. cloth, shaken. In Spanish.ARCINIEG001474 £15

ARMYTAGE F. The Free Port System in the British West Indies. A study in commercial policy, 1766 - 1822. Longmans Green & Co. 1953. 176pp + publisher's catalogue. 1st ed., clean in orig. maroon cloth. ARMYTAGE014245 £35

ASPINALL A. The Handbook of the British West Indies British Guiana and British Honduras 1929-30. West India Committee. 1929. 232pp + xl adverisments. 1st ed., ex library with usual labels and handstamps and minor soiling in original worn orange cloth with label adhering to spine. ASPINALL018132 £65

ASPINALL A.E. The pocket guide to the West Indies. Sifton, Praed & Co. 1927. 493pp + ads., plates and folding maps, lacking one plate of Kingston, orig. cloth, clean. ASPINALL009352 £10

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. ASPINALL014220 £38

AXLINE W.A. Caribbean Integration. The Politics of Regionalism. Frances Pinter Ltd., London. 1979. xx + 233pp. 1st ed., occasional pencil underlining otherwise clean in fine D/W. AXLINEWA016717 £16

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

BALINK A. My paradise in Hell. The story of the Caribbean. Vista Pub. Corp., New York. 1948. 331pp, fine in torn D/W. Historical guide to the Caribbean.BALINKA001481 £12

BANCROFT K. A handbook of the fungus diseases of West Indian plants. Privately published by author. 1910. 70pp + 6 plates. 1st ed., fine in card covers. Attractive pictorial bookplate depicting mushrooms of J. Nash-Wortham on f.e.p. BANCROFT008252 £25

BANNISTER J. Jack in the box. A TV commentator's diary of England v West Indies. Macdonald & Co. 1992. 166pp, 1st ed., fine in D/W. Story of the 1991 test match series.BANNISTE000183 £4

BARKER J.S. Summer spectacular. The West Indies v. England, 1963. Sportman's Book Club. 1965. 128pp + plates. Fine in D/W. Description of cricket test series in England.BARKERJS002890 £7

BAROVICK F. Calypso Combos. 12 calypsos featured and recorded by Harry Belafonte, Blind Blake and others. Hollis Music, Inc. 1957. 16pp. Fine in card covers. Sheet music.BAROVICK017557 £5

BARTY-KING H. Rum. Yesterday and today. Heineman. 1983. 264pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Fine history of rum production with chapters on many of the West Indian islands and much on slavery. Recommended.BARTYKIN017657 £18

BEAZLEY C.R. An English Garner. Voyages and Travels mainly during the 16th and 17th Centuries. E.P. Dutton & Co., New York. 1903. 2 vols. xxviii + 332pp, xxiv + 444pp. Clean in original worn blue cloth. Includes accounts of Hawkin's voyages to the West Indies and 'A relation of the retaking of the island of St Helena' [from the original edition of 1678]BEAZLEYC016940 £35

BECKFORD G. Caribbean Economy. Dependence and backwardness. Institute of Social & Economic Research, Jamaica. 1975. iii + 181pp. Paperback. Clean. BECKFORD017128 £6

BELL A. The spell of the Caribbean Islands. R.M. McBride & Co, New York. 1933. 361pp + plates. Fine in orig. cloth. Chapters on most of Windward and Leeward Islands.BELLA006017 £30

BELL W. The Democratic Revolution in the West Indies. Studies in Nationalism, Leadership, and the belief in progress. Schenkman Pub. Co., Cambridge, Mass. 1967. xxiii + 232pp + plates. 1st ed., clean in worn and torn D/W. BELLW016631 £8

BENJAMIN S.G.W. The Atlantic Islands as Resorts of Health and Pleasure. Harper Bros., New York. 1878. 274pp + 3pp publisher's catalogue. 1st ed., clean in slightly worn original pictorial cloth. 6.5 x 9" Chapters on the Bahamas and Bermuda plus the Channel Islands, Azores, Madeira, Teneriffe, Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island. Many fine woodcut engravings in text. A surprisingly scarce work.BENJAMIN017670 £175

BESSON M. The scourge of the Indies. Buccaneers, corsairs and filibusters. G. Routledge & Sons, London. 1929. 329 large pp + plates, some in colour. 1st ltd. ed. of 960 for the U.K., internally fine in worn original red cloth with wormholes in edges. 9 x 12" Fine, well illustrated work on pirates, mostly in the Caribbean. Covers the French corsairs as well which are often neglected in other pirate works.BESSONM017600 £85

BLANSHARD P. Democracy and Empire in the Caribbean. Macmillan, New York. 1947. 379pp. 1st ed., fine in orig. cloth. Descriptions of most of the islands with historical summary and political observations.BLANSHAR006098 £12

BOND J. Birds of the West Indies. A guide to the species of birds that inhabit the Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles and Bahama Islands. Collins. 1974. 256pp + colour plates. Revised 4th ed., clean in slightly worn D/W. BONDJ012004 £16

BONI A. In den Westindischen Archipel. De Belgische redemptoristen in het wereeldijk en kerke - lijk historisch kader van de antillen Brussels. 1944. 323pp + plates and folding map, P.B. BONIA001505 £10

BOYCOTT G. In the fast lane. West Indies tour 1981. A. Barker Ltd., London. 1981. 224 large pp, 1st ed., fine in slightly torn D/W. BOYCOTTG014944 £7

BRADY T. The fight against slavery. BBC. 1975. 144pp. 1st ed., clean in fine D/W. Profusely illustrated history of the movement to abolish slavery in the Caribbean.BRADYT015867 £6

BRATHWAITE E. The Arrivants. A New World Trilogy. Oxford Uni Press. 1990. 275pp. Paperback. Fine. Novel by Barbadian author.BRATHWAI016972 £5

BRAVEBOY-WAGNER J.A. The Caribbean in World Affairs. The Foreign Policies of the English Speaking States. Westview Press. 1989. x + 244pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Very fine. BRAVEBOY016618 £36

BRIDENBAUGH C & R. No peace beyond the line. The English in the Caribbean 1624-1690. Oxford Uni. Press, New York. 1972. 440pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Emphasis on social history. A highly regarded study.BRIDENBA016318 £38

BROMLEY A woman's wanderings in the Western World. A series of letters addressed to Sir Fitzroy Kelly, M.P. by his daughter. London. 1861. 299pp + plate and publisher's catalogue. 1st ed., repaired tear to title page and a few minor marks in page margins noted, finely rebound in old cloth retaining orig. label. The author describes her trip through North and South America, Mexico and the West Indies with chapters on most of the islands, with an attractive litho view of the Entrance to Havana.BROMLEY010533 £145

BROWN H. Asylum Island. Methuen & Co. 1950. 232pp 1st ed., clean in worn D/W. Novel set on mythical caribbean island.BROWNH013354 £6

BROWN S. Caribbean New Wave. Contemporary short stories. Heinemann. 1990. 181pp. Paperback. Clean. BROWNS017069 £4

BULLEN F.T. Back to sunny seas. Smith, Elder & Co. 1905. 287pp + 8 col. plates. 1st ed. in orig. pictorial boards with green library mark on cover and light tone spotting throughout as usually found with this work. Description of a tour through the islands with attractive reproductions of paintings by A.S. Forrest.BULLENFT006093 £30

BURN W.L. Emancipation and apprenticeship in the British West Indies. Jonathan Cape. 1937. 398pp. 1st ed., fine in orig. cloth. Authorative historical study.BURNWL006070 £36

BURNEY J. History of the buccaneers of America. George Allen and Unwin. 1949. 382pp. Reprint of 1816 ed. Fine in worn cloth. An important work on piracy written by a former captain in the Royal Navy.BURNEYJ005428 £45

BURNS A. History of the British West Indies. G. Allen & Unwin. 1954. 821pp. 1st ed. Ex library with usual h/s's and label on half title but otherwise very clean in fine D/W. Comprehensive history concentrating on period up to 1900. Highly recommended.BURNSA016668 £25

BUXTON C. Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet with selections from his correspondence. John Murray. 1848. 600pp + engraved frontispiece + ads. 1st ed., fine in original cloth. Biography of Wilberforce's successor who carried the fight for emancipation on to completion.BUXTONC001560 £125

CARIBBEAN Caribbean Breeze. Official Publication. Sixth Air Force. Dec 1944, Jan, June/July and August 1945 issues. U.S.A. 1944. 4 illustrated magazines each with different colour art cover. Mostly on Central America with many photo plates.CARIBBEA012656 £36

CARIBBEAN Report of the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission to the Governments of the United States and Great Britain for the years 1945. Washington. 1946. 39pp. 1st ed., clean in grey card covers. CARIBBEA010079 £6

CARIBBEAN Report of the British Caribbean Standing Closer Association Committee 1948-9. H.M.S.O. 1950. 107pp. 1st ed., clean in worn card covers. CARIBBEA010076 £8

CARIBBEAN Report of Civil Service Commission. Federation of East Caribbean territories. H.M.S.O. 1963. 2 vols. 177pp + folding tables. 1st ed., clean in orig. blue card covers. Ex libre with various h/s's. CARIBBEA012510 £6

CARIBBEAN Caribbean Quarterly. Vol. 10 No. 2. June 1964. Uni. of the W.I. 1964. 59pp. Some underlining of text otherwise clean in card covers. Incls. article on the negro slave, the banana industry and education.CARIBBEA012657 £6

CARIBBEAN DEVELOPMENT BANK Annual Report 1983. Barbados. 1984. 164pp. Clean in card covers. 7 x 10" Some good photo illustrations.CARIBBEA017004 £5

CARIBBEAN DEVELOPMENT BANK Annual Report 1988. Barbados. 1989. 177pp. Clean in card covers. 7 x 10" .CARIBBEA017005 £5

CARIBBEAN DEVELOPMENT BANK Annual Report 1989. Barbados. 1990. 170pp. Clean in card covers. 7 x 10" CARIBBEA017006 £5

CARIBBEAN DEVELOPMENT BANK Annual Report 1990. Barbados. 1991. 166pp. Clean in card covers. 7 x 10" CARIBBEA017007 £5

CARIBBEAN DEVELOPMENT BANK Annual Report 1991. Barbados. 1992. 164pp. Clean in card covers. 7 x 10" CARIBBEA017008 £5

CARIBBEAN DEVELOPMENT BANK Annual Report 1992. Barbados. 1993. 164pp. Clean in card covers. 7 x 10" CARIBBEA017009 £5

CARIBBEAN DEVELOPMENT BANK Annual Report 1995. Barbados. 1996. 167pp. Clean in card covers. 7 x 10" CARIBBEA017010 £5

CARTER T. Shattering Illusions. West Indians in British Politics. Lawrence & Wishart. 1986. 158pp. Paperback. Fine. Impact of West Indian community on British politics since the 1950's.CARTERT017043 £3

CHALKLEY T. Memoir of Thomas Chalkley. Chiefly extracted from a journal of his life, travels and Christian experiences, first published in America. W. & S. Graves, London. 1817. 68pp. Fine in modern ¼ leather binding. CHALKLEY001615 £60

CHAMBERS W. Chambers's information for the people. Description of the West Indies. Edinburgh. 1840 (circa). 16pp. Disbound. Brief notes on each of the islands.CHAMBERS014754 £12

CHANDOS D. Isles to Windward. Michael Joseph. 1955. 238pp. 1st ed., very fine in fine D/W. Description of the author's travels through the islands.CHANDOSD018147 £12

CHAPMAN E. Caribbean Album. Lands of Beauty and Romance. Arawak Press. 1960. 48 large pp. 1st ed., clean in worn blue cloth, slightly shaken. 10 x 12" Fine photo views of the islands, mostly of Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad.CHAPMANE017859 £24

CHEMIN DUPONTES P. Les Petites Antilles etude sur leur evolution economique. Paris. 1907. viii + 362pp + map. 1st ed., minor toning but mostly clean, loose in orig. paper covers. Economic history of the West Indies with much on the sugar trade and discussion of the then current economic crisis in the islands.CHEMINDU013208 £45

CHERNICK S.E. The Commonwealth Caribbean. The integration experience. A World Bank COuntry Economic report. John Hopkins Uni. Press. 1978. xv + 521pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. CHERNICK016335 £10

CHILD L.M. Right way the safe way. Proved by emancipation in the British West Indies and elsewhere. Negro Uni. Press. 1969. 108pp. Reprint of the 1862 ed. Fine. Describes improved conditions in the West Indies following emancipation.CHILDLM001636 £20

COCHIN A. The Results of Emancipation. Miami. 1969. xiv + 412pp. Facsimile reprint of 1863 ed. Some damp staining and curling in margins of pages at base throughout otherwise clean in black cloth. Much on the emancipation of the slaves in Guadeloupe and other French colonies in the Caribbean but also considers the effects in the English and Dutch islands.COCHINA015419 £18

COKE T. A history of the West Indies Containing the natural, civil, and ecclesiastical history of each island: with an account of the missions instituted in those islands, from the commencement of their civilisation but more especially of the missions which have been established in that archipelago by the Society late in connection with the Rev. John Wesley Mnemosyne Pub. Co. 1969. 3 vols. 459 + 463 + 543pp + folding plates. Facsimile reprint of 1st ed. Some light tone spotting. Important work on the establishment of the Methodist missions.COKET017722 £95

COLERIDGE H.N. Six months in the West Indies in 1825 John Murray, London. 1826. 328pp + engraved map. Second revised ed., very fine in orig. half calf with later marbled papers. Contains chapters on many of the islands. The work attracted a great deal of attention at the time. It was used by the Colonial Party in its contention that the negroe's state was not as bad as charged by the emancipationists.COLERIDG014365 £145

COLERIDGE H.N. Six months in the West Indies in 1825 Review in complete issue of 'The Quarterly Review.' John Murray, London. 1826. 28pp article in complete work. Contemporary review plus a review of 'Reflections upon the value of the British West Indian Colonies' 19pp.COLERIDG018510 £20

COMITAS L. Caribbeana 1900 - 1965. A topical bibliography. Uni. of Washington Press. 1968. 909pp. 1st ed. fine in orig. pink cloth. Cross referenced topical bibliography.COMITASL001647 £45

CONNEAU Cap. T. A slaver's log book. Or 20 years' residence in Africa. Robert Hale Ltd., London. 1976. 370pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Complete transcript of Conneau's autobiography previously written as Canot and edited by Brantz Meyer. Not directly connected with the West Indies.CONNEAUC007980 £12

COUPLAND R. Wilberforce. A narrative. Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 1923. 528pp. 1st ed., fine in orig. slightly faded cloth. Fine biography.COUPLAND014092 £38

COZIER A. The West Indies: fifty years of test cricket. Angus Robertson. 1978. 223pp + plates. 1st ed. fine in D/W. COZIERA013345 £15

CRAIG S. Contemporary Caribbean. A Sociological Reader. Published by the author, Trinidad. 1981. 2 vols. xxiv + 404pp + x + 463pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Clean. CRAIGS016633 £18

CRASSWELLER R.D. The Caribbean community. Changing societies and U.S. policy. Pall Mall Press, London. 1972. 470pp. 1st ed., clean in worn orig. cloth. Geopolitical study.CRASSWEL016357 £5

CROUSE N.M. The French struggle for the West Indies 1665 - 1713. Octagon Books, New York. 1966. 324pp + plates. Reprint of 1943 1st ed., very fine in original green cloth. CROUSENM017723 £46

CUMPER G. The social structure of the British Caribbean. Parts 1-4 complete. Kraus Reprint. 1978. 41 + 47 + 43 + 90pp. Fine in orig. blue cloth. Important sociological study.CUMPERG001669 £18

CURTIN P.D. The Atlantic Slave Trade. A census. Uni. of Wisconsin Press. 1970. xix + 338pp. Clean in fine D/W. Academic study of the Atlantic slave trade.CURTINPD015885 £18

CUTTERIDGE J.O. Geography of the West Indies and adjacent islands. Thomas Nelson & Sons, Ltd. 1961. 325pp + col. maps and 16 plates. Revised ed., fine in worn cloth. School text book with good illusts.CUTTERID002888 £10

DABYDEEN D. Slave Song. Dangaroo Press. 1989. 72pp. Paperback. Fine. Poetry by the Guyanese author. DABYDEEN016711 £10

DALRYMPLE H. 50 Great West Indian Test Cricketers. Hansib. 1983. xxi + 281pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Signed presentation copy from the author. Fine. DALRYMPL016719 £10

DAVIES J.G. The principles of cane sugar manufacture. (Together with a description of the machinery) Norman Rodger, London. 1938. 144pp + plates and ads. 1st ed., fine in orig. cloth. Illustrated guide with interesting adverts for sugar machinery.DAVIESJG012015 £45

DAVIES K.G. Calendar of State Papers Colonial Series. America and West Indies. preserved in the Public Record Office Vol. XLV. 1739. H.M.S.O. 1994. xvii + 318pp. Small h/s of 'Northumberland Record Office on f.e.p. otherwise fine in D/W. DAVIESKG018103 £36

DAVIS W.M. The Lesser Antilles. American Geographical Soc. 1926. 207pp + plates. 1st ed. Fine in orig. cloth. Good geological study.DAVISWM006053 £18

DEMAS W.G. The economics of development in small countries with special reference to the Caribbean. McGill Uni. Press, Montreal. 1966. 150pp. 2nd ed. clean in card covers. DEMASWG010074 £10

DEMAS W.G. Experiences in regional integration and cooperation: the case of the Caribbean community and common market (CARICOM). Caribbean Development Bank. 1984. 17 large pp. Clean in card covers + paper on Financial Policies, 11pp. DEMASWG016332 £6

DICKSON R. The directory of Caribbean Personalities in Britain and North America. The Gleaner Co., Jamaica. 1985. 333pp. 1st ed., fine in slightly stained D/W. DICKSONR017063 £16

DOOKHAN I. A Pre-Emancipation History of the West Indies. Collins. 1972. 160pp. 2nd Impression. Paperback. Clean. DOOKHANI017861 £9

DOOKHAN I. A Post-Emancipation History of the West Indies. Collins. 1975. 191pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Clean. DOOKHANI017862 £9

DREW S. The Life of the Rev. Thomas Coke, LL.D. including in detail his various travels and extraordinary missionary exertions, in England, Ireland, America, and the West Indies, with an account of his death, on the 3d of May, 1814, while on a missionary voyage to the island of Ceylon, in the East Indies. Intersperced with numerous reflections; and concluding with an abstract of his writings and character. London. 1817. xix + 389pp + engraved frontispiece portrait. 1st ed., clean in orig. worn half calf binding, particularly along hinges but contents still tight and firm. Coke visited many islands in the West Indies, including Antigua, Dominica, St Christopher, Nevis, St Vincent and Tortola. Sabin 20932DREWS015421 £140

DUNBAR R.N. Beauties of Tropical Scenery; Lyrical sketches and love songs. With notes, historical and illustrative. Robert Hardwicke, London. 1863. x + 129 [2] pp + engraved frontispiece. 1st ed. Minor tone spotting otherwise fine in original decorated green cloth. Presentation copy to the author's wife with inscription on half title. Poems set in the Caribbean including 'A prospect of the Antilles,' and 'Lyrical sketches to a beautiful Creole.'DUNBARRN016752 £120

DUNN R.S. Sugar and slaves. The rise of the planter class in the English West Indies, 1624 - 1713. Uni. of N. Carolina Press. 1973. 359pp. Fine in D/W. Fine historical study.DUNNRS001704 £25

DYDE B. The empty sleeve. The story of the West India Regiments of the British Army. Hansib. 1997. 283pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in card covers. Recommended.DYDEB018262 £12

EAGAR P. West Indian Summer. The Test series of 1988. Hodder & Stoughton. 1988. 112 large pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Description of the cricket matches played in England well illustrated.EAGARP004145 £8

EDWARDS B. Thoughts on the late Proceedings of Government, respecting the Trade of the West India Islands with the United States of North America. London, Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand. 1784. vi + 55pp. 1st ed., lacking end papers, very clean in later red cloth. On Colonial trade and the blockade of the U.S.A. Edward's first published work. Rare.EDWARDSB018298 £240

EDWARDS B. The history civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies. To which is added, an historical survey of the French Colony in the island of St Domingo. Abridged from the history written by Bryan Edwards. London. 1799. xvi + 373pp + 7pp publisher's catalogue + folded map. 8vo. A very good clean copy in contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards, joints and extremities a little worn. EDWARDSB009796 £475

EDWARDS B. The history civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies. John Stockdale, London. 1801. 3 vols. xxiv + 576pp + viii + 617pp + xxxii + 477pp + 22 folding plates and maps. Third ed. with additions. Minor tone spotting to plates and maps otherwise very clean in modern grey sugar papers with paper labels. A handsome set. This edition includes a Historical Survey of St Domingo plus 'A tour through the Windward Islands' by Sir William Young, 'Historical Account of the Constitution of Jamaica, Hortus Eastensis or a catalogue of exotic plants in the garden of Hinton East in Jamaica, Postscript to the survey of St Domingo and 'History of the war in the West Indies.' This edition includes individual island maps and fine engraved views.EDWARDSB017996 £950

ELLFFRYTH D Daniel Ellffryth's Guide to the Caribbean 1631. Edited by Stanley Pargellis and Ruth Lapham Butler. Off print from the William and Mary Quarterly 3rd Series, Volume 1. Newberry Library, Chicago. 1945. 44pp + folding map. Fine in brown card covers. A personal account of an early Caribbean adventurer.ELLFFRYT017834 £20

ELWES R. W.S.W. A voyage in that direction to the West Indies. Kerby & Son, London. 1866. v + 135pp + 14 litho plates. 1st ed., some minor tone spotting, mostly affecting plates otherwise clean in original rather discoloured original cloth. Inscribed by the author in 1865 on front end paper. Most attractive tinted plates of Panama, St Thomas, Jamaica, St Christopher, Grenada and Trinidad. The author recounts his experiences of travel through the islands. A rare work.ELWESR017998 £650

ERISMAN H.M. The Caribbean Challenge. U.S. Policy in a volatile region. Westview Press. 1984. xiii + 208pp. Paperback. Clean. ERISMANH017198 £4

ESKELUND K. Revolt in the tropics. Travels in the Caribbean. Alvin Redman. 1963. 176pp + plates. 1st ed. Very fine in fine D/W. Travels through the islands during the Cuban crisis with much interesting social comment.ESKELUND016674 £12

ESQUEMELING J. The buccaneers of America. A true account of the most remarkable assaults committed of late years upon the coast of the West Indies by the buccaneers of Jamaica and Tortuga, both English and French. Wherein are contained more especially the unparalleled exploits of Sir Henry Morgan, our English Jamaican hero, who sacked Porto Bello, burnt Panama, etc. G. Routledge. n.d. xix + 480pp. 1920's reprint of the 1684 ed., fine in D/W. The most important work on the pirates, written by a Dutchman who had probably sailed with Morgan.ESQUEMEL014101 £45

EVES C.W. The West Indies. Published under the auspices of the Royal Colonial Institute. Sampson, Lowe. 1897. xxxi + 322pp + 7 col. folding maps and many photo plates, some folding. 4th ed. Author's dedication on title page. Some tone spotting throughout. Bound in handsome modern half calf with raised bands and marbled boards. A scarcer guidebook with fine photo illustrations.EVESCW016670 £145

FERGUSON J. Traveller's Literary Companion to the Caribbean with chapters on Cuba and Puerto Rico by Jason Wilson. In Print. 1997. xv + 408pp. Paperback. Fine. Arranged by islands giving details of literary works on each with extracts.FERGUSON017042 £12

FERMOR P.L. The traveller's tree. A journey through the Caribbean islands John Murray. 1951. 403pp + plates. Reprint, clean in original worn green cloth. One of the best written travel books on the Caribbean.FERMORPL017717 £18

FERMOR P.L. The violins of Saint-Jacques. A tale of the Antilles. John Murray, London. 1958. 139pp. Fine in worn cloth. Story set on a small French island near Guadeloupe.FERMORPL001722 £7

FIGUEROA J. West Indies in England. The Great Post War Tours. Kingswood Press. 1991. vi + 225pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. History of cricket matches.FIGUEROA017125 £8

FIGUEROA J.J. Society, schools and progress in the West Indies. Pergamon Press. 1971. 208pp. Paperback. Ex library with some h/s's. FIGUEROA016428 £3

FILLINGHAM P. Pilot's guide to the Lesser Antilles. McGraw Hill Book Co., U.S.A. 1979. 377pp, 1st ed., fine in pictorial boards. Well illust. guide to the islands designed for traveller with own light aircraft with chapter on airports.FILLINGH002877 £20

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

FOLLETT H. Islands on guard. Chas. Scribner's Sons, New York. 1943. 170 large pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Guide to the islands with fine photo illusts. giving details of the U.S. bases and effects of the war. Recommended.FOLLETTH008955 £40

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

FOSTER H.L. Combing the Caribbees. John Lane, the Bodley Head Ltd., London. 1929. ix + 302pp + photo plates. 1st ed., clean in slightly shaken and worn orig. yellow cloth binding with small tear at head of spine. Author's travels through Guadeloupe, Martinique, Haiti and the Dominican Republic with many good photo views.FOSTERHL015280 £20

FOX A.B. Freedom and welfare in the Caribbean. A Colonial dilemma. Harcourt, Brace & Co. 1949. 272pp. 1st ed., fine in worn D/W. Discussion of social, economic and political problems facing the Caribbean islands.FOXAB006059 £16

FRANCK H.A. Tramping through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. Being the random notes of an incurable vagabond. The Century Co., New York. 1916. 378pp + plates and folding map. 1st ed. Foxing affecting title page otherwise fine in D/W. FRANCKHA002876 £30

FREEMAN L.R. Afloat and aflight in the Caribbean. Dodd, Mead & Co. 1932. 456pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in orig. cloth. Interesting travel book.FREEMANL006038 £20

FROUDE J.A. English Seamen in the sixteenth century. Lectures delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4. Longmans, Green & Co., London. 1901. 309pp. Very fine in very fine old decorated half calf binding. Chapters on Drake and Hawkins, the expedition to the West Indies and the Spanish Armada.FROUDEJA016534 £60

FRYER P. Black people in the British Empire. An introduction. Pluto Press. 1988. xv + 174pp. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. FRYERP016398 £12

FURNESS F.N. Social and cultural pluralism in the Caribbean. New York Academy of Sciences. 1960. 155pp. Reprint from journal, clean in card covers. Chapters on the subject by various authors.FURNESSF008014 £7

GARDINER Cap. An account of the expedition to the West Indies, against Martinico, with the reduction of Guadelupe, and other the Leeward Islands; subject to the French King, 1759. By Captain Gardiner of the King's Royal Musqueteers, late Captain of Marines on board His Majesty's ship Rippon, employed on this expedition. John Baskerville, Birmingham. 1762. 91pp + 4 engraved plates + 91pp French translation. 3rd ed. (the first Baskerville ed.) 4to. Light damp staining to end pages otherwise clean in fine modern half calf binding with marbled boards. Gardiner commanded a detachment of Marines at St Pierre, Martinique, and again at the siege of Guadeloupe, publishing this account on his return. The British joint task force was repulsed at Martinique in January, 1759, but took Guadeloupe after a protracted campaign lasting from February to April of that year. A rare work. Sabin 26628. 'A beautiful specimen of typography.GARDINER018444 £850

GARRETT M.B. The French Colonial Question 1789-1791 Dealings of the Constituent Assembly with problems arising from the revolution in the West Indies. Negro Uni Press. 1970. 167pp, reprint of 1916 ed., fine in cloth. Historical study.GARRETTM015249 £20

GARRETTSON F.P. A snap-shot in the West Indies. A thirty-five day trip. Herald Pub. Co., Newport R.I. 1902. 182pp + plates. 1st ed., some page edges roughly cut open with some loss of margin otherwise clean in fine orig. maroon cloth. Description of the author's tour through the islands with some interesting photo illustrations. Very scarce.GARRETTS014195 £75

GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT The Caribbean Geographer. Issue 2. Geography Department of the Uni. of the W.I. 1972. 93pp. Clean in card covers. GEOGRAPH010067 £8

GIBBON D. The Caribbean. A picture book to remember her by. Crescent. 1978. 1st ed., clean in torn D/W. Book of colour photo plates of the islands.GIBBOND010222 £8

GILES R. The West Indian experience in British Schools. Multi-racial education and social disadvantage in London. Heinemann. 1977. 170pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Fine. GILESR017139 £6

GILLSATER S. From island to island. Oases of the animal world in the Western hemisphere. Allen & Unwin. 1968. 126pp + col. plates. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Includes chapters on San Blas islands, Guadeloupe and Panama. Description of tour by professional photographer of animals and birds.GILLSATE003129 £5

GILMORE J. Glimpses of our Past. A social history of the Caribbean in postcards. Ian Randle Publishers, Jamaica. 1995. 145 large pp. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. 11 x 8.5" Illustrations of 200 old postcards from 1900 - 1950 with descriptive text.GILMOREJ018480 £18

GORDON H.C. West Indian Scenes. Robert Hale Ltd. 1942. 252pp + plates. 1st ed., clean in orig. green cloth. History and stories of the West Indies with some unusual photo illustrations. Surprisingly scarce work.GORDONHC010640 £16

GOVERNMENT Abridgment of the Minutes of the Evidence, taken before a Committee of the Whole House, to whom it was referred to consider of the Slave Trade, 1789. London. 1789. Bound with Part II for 1790. 82pp + 246pp. 1st ed., fine in orig. half calf, rebacked and with repairs to head and tail of spine but retaining orig. red label. Detailed eye-witness statements mostly from persons connected with the West Indies including many plantation owners, former governor of Jamaica, a doctor from Antigua, etc. 'A work published for general information and not for propaganda purposes by either party to the abolition controversy.' (Ragatz) Nos. 3 and 4 were published later in 1790 and 1791 giving a continuation of the evidence but are not present.GOVERNME015179 £475

GOVERNMENT Gaols, West Indies. Copies of correspondence relative to the state of the Gaols in the West Indies and the British Colonies in South America; and also of any instructions which have been sent out from the Colonial Office relative to such prisons. H.M.S.O. 1831. 100 large pp. Fine in paper covers. Detailed report on all prisons.GOVERNME010467 £75

GOVERNMENT Statements, calculations, and explanations submitted to the Board of Trade, relating to the commercial, financial, and political state of the British West India Colonies, since the 19th of May 1830. H.M.S.O. 1831. 105 large pp. Last 3pp torn with loss to margin otherwise clean in paper covers. GOVERNME010466 £45

GOVERNMENT An Act to allow the importation of Lumber, and of fish and provisions, duty free, into the islands of Barbadoes, Saint Vincent, and Saint Lucia; and to indemnify the Governors and others of those islands for having permitted the importation of those articles duty free. London. 1832. 2pp. Odd tone spot. GOVERNME016961 £8

GOVERNMENT Papers in explanation of the measures adopted by H.M. Government for the melioration of the condition of the slave population in H.M. Possessions in the West Indies, and on the continent of South America. H.M.S.O. 1832. 9 large pp. Clean. GOVERNME010469 £25

GOVERNMENT Slavery abolition proceedings. Copy of despatch forwarded to the Governors of the West India Colonies, respecting fugitive slaves. H.M.S.O. 1835. 3 large pp. Clean. Measures to stop slaves from other European countries escaping to the British colonies.GOVERNME010468 £8

GOVERNMENT Emigration. West Indies and Mauritius. Correspondence relative to Emigration of Labourers to the West Indies and the Mauritius, from the West Coast of Africa, the East Indies, and China. H.M.S.O. 1844. 291 large pp. Clean in orig. blue paper covers. GOVERNME010470 £75

GOVERNMENT West India colonies and Mauritius. Copies or extracts of any despatches received by the last two mails relating to the distress prevailing in the West India colonies and the Mauritius. ..General condition and measures in progress for the promotion of immigration. H.M.S.O. 1848. 274 large pp. Clean in orig. blue paper covers. GOVERNME010473 £60

GOVERNMENT An Act to amend an Act for guaranteeing the interest on such loans, not exceeding Five hundred thousand pounds, as may be raised by the British Colonies on the Continent of South America, in the West Indies, and the Mauritius, for certain purposes. London. 1852. 2pp. Fine. GOVERNME016962 £6

GOVERNMENT Substance of the debate in the House of Commons, on the 15th May 1823, on a motion for the mitigation and gradual abolition of slavery throughout the British Dominions. With a preface and appendixes, containing facts and reasonings illustrative of colonial bondage. Dawsons of Pall Mall. 1968. xxxix + 248pp. Facsimile reprint of 1823 ed. Fine in black cloth. GOVERNME009800 £45

GOVERNMENT Substance of the debates on a resolution for abolishing the slave trade, which was moved in the House of Commons on the 10th June, 1806 and in the House of Lords on the 24th June, 1806. With an appendix containing notes and illustrations. Dawsons of Pall Mall. 1968. xi + 216pp + folding plate. Facsimile reprint of 1806 ed. Fine in black cloth. Includes famous print of cross section of a slave ship.GOVERNME009799 £45

GRAVES C. Fourteen islands in the sun. London. 1965. 220pp. 1st ed., clean in slightly tatty D/W. Guide book with chapters on each island.GRAVESC011589 £4

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

GRUGEL J. Politics and development in the Caribbean Basin. Central America and the Caribbean in the New World Order. Macmillan. 1995. 270pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Very fine. GRUGELJ010221 £6

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

HAKLUYT R. The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XV Parts 1 - 9. America Part IV. West Indies. Voyages of circumnavigation. Edinburgh. 1890. 9 vols. 447pp. Mostly clean in orig. vellum paper covers. Slight damp staining and soiling to covers. A special ltd. ed. and an attractive set all on the West Indies.HAKLUYTR013095 £75

HALLE L.J. Transcaribbean. A travel book of Guatemala, El Salvador, British Honduras. Longmans, Green & Co., New York. 1936. 311pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in orig. cloth. HALLELJ003221 £16

HANINGTON F. The Lady Boats. The Life and Times of Canada's West Indies Merchant Fleet. Canadian Marine Transportation Centre. 1980. 175 large pp. 1st ed., clean in worn D/W. 8 x 11" Well illustrated history.HANINGTO017860 £20

HANNAU H.W. The West Indian islands. Argos Inc., Miami. 1975 (circa). 133pp. Clean in pictorial boards. Contains 48pp of colour photo plates.HANNAUHW016684 £6

HARDING DAVIS R. Three Gringos in Venezuela and Central America. Harper Bros., New York. 1903. 282pp. 2nd ed., fine in orig. worn cloth. Illustrated account of a journey through Venezuela, Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras and Br. Honduras. Very readable.HARDINGD010878 £30

HARRIS B. West Indies cricket challenge 1957. Stanley Paul. 1957. 182pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Description of the test series in England.HARRISB003224 £12

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

HART F.R. Admirals of the Caribbean. Houghton, Mifflin Co., Boston. 1922. 203pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in orig. pictorial cloth with tender corner. Includes chapters on Drake, Morgan, Vernon, De Pointis, Du Casse and Rodney.HARTFR010822 £40

HART R. From Occupation to Independence. A short history of the peoples of the English speaking Caribbean region. Pluto Press. 1998. x + 189pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Inscribed and signed by author on title page. Fine. HARTR017071 £16

HENDERSON J. The West Indies painted by A.S. Forrest, described by John Henderson. A. & C. Black. 1905. 272pp + 74 col. plates + ads. 1st ed., some tone spotting, frontispiece and guard with bad corner crease but only in margin. Slightly shaken binding, spine slightly sunned. Sought after work with fine colour plates.HENDERSO009664 £60

HENRY P. The Newer Caribbean. Decolonization, democracy, and development. Institute for the study of Human Issues, Philadelphia. 1983. xx + 348pp. 1st ed. Large paperback. Fine. HENRYP017003 £6

HEPBURN A. Complete guide to the Caribbean and the Bahamas. American Travel Series. 1958. 164pp. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. HEPBURNA017048 £3

HEYRICK E. Ladies' Society, for the relief of Negro Slaves. Card explanatory of the contents of the Society's Work Bags. Birmingham (?). 1825 (circa). 2pp handout also 3 other contemporary anti slavery papers. Fine. 8 x 10.5" One quotes extracts from the Jamaica Gazette for 1824, another quotes from 'Colonel Arthur's Letter' giving details of the torture of a female slave, 'Kitty' and the other is a short poem about a negro woman. I believe these to have been produced by the Birmingham Ladies Society but cannot be sure.HEYRICKE016957 £75

HICKMAN JOHNSON Rev. G.E. Report of visits to the West Indian Districts. November 1934 to February 1935. October 1935 to February 1936. Methodist Missionary Society. 1936. 40pp + maps. Mostly clean in worn green card covers. HICKMANJ011620 £8

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 populations of the British Caribbean 1807-1834. John Hopkins Uni. Press. 1984. xxxiii + 781pp. Clean in orig. blue cloth. Academic study.HIGMANBW015863 £85

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

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

HMSO Extracts from Papers, printed by order of the House of Commons, 1839, relative to the West Indies. Arranged under the following Heads:- 1. Progress of Industry and General Condition of Society since 1st August, 1838. 2. State of the Law as it now stands. 3. New Laws proposed to meet the new relations of society. 4. Administration of Justice. 5. Prison regulations, &c. 6. Laws relating to Immigration and Deportation from one Colony to another. 7. Proceedings of the Legal Legislatures. H.M.S.O. 1840. xxiii + 678pp. 1st ed., clean in orig. worn blind stamped cloth. Front hinge repaired. HMSO016543 £275

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" Much on the West Indies, particularly the islands of Barbados, Jamaica, Nevis and St Kitts with details of invasions by the French.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 1734-5 to December 1741 preserved in the Public Record Office. London. 1930. iv + 447pp. 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 and St Kitts Nevis.HMSO016595 £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

HOUGH S.J. & P.R.O. The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection at Hamilton College. A catalogue of books, manuscripts, prints, maps and drawings, 1521 - 1860. Uni. of Florida. 1994. xi + 414 large pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. 9 x 12" Useful bibliographical reference work.HOUGHSJ&013383 £80

HOUSE OF COMMONS Fifth report from the Foreign Affairs Committee Session 1981-82. Caribbean and Central America. H.M.S.O. 1982. cviii + 418pp. Fine in blue card covers. HOUSEOFC016739 £8

HOVEY S. Letters from the West Indies; relating especially 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

HOYLES M. The axe laid to the root. The story of Robert Wedderburn. Hansib. 2004. 119pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Mint condition. Robert Wedderburn was a campaigner against slavery in Jamaica. Born in 1762 in Jamaica he moved to England in 1778 and became a political reformer.HOYLESM016416 £8

HUMPHREYS R.A. Latin American History. A guide to the literature in English. Oxford Uni. Press. 1966. 197pp. Fine in slightly torn D/W. Very useful bibliography divided by subjects, different periods of history and countries.HUMPHREY005452 £18

HUNTE G. The West Indian Islands. B.T. Batsford Ltd. 1973. 246pp + plates. Fine in D/W. Good description of the islands with much on historical background and economy plus individual sketches of each island.HUNTEG011558 £6

IRVIN G. Towards an alternative for Central America and the Caribbean. George Allen & Unwin. 1985. xiv +273pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Clean. IRVING017127 £6

JAGAN C. The Caribbean Revolution. Orbis Press Agency, Prague. 1979. 218pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Covers worn. JAGANC016634 £20

JAMAICA AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY The Farmer's Food Manual. A recipe book for the West Indies. Uni Press, Glasgow. 1957. 386pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Illustrated recipe book and nutritional guide featuring many local dishes.JAMAICAA007300 £18

JAMES C.L.R. The future in the present. Selected writings. Allison & Busby. 1977. 271pp. Paperback. Cover slightly creased on one corner otherwise fine. JAMESCLR016358 £30

JAMES C.L.R. Notes on Dialectics. Hegel, Marx, Lenin. Allison & Bushby. 1980. 231pp. Paperback. Fine. First published in 1948.JAMESCLR016715 £12

JAMES C.L.R. Spheres of Existence. Selected writings. Allison & Busby. 1980. 266pp. Paperback. Fine. JAMESCLR016990 £15

JAMES C.L.R. Nkrumah and the Ghana revolution. Allison & Busby. 1982. 224pp. Paperback. Fine. JAMESCLR016988 £10

JAMES C.L.R. At the Rendezvous of Victory. Selected writings. Allison & Bushby. 1984. xi + 303pp. Paperback. Fine. JAMESCLR016716 £12

JAMES C.L.R. C.L.R. James's 80th birthday lectures. Race Today Publications. 1984. 72pp. Paperback. Very fine. JAMESCLR016354 £7

JAMES C.L.R. C.L.R. James - Man of the People. An exhibition of his life and work. Catalogue. London. 1986. 13 large pp + ads. Fine in card covers. JAMESCLR016650 £8

JOHNSTON Sir H.H. The negro in the New World. Methuen & Co., London. 1910. xxix + 499pp + folding map. 1st ed. Clean in worn and marked original brown cloth, rebacked. Bumped at top corner with light crease to page margins. 7.5 x 10" 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.JOHNSTON016825 £125

JONES C.L. The Caribbean since 1900. Prentice-Hall, Inc., New York. 1936. 511pp. 1st ed., ex libre still very good in orig. cloth. Political history of the region with chapters devoted to Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic and Latin American countries.JONESCL010509 £20

JONES C.L. Caribbean backgrounds and prospects. Kennikat Press, New York. 1971. 354pp. Reprint of 1931 ed., fine in orig. cloth. Important study of economic history of the Caribbean islands with chapters on sugar, coffee and fruit, etc., plus political future.JONESCL005490 £20

KADT E. De Patterns of foreign influence in the Caribbean. Oxford Uni. Press. 1972. viii + 188pp + folding map. 1st ed., fine in slightly torn D/W. KADTEDE017131 £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

KING B. West Indian Literature. Macmillan. 1995. viii + 248pp. 2nd revised ed. Paperback. Inscription on half title otherwise clean. Critical history of West Indian literature from its origins to the present.KINGB017097 £8

KLIEN H.S. African slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean. Oxford Uni. Press. 1986. 311pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. The author traces the evolution of slavery and then depicts the life and culture of slaves with emphasis on the sugar plantation economy.KLIENHS005506 £25

KNIGHT F.W. The Caribbean. The genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism. Oxford Uni. Press. 1990. xvi + 389pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Clean. KNIGHTFW017144 £4

KONING H. Columbus. His Enterprise. Latin American Bureau. 1991. 137pp. Paperback. Mint condition. KONINGH016424 £3

LA ROSE J. Eyelets of Truth within me. New Beacon Books. 1992. 47pp. Paperback. Fine. Poetry.LAROSEJ016969 £8

LABAT R.P. Nouveau Voyage aux Isles de L'Amerique (Voyage au Pays des Flibustiers et des Caraibes). Collection Ailleurs, Paris. 1931. xvi + 194pp. Very fine in half calf decorated binding by Henry Sotheran Ltd of Piccadilly with orig. card covers bound in at rear. Early history of the Caribbean. Much on Martinique and Guadeloupe.LABATRP015320 £75

LABAT R.P. Voyages aux Isles de L'Amerique (Antilles) 1693-1705. Editions Duchartre, Paris. 1931. 2 vols., 355 + 478pp + plates. Fine in card covers. Early description of the New World with many fine plates.LABATRP011299 £60

LAMONT N. Problems of the Antilles. A collection of speeches and writings on West Indian questions. London. 1912. xii + 178pp. 1st ed., newspaper article glued onto rear e.p. otherwise fine condition in orig. blue cloth. Very scarce.LAMONTN014115 £42

LANGLEY A.R. British West Indian Interlude. National Geographic Magazine Vol. LXXIX. 1941 Jan. 46pp article in complete magazine with many fine colour photo plates (one illustration cut out) also article by Folliard, 'Martinique, Caribbean Question Mark. 9pp. LANGLEYA011625 £7

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

LESTER H.L. High lights in the West Indies and Mexico. Privately printed. 1937. 61pp + 11 photo plates. 1st ed. printed on hand made paper, lacking f.e.p. otherwise fine in orig. cloth. The author describes a cruise from England visiting Madeira, Barbados, Curacao, Panama, Mexico, Miami, Bermuda and the Azores. Very scarce.LESTERHL013404 £75

LEWIS G.K. The growth of the modern West Indies. Modern reader paperbacks, New York. 1969. 506pp. Paperback. Fine. Political history from 1930 with much on Federation.LEWISGK005529 £12

LEWIS G.K. Main Currents in Caribbean Thought. The historical evolution of Caribbean Society in its ideological aspects, 1492-1900. Heineman Educational Books. 1983. x + 375pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Clean. LEWISGK016625 £6

LEWIS V.A. Size self-determination and international relations: the Caribbean. Institute of Social and Economic Research. 1976. 358pp. Paperback. Fine. LEWISVA017083 £8

LOWENTHAL D. West Indian Societies. Oxford Uni. Press. 1972. xvii + 385pp. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. LOWENTHA017002 £3

LOWENTHAL D. Consequences of class and color. West Indian Perspectives. Anchor Books. 1973. xiii + 334pp. Paperback. Contents loose. LOWENTHA017138 £1

LOWENTHAL D. The Aftermath of Sovereignty. West Indian Perspectives. Anchor Books. 1973. xvii + 422pp. Paperback. Clean. LOWENTHA017136 £3

LOWENTHAL D. Work and Family Life. West Indian Perspectives. Anchor Books. 1973. xvii + 422pp. Paperback. Clean. LOWENTHA017137 £3

LUCAS C.P. A historical geography of the British Colonies. Vol. II, West Indies. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1890. 343pp + 12 col. maps. 1st ed., fine in original green cloth. Although part of a series of works on the colonies this volume is complete in itself. An authorative and well researched work. Recommended.LUCASCP016893 £45

LUCAS C.P. A historical geography of the British Colonies. Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 1900-7. 8 vols. Uniformly bound in half calf by Hatchards of Picadilly with raised bands and gilt decoration. An important work with volumes on the West Indies, Australia, Australasia, Canada (2), West Africa, South & East Africa, Mediterranean and the origin and growth. A handsome set.LUCASCP012222 £500

LUKE Sir H. The West Indies since the Moyne Report. Geographical Magazine Vol XXII, no. 5. 1949. 12pp article in complete magazine. Good black and white and colour photo illustrations of Barbados, Jamaica and some of the other islands.LUKESIRH016913 £5

MACKIE J.M. From Cape Cod to Dixie and the Tropics. New York. 1864. 422pp. 1st ed., lightly browned throughout otherwise clean in worn original cloth. Includes chapters on the Bahamas, Bermuda and Cuba.MACKIEJM018162 £60

MACMILLAN W.M. Warning from the West Indies. A tract for Africa and the Empire. Books for libraries Press, New York. 1971. 213pp + folding map. Reprint of 1936 ed., fine in orig. cloth. Study of social life and peasant economy in the islands.MACMILLA005563 £16

MADARIAGA S de Christopher Columbus. Being the life of the very magnificent Lord Don Cristobal Colon. Hodder & Stoughton. 1939. 524pp + folding plates. 1st ed., clean in shaken and worn and marked orig. cloth. Biography by the noted Spanish historian.MADARIAG006036 £10

MANLEY M. A history of West Indies Cricket. Guild Publishing, London. 1988. xv + 576pp. Fine in fine D/W. Covers the period from 1906 to 1987.MANLEYM016680 £8

MARKHAM E.A. Hinterland. Caribbean poetry from the West Indies and Britain. Bloodaxe Books. 1989. 335pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Fine. MARKHAME017122 £4

MARRIAT Cap. The Pirate and the three cutters. Paris. 1836. 134 + 52pp. 1st French ed., minor tone spotting, clean in orig., slightly worn decorated half leather. A popular novel at the time describing adventures of two brothers, one captured by pirates in the Caribbean. Includes short description of the Turks & Caicos Is. where the pirates were based. Bound with a short story, 'The Three Cutters.'MARRIATC007190 £80

MARSHALL O. The Caribbean at War. British West Indians in World War II. North Kensington Archive. 1992. 30pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. Well illustrated articles on the effects of the war on the Caribbean.MARSHALL014756 £18

MARTIN P.E. Black Press, Britons and Immigrants. Vintage Communications, Kingston, Jamaica. 1998. vi + 266pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Fine. Development of West Indian newspapers in Briton following the War.MARTINPE017129 £16

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

MATHIESON W.L. British slavery and its abolition 1823-1838. Longmans, Green & Co. 1926. 318pp. 1st ed. Tone spotting on page edges as usual otherwise very fine in slightly torn D/W. Important academic study.MATHIESO010506 £35

MAYER B. Captain Canot; or, twenty years of an African Slaver. Being an account of his career and adventures on the coast, in the interior, on shipboard, and in the West Indies. D. Appleton & Co, New York. 1854. xvii + 448pp + engraved plates and publisher's ads. 1st ed., fine in orig. cloth. Very scarce first edition.MAYERB012372 £325

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

MCNISH J.C. The New West Indies Annual Survey and Trade Directory. London. 1950. 152 large pp. 1st ed., ex reference library with label on inside cover and a few handstamps otherwise clean in blue cloth. Includes lists of businesses in the islands and photos of the various groups of employees in Jamaican government departments plus many adverts. Very scarce.MCNISHJC017645 £65

MEANS P.A. The Spanish Main. Focus of Envy 1492-1700. Gordian Press, New York. 1965. xi + 278pp. Reprint of 1931 ed., clean in red cloth. MEANSPA017857 £16

METHODIST CHURCH For Ever Beginning. Two Hundred Years of Methodism in the Western Area. Literature Department of the Methodist Church (Jamaica District). 1960. vi + 96pp. 1st ed., clean in original blue cloth. Well illustrated history with much on Jamaica and the Turks & Caicos Islands.METHODIS019114 £45

MILLAS J.C. Hurricanes of the Caribbean and adjacent regions, 1492-1800. Academy of the Arts & Sciences, Miami. 1968. xix + 328 large pp. 1st ed., fine in orig. blue cloth. Some neat underlining of text. 8.5 x 11" A detailed study useful for historians detailing ship wrecks and damage caused.MILLASJC017615 £90

MILLER G. The Traveller's Guide to Madeira and the West Indies; being a hieroglyphic representation of appearances and incidents during a voyage out and homewards, in a series of engravings, from original drawings taken on the spot, &c. wherein is exhibited an exact delinieation of the principal objects on the passage: with a treatise explanatory of the various figures; in which is faithfully portrayed, a number of remarkable facts and occurrences, illustrative of the manners and customs on board of a Wst Indiaman, occasionally intersperced, with amusing anecdotes, highly descriptive of a life at sea; and comprehending a short account of the most interesting of the West India islands.. Haddington. 1815. 119pp + erratta + 10 plates. 1st ed., light browning otherwise clean in modern half calf retaining most of original printed boards. A very scarce work describing the voyage to and from the West Indies.MILLERG018452 £525

MILLS T. Great West Indians. Life Stories for Young Readers. Longman Caribbean. 1973. 99pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Fine. MILLST016624 £16

MITCHELL C. Finisterre sails the Windward Islands. National Geographical Magazine CXXVIII. 1965 Dec. 46pp article in comp. magazine. Includes many colour photo plates.MITCHELL011635 £4

MITCHELL C. A fresh breeze stirs the Leewards. National Geographical Magazine CXXX. 1966 Oct. 44pp article in comp. magazine. Includes many colour photo plates.MITCHELL011636 £4

MITCHELL Sir H. Caribbean patterns. A political and economic study of the contemporary Caribbean. Chambers. 1967. 520pp + 87 photo plates and folding maps. 1st ed., mostly fine in torn D/W. An important work on the subject.MITCHELL011541 £25

MONTGOMERY J. The West Indies and other poems. London. 1828. 160pp. 7th ed., fine in orig. cloth. Long poem written in honour of the abolition of the African slave trade by the British Legislature in 1807.MONTGOME005469 £60

MORISON S.E. Christopher Columbus Admiral of the Ocean sea. Little Brown & Co., Boston. 1942. 680pp + plates and plans. 1st ed., fine in worn orig. cloth. Well illustrated and important biography.MORISONS005589 £15

MORRIS J. The Candywine Development. A novel of suspense. Collins & Sangster, Jamaica. 1970. 287pp. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. Novel by Jamaican author set in the Caribbean.MORRISJ016702 £6

MORRIS M. The Faber book of contemporary Caribbean short stories. Faber & Faber. 1990. 275pp. Paperback. Clean. MORRISM017064 £4

MUNROE T. Readings in Government and Politics of the West Indies. Department of Government, Uni. of the W.I. 1971. xi + 270 large pp. Fine in card covers. MUNROET016638 £12

MURRAY J.A. The islands and the sea. Five centuries of nature writing from the Caribbean. Oxford Uni. Press. 1991. 329pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Fine anthology arranged in date order.MURRAYJA005594 £18

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

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

NEWLANDS J.A.R. & B.A.R. Sugar, a handbook for planters and refiners. Being a comprehensive treatise on the culture of sugar yielding plants, and the manufacture, refining, and analysis of cane, beet, palm, maple, melon, sorghum, and starch sugars with copious statistics of their production and commerce, and a chapter on the distillation of rum. E. & F.N. Spon. 1909. 876pp + folding plans and plates + ads. Revised ed., fine in orig. pictorial cloth. NEWLANDS005601 £95

NEWMAN F.W. Anglo-Saxon abolition of negro slavery. Negro Uni. Press, New York. 1969. 136pp. Reprint of 1889 ed., fine in orig. brown cloth. NEWMANFW005602 £8

NORTON A.J. Norton's complete hand-book of Havana and Cuba containing full information for the tourist, settler, and investor; also an account of the American military occupation. Rand McNally & Co., Chicago. 1900. 324pp + plates and folding map. 1st ed., fine in slightly worn original cloth. NORTONAJ018160 £95

OBER F.A. The Knockabout Club in the Antilles and thereabouts. Boston. 1888. 239pp. 1st ed., slightly shaken in original pictorial boards. Boys adventure novel set in the Caribbean with historical notes and descriptions of many of the islands. Many fine woodcut illustrations.OBERFA017843 £60

OLIVER V.L. The monumental inscriptions of the British West Indies. Dorchester. 1927. 267 large pp. 1st ed., fine in orig. cloth. Record of inscriptions on headstones found in graveyards of Antigua, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, Trinidad & Tobago and Br Guiana plus military graveyards throughout all the islands. An important work.OLIVERVL006075 £120

PARRY J.H. A short history of the West Indies. Macmillan. 1957. 316pp + plates and folding maps. Reprint, fine in D/W. Very readable introduction to Caribbean history. Recommended.PARRYJH010189 £10

PARSONS E.C. Folk-Lore of the Antilles, French and English. Parts III. American Folk-Lore Society, New York. 1943. xvi + 487pp. 1st ed., fine in orig. cloth, spine slightly faded. PARSONSE014253 £75

PATON W.A. Down the islands. A voyage to the Caribbees. New York. 1887. 301 large pp + plates. 1st ed. Very fine in original maroon cloth, top of spine freyed. 6.5 x 8.5" Fine descriptions of many of the islands illustrated by photos and very attractive engraved views. Much on Antigua, Barbados, Martinique, St Kitts and St Lucia. A classic early work on the Caribbean. Cundall 2357.PATONWA016928 £85

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

PATTULLO P. Last resorts. The Cost of Tourism in the Caribbean. Cassell. 1996. xiii + 220pp. Paperback. Fine. PATTULLO017090 £4

PAYNE A. Dependency under challenge. The political economy of the Commonwealth Caribbean. Manchester Uni. Press. 1984. xi + 295pp. 1st ed., clean in D/W. PAYNEA016632 £18

PAYNE A. Grenada, Revolution and Invasion. Croom Helm. 1984. 233pp. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. PAYNEA017026 £16

PAYNE A. Modern Caribbean Politics. John Hopkins Uni. Press. 1993. 332pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Fine. PAYNEA017177 £8

PAYNE A.J. The Politics of the Caribbean Community 1961-79. Regional intergration amongst the New States. Manchester Uni. Press. 1980. xi + 299pp. 1st ed., clean in faded D/W. PAYNEAJ016644 £10

PAYNE A.J. The International Crisis in the Caribbean. Croom Helm. 1984. 177pp. 1st ed., clean in fine D/W. PAYNEAJ017126 £5

PEARCE J. Under the Eagle. U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Caribbean. Latin American Bureau. 1982. 295pp. Paperback. Fine. PEARCEJ016964 £3

PEMBERTON E. Caribbean Heritage. Leicestershire Museums. 1986. 16pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Illustrated guide to the slave trade in the Caribbean.PEMBERTO016417 £4

PENSON L.M. The Colonial Agents of the British West Indies. A study in Colonial Administration, mainly in the eighteenth century. Frank Cass Ltd. 1971. xii + 318pp + map. Facsimile reprint of 1924 ed., very fine in fine D/W. Detailed study of the workings and character of the powerful West Indian interest in London.PENSONLM015712 £50

PERKINS D. The United States and the Caribbean. Harvard Uni. Press. 1947. 253pp. 1st ed., h/s of U.S. navy on title page, fine in D/W. Description of U.S. policy with much on Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Panama, Costa Rica and Guatemala.PERKINSD005638 £14

PITMAN F.W. The development of the British West Indies 1700-1763. Archon Books. 1967. xiv + 495pp. Reprint of 1917 ed. Fine in D/W. Investigation of the industrial and economic conditions in the islands.PITMANFW015847 £45

PORTER G.R. The nature and properties of the Sugar Cane; with practical directions for the improvement of its culture, and the manufacture of its products. Smith, Elder & Co., London. 1843. xiv + 240pp + 6 plates. 2nd revised ed., very fine in fine orig. decorated green cloth. An important early work on sugar with very fine folding steel engravings showing sugar cane, furnaces and boilers, a sugar mill and distilling apparatus. This second ed. includes an additional chapter on the manufacture of sugar from beet-root.PORTERGR014198 £240

PORTER J. Sir Edw. Seaward's narrative of his shipwreck, and discovery of certain islands in the Caribbean sea; with a detail of many extraordinary and highly interesting events in his life, from the year 1733 to 1749. William P. Nimmo, London. 1878. 634pp. Fine in decorated cloth. A fictional work which created a great sensation at the time as the editor asserted that the diary was genuine. When pressed on the matter, she said 'Sir Walter Scott had his great secret: I must be allowed to keep my little one.' Sabin 64323.PORTERJ008952 £80

POUPEYE V. Caribbean Art. Thames & Hudson. 1998. 224pp. Paperback. Fine. Well illustrated in colour.POUPEYEV016718 £3

PRINSEN GEERLIGS H.C. The World's Cane Sugar industry. Past and present. Norman Rodger, Altrincham. 1912. lx + 399 + xvi pp + plates and folding maps. 4to. 1st ed., very fine in orig. blue cloth. A detailed work with chapters on sugar production in different countries. Much on the West Indies with maps of Barbados, Cuba and Jamaica. Over 60pp of adverts mostly for machinery with fine photo illustrations.PRINSENG013204 £120

RAGATZ L.J. A guide for the study of British Caribbean history, 1763-1834, including the abolition and emancipation movements. Govt. Printing Office, Washington. 1932. 725pp. 1st ed., very clean in slightly shaken orig.blue cloth. Fine bibliography with helpful notes on the importance and usefulness of the books listed. Highly recommended.RAGATZLJ015416 £75

RAMCHAND K. West Indian Poetry. An anthology for schools. Longman Caribbean. 1973. 132pp. Paperback. Fine. RAMCHAND016712 £5

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

RANSFORD O. The slave trade. The story of transatlantic slavery. Readers Union. 1972. 292pp + plates. Fine in D/W. Useful historical study.RANSFORD005674 £6

RAYNAL A. A philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies. By the Abbe Raynal. To which is added the revolution of America, by the same author. A new translation. With notes, large additions and improvements, and a copious index. Edinburgh. 1782. 6 vols with engraved frontispiece in vol. 1 Light browning mostly to prelims otherwise very fine in contemporary decorated full calf with raised bands and red labels. Usual wear to hinges and tops of spine. Decorative contemporary bookplates with inscription 'A Wight Man never wanted a weapon.'RAYNALA015251 £400

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

RICHMOND A.H. Colour Prejudice in Britain. A study of West Indian Workers in Liverpool, 1941-1951. Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1954. xi + 184pp + publisher's ads. 1st ed. Margin of one page highlighted in blue biro otherwise very fine in fine D/W. Account of West Indians who arrived in England in the 1940's and their assimilation into British society.RICHMOND017832 £25

RILEY N.D. A Field Guide to the Butterflies of the West Indies. Collins. 1975. 224pp + 24 colour plates. 1st ed., very fine in very good D/W. RILEYND016902 £24

RIPPY J.F. The Caribbean danger zone. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 1940. 296pp. 1st ed., fine in orig. cloth. Author's proposals to safeguard the U.S.A. during W.W.II. Establishment of protectorates in Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Panama and acquiring naval bases elsewhere in the Caribbean.RIPPYJF005701 £25

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. The Caribbean. The story of our sea of destiny. Bobbs-Merrill Co., New York. 1940. 361pp + plates. 1st ed., ex libre with h/s's on e.p.'s only, still fine in orig. cloth. Historical study from Columbus to 1940.ROBERTSW006029 £20

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

RODNEY W. The Groundings with my brothers. Bogle-L'Ouverture Pubs. 1975. 68pp. Paperback. Guyanese writer.RODNEYW016736 £10

ROLPH G.M. Something about sugar. Its history, growth, manufacture and distribution. J.J. Newbegin, San Francisco. 1917. 341 large pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in orig. cloth. An important handbook with technical analysis of growth, manufacture and refining plus chapters on each of the countries where sugar is produced with detailed historical notes, illustrated with many fine photo plates.ROLPHGM005706 £80

ROUT L.B. The African Experience in Spanish America. 1502 to the present day. Cambridge Latin American Studies. 1976. xv + 404pp. 1st ed., very fine in fine D/W. Much on the African slave trade to Spanish America.ROUTLB018149 £32

ROY L. Wailing the Dead to Sleep. Bogle-L'Ouverture Pub. 1988. 75pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Signed by author on title page and with letter about the book from the author's mother. Poetry.ROYL017014 £30

RUBIN V. Caribbean studies: a symposium. Uni. of Washington Press. 1960. 124pp. 2nd ed., fine in orig. cloth. Social studies incl. race relations, African heritage and family in the Caribbean.RUBINV005724 £18

RUCK S.K. The West Indian comes to England. A report prepared for the Trustees of the London Parochial Charities by the Family Welfare Association. Routledge Kegan Paul. 1960. xii + 187pp. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. West Indian immigrants living in England.RUCKSK017134 £10

RUTTER O. A traveller in the West Indies. Hutchinson & Co. 1936. 291pp. 2nd revised ed., clean in torn D/W. Classic travel book on the West Indies.RUTTERO014202 £8

RUTTER O. At the Three Sugar Loaves and Crown. A brief history of the firm of Messrs. Davison, Newman & Company now incorporated with the West Indian Produce Association Limited. Davison, Newman & Co. 1938. 39pp + plates. 1st ed., clean in original boards. History of London shop established in 1650 selling West Indian produce.RUTTERO018451 £40

RUTTER O. If Crab no Walk: A Traveller in the West Indies. Hutchinson & Co, London. 1933. 288pp + 33 photo plates and adverts. 2nd impression, very fine in original slightly faded blue cloth. An important and well written travel work. The author visited Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Cuba, the Bahamas, Grenada, St Lucia and St Vincent and makes observations on the state of the islands at that time. Includes 6pp of calypso songs.RUTTERO019110 £50

SAINSBURY N. Calendar of state papers. Colonial Series. America and the West Indies. Preserved in the state papers department of Her Majestys public records office. 1574-1660, 1661-1668 and 1669-1674. Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, London. 1860-1889. 3 vols. Large 8vo. Very fine in full navy decorated calf bindings by Riviere with the bookplates of Chatsworth House. 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.SAINSBUR015603 £250

SAINSBURY N. Calendar of state papers. Colonial Series. America and the West Indies. Preserved in the state papers department of Her Majestys public records office. 1675-1676, also Addenda, 1574-1674. Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, London. 1893. lxi + 594pp + errata + HMSO catalogue. Large 8vo. Very fine in orig. blue-green decorated blindstamped cloth. SAINSBUR015605 £40

SAINSBURY N. Calendar of state papers. Colonial Series. America and the West Indies. Preserved in the state papers department of Her Majestys public records office. 1677-1680. Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, London. 1896. 2 + lxi + 700pp + HMSO catalogue. Large 8vo. Very fine in orig. blue-green decorated blindstamped cloth. SAINSBUR015606 £40

SAINSBURY N. Calendar of state papers. Colonial Series. America and the West Indies. Preserved in the state papers department of Her Majestys public records office. 1681-1685. Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, London. 1896. 2 + lv + 828pp + errata + HMSO catalogue. Large 8vo. Very fine in orig. blue-green decorated blindstamped cloth. £40

SAINSBURY N. Calendar of state papers. Colonial Series. America and the West Indies. Preserved in the state papers department of Her Majestys public records office. 1685-1688. Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, London. 1899. 2 + xxxviii + 713pp + errata + HMSO catalogue. Large 8vo. Very fine in orig. blue-green decorated blindstamped cloth. .SAINSBUR015608 £40

SAINSBURY N. Calendar of state papers. Colonial Series. America and the West Indies. Preserved in the state papers department of Her Majestys public records office. 1689-1692. Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, London. 1901. 2 + xxxvi + 807pp + errata + HMSO catalogue. Large 8vo. Very fine in orig. blue-green decorated blindstamped cloth. £40

SAINSBURY N. 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. SAINSBUR015610 £40

SAINSBURY N. 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. SAINSBUR015611 £40

SALE K. The Conquest of Paradise. Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy. Papermac. 1992. 453pp. Paperback. SALEK016418 £2

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. SALKEYA017188 £8

SALKEY A. Havana Journal. Penguin. 1971. 316pp. Paperback. Fine. Description of the author's visit to Cuba.SALKEYA016982 £3

SALKEY A. Georgetown Journal. A Caribbean Writer's journey from London via Port of Spain to Georgetown, Guyana, 1970. New Beacon Books. 1972. 416pp. Paperback. Fine. Much on the 1970 rebellion in Trinidad.SALKEYA016977 £6

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

SALMON C.S. The Crown Colonies of Great Britain. An inquiry into their social condition and methods of administration. With a chapter on 'The black and the brown landholder of Jamaica' by R.G> Haliburton, Q.C., one of the land commissioners for the purchase of the estates of landlords in Prince Edward Island, 1875-6. Cassell & Co. 1885. ix + 184pp. 1st ed., ink stain on page edges otherwise very clean in original boards with cloth spine. Much on the social condition in the West Indies. Uncommon.SALMONCS016821 £35

SANDERSON I.T. Caribbean treasure. Viking Press, New York. 1939. 292pp. 1st U.S. ed., fine in orig. pictorial cloth, spine faded. Study of wildlife in Trinidad, Haiti and Suriname with attractive drawings by the author.SANDERSO011536 £10

SAUER C.O. The early Spanish Main. Uni. of California Press. 1966. xii + 306 large pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Study of the effects on the New World following its discovery by Columbus.SAUERCO014229 £24

SCHUCHERT C. Historical geology of the Antillean-Caribbean region or the lands bordering the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean sea. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 1935. 811pp + plates and folding maps. 1st ed., fine in worn D/W. Authorative handbook.SCHUCHER005737 £36

SCHWAB D. Caribbean. The Lesser Antilles. Insight Guides. 1994. 370pp. Paperback. Clean. Guidebook profusely illustrated with colour photos.SCHWABD017046 £6

SCOTT L. Witchbroom. Heinemann. 1992. 272pp. Paperback. Clean. Novel by Trinidad born author.SCOTTL017038 £3

SEARLE C. The Forsaken Lover. White Words and Black People. Penguin. 1973. 128pp. Paperback. Clean. The writer spent a year teaching in Tobago.SEARLEC017034 £2

SEEL Sir G. Development and welfare in the West Indies 1952 H.M.S.O. 1953. 104pp. 1st ed., card covers. SEELSIRG008247 £12

SELVON S. The Lonely Londoners. Longman Caribbean. 1972. 126pp. Paperback. Fine. Novel about West Indians living in London.SELVONS017028 £5

SEVERIN T. The Golden Antilles. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1970. xii + 336pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. History of the early British explorers in the Caribbean with much on Ralegh and Thomas Gage.SEVERINT005745 £17

SEVERIN T. Seeking Robinson Crusoe. Macmillan. 2002. 353pp. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. Historical study on the background for the inspiration for Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.SEVERINT015869 £8

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

SEYFARTH F. Tales of the Caribbean: a feast of islands. Spanish Main Press. 1988. 126pp. Clean in card covers. Sailing experiences around the islands with attractive line drawings in text.SEYFARTH011570 £8

SHERIDAN R. The development of the plantations to 1750. An era of West Indian prosperity 1750-1775. Caribbean Uni. Press. 1970. 120pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. SHERIDAN015866 £8

SHERLOCK P.M. Caribbean Citizen. Longmans, Green & Co. 1957. 158pp + photo plates. Paperback. Fine. SHERLOCK017161 £7

SHERLOCK P.M. West Indian Nations. A new history. Macmillan. 1973. 362pp. Paperback. Fine. SHERLOCK017082 £8

SHERWOOD M. Many Struggles. West Indian Workers and Service Personnel in Britain (1939-45). Karia Press. 1985. 138pp. Paperback. Clean. SHERWOOD017173 £10

SIMEY T.S. Welfare and planning in the West Indies. Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 1947. 267pp. Clean in original worn cloth. Seldom seen.SIMEYTS017186 £20

SLAVE TRADE Remarks upon the Evidence given by Thomas Irving, Esq. Inspector General of the Exports and Imports of Great Britain, before the Select Committee appointed to take the examination of witnesses on the slave trade. London. 1791. 16pp, 1st ed., minor tone spotting otherwise clean in later half maroon calf with marbled boards. 'Irving had expressed himself as doubting whether there were real benefits attached to the possession of colonies and had recommended abolition and the local breeding of needed blacks. The author of this pamphlet upholds the value of the British West Indies to Great Britain and supports the slave trade.' (Ragatz)SLAVETRA017839 £320

SLAVERY Brief remarks on the Slave Registry Bill; and upon a special report of the African Institution, recommending that measure. London. 1816. 67pp + table. 1st ed., disbound. Clean apart from table which is rather soiled. 'Denies the central Government's right to regulate the colonies' internal affairs. Denies that illegal importations of slaves had been taking place. Holds that the island slave laws were salutary and were faithfully carried out.' (Ragatz)SLAVERY014288 £85

SLAVERY Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter. London. 1825-7. 2 vols. 392 + 488 + 12pp. 1st ed., fine in slightly worn half calf. Reprint of a monthly magazine together with detailed index. Reports from all the West Indian islands plus Berbice and Mauritius. Many eye-witness reports of maltreatment of slaves with names and details of estates. Discussion of slave laws and moves towards the emancipation of the slaves. Rare.SLAVERY013412 £850

SLAVERY Evidence relative to the slave trade. Extracts from the evidence taken before committees of the two Houses of Parliament relative to the slave trade. Negro Uni Press. 1969. 128pp. Fine. Reprint of 1851 ed.SLAVERY000154 £15

SLESIN S. 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.SLESINS012960 £45

SMITH B. Escape to the West Indies. A guidebook to the islands of the Caribbean. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1958. 397pp. Revised ed., fine in spotted D/W. Chapters on each of the islands with many fine photo plates.SMITHB010489 £12

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.G. Culture, Race and Class in the Commonwealth Caribbean. University of the W.I. 1984. xiv + 163pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Fine. SMITHMG017174 £10

SOUTHEY Cap. T. Chronological history of the West Indies. London. 1827. 3 vols. 8vo. 336 + 552 + 620pp. 1st ed., in later fine quarter calf with marbled boards retaining orig. e.p.'s A handsome set. A most useful and well researched work. The author was attached to the Royal Navy and served in Caribbean waters during the first decade of the C19th. Useful for the 100's of dispatches, colonial and parliamentary acts and treaties which it includes. Sabin 88568.SOUTHEYC014935 £750

ST JOHNSTON T.R. West Indian Pepper-Pot. Or thirteen 'Quashie' stories.. Phillip Allan & Co, London. 1928. 209pp + 13 col. plates. 1st ed. Some tone spotting mostly confined to page margins and title page. Clean in original orange cloth. Stories set in the West Indies with fine colour illustrations by Eva Wilkin.STJOHNST017718 £44

STANLEY E. Claims and resources of the West Indian Colonies. A letter to the Rt. Hon. W.E. Gladstone, M.P. London. 1850. 111pp, 2nd ed., fine in modern ¼ leather binding. Proposes to protect W.I. planters by sanctions to prevent the import of goods produced by slaves such as sugar from Cuba.STANLEYE002916 £135

STARK A.R. British West Indies. Economic and commercial conditions in the Eastern Caribbean. H.M.S.O. 1952. 74pp + folding map. 1st ed., clean in card covers. STARKAR011498 £8

STARK J.H. Stark's history and guide to Barbados and the Caribbee Islands, containing a description of everything on or about these islands of which the visitor or resident may desire information, including their history, inhabitants, climate, agriculture, geology, government and resources. Boston. 1893. 224pp + plates, folding maps and ads. 1st ed. Very fine in clean pictorial cloth. Contains fine engravings and photo views of the islands. Mostly on Barbados, but a little on St Kitts Nevis, Antigua, Montserrat, Martinique and St Lucia.STARKJH017242 £95

STEPHEN J. The slavery of the British West India Colonies delineated. As it exists both in law and practice, and compared with the slavery of other countries, antcient and modern. London. 1824. 2 vols., 480 + 452pp. 1st ed., slight damp staining mostly in margins and only affecting some pages otherwise fine in modern but old style sugar paper boards with paper labels. One of the classics of emancipationist literature. The author was an Englishman resident in St Kitts for 11 years and a brother in law of Wilberforce. A thorough learned treatise from the anti-slavery viewpoint. (Ragatz)STEPHENJ018450 £475

STOCKDALE Sir F. Development and welfare in the West Indies 1940-1942 H.M.S.O. 1943. 91pp. 1st ed., paper covers. Economic problems faced by the islands.STOCKDAL008248 £8

STOCKDALE Sir F. Development and welfare in the West Indies 1943-4. H.M.S.O. 1945. 115pp. 1st ed., ex libre with a few small h/s's otherwise clean in paper covers. Economic problems faced by the islands.STOCKDAL012647 £8

STODDARD C.A. Cruising among the Caribbees. Summer days in winter months. Chas. Scribner's Sons, New York. 1903. xi + 246pp + 22 photo plates. 2nd ed., first few pages with crease at top corner otherwise clean in orig. worn green cloth, spine faded. Good descriptions of the author's impressions of life on the islands with chapters on Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, St Kitts and Trinidad.STODDARD016478 £55

STOKES A. A view of the constitution of the British Colonies in North America and the West Indies, at the time the civil war broke out on the Continent of America. Dawsons of Pall Mall, London. 1969. xvi + 561pp. Facsimile reprint of 1783 first edition, very fine in brown cloth. The author was a Loyalist refugee from the mainland American possessions who had, at one time, been engaged in the practice of law in the Caribbean colonies. Includes notes on mode of conveying negroes and manumitting them. (Ragatz)STOKESA014156 £50

SUTTON P. Dual legacies in the contemporary Caribbean: continuing aspects of British and French Dominion. Frank Cass. 1986. x + 266pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Effects of colonial rule on the Caribbean islands. Essays by various authors with much on the sugar economy.SUTTONP014264 £32

SUTTON P. Europe and the Caribbean. Macmillan Caribbean. 1991. xii + 260pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Fine. SUTTONP017160 £12

SWANTON E.W. West Indies revisited. The M.C.C. tour 1959-60. Heinemann. 1960. 288pp + photo plates. 1st ed., clean in slightly torn D/W. SWANTONE017558 £12

SYMONDS D.M. Caribbean Adventure. Frederick Warne & Co. 1959. 224pp. 1st ed., clean in D/W. Boys novel about pirates in the Caribbean.SYMONDSD013364 £6

TALBOYS W.P. West India pickles. Diary of a cruise through the West Indies in the yacht Josephine. New York. 1876. 209pp. 2nd ed. SLightly browned otherwise clean in original pictorial cloth. The author visited St Thomas, Saba, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St Lucia, Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, St Domingo and Cuba and recounts his experiences. Illustrated with attractive engraving in text. TALBOYSW018068 £85

TEMPERLEY H. British Antislavery 1833-1870. Longman. 1972. 298pp. 1st ed., ex libre, still fine in D/W. History of the abolitionist movement from 1833.TEMPERLE005415 £18

THOMAS H. The slave trade. The history of the Atlantic slave trade 1440-1870. Picador. 1997. 925pp + plates. P.B. ed., fine. An important new history on the subject.THOMASH004598 £15

THOMAS J.J. Froudacity. West Indian fables by James Anthony Froude explained. New Beacon Books. 1969. 195pp. Paperback. Fine. THOMASJJ017047 £7

THOMAS-HOPE E.M. Perspectives on Caribbean regional identity. Centre for Latin America studies, Liverpool. 1984. v + 134 large pp. 1st ed., clean in blue card covers. THOMASHO016337 £12

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

THORNTON A.P. West India Policy under the restoration. Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 1956. 280pp + folding map. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Study of the relationship between the Crown and the colonies using original sources. Scarce.THORNTON013418 £50

THORPE R. A letter to William Wilberforce, Esq. M.P. Vice President of the African Institution, containing remarks on the reports of the Sierra Leone Company and African Institution: with hints respecting the means by which an universal abolition of the slave trade might be carried into effect. London. 1815. 84pp. 2nd edition. Mostly very clean in modern boards with cloth spine. Very scarce.THORPER016772 £185

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

TOOLEY R.V. Map Collectors' Circle No. 81 Printed maps of St Kitts, St Lucia and St Vincent. London. 1972. 19pp + 9 plates. 1st ed., fine card covers. Detailed listing of C17th - C19th maps of the islands with notes on identification and important features.TOOLEYRV018083 £24

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

TWELLS A. Colonialism, slavery and the Industrial Revolution 1700-1860. A case study: the Empire in South Yorkshire. Development Education Centre, S. Yorkshire. 1992. 3 large vols. 120 + illustrations and chart. 1st ed. Teacher's pack.TWELLSA016429 £35

ULLMAN J.R. Caribbean here and now. The complete vacation guide to 52 sunny islands and vacation lands in the Caribbean sea. Macmillan Co., New York. 1968. 389pp. Revised ed., fine in D/W. Many photo plates.ULLMANJR005792 £6

UNWIN R. The defeat of John Hawkins. A biography of his third slaving voyage. George Allen & Unwin. 1960. 319pp + plates. 2nd impression, fine in D/W. Historical study of Hawkin's voyage of 1567 to Africa and on to the Spanish colonies in the Caribbean to sell slaves.UNWINR005797 £18

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

VAN WYCK MASON F. Cutlass Empire. Doubleday & Co. 1949. xii + 396pp. 1st ed., clean in original worn green cloth. Historical novel based on the life of Henry Morgan.VANWYCKM016753 £3

VANDERCOOK J.W. Caribbee cruise. A book of the West Indies. Reynal & Hitchcock, New York. 1938. 349pp. 1st ed., fine in orig. cloth. Chapters on most of the islands giving a description and historical background.VA

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