Caribbean

Brand, W. Impressions of Haiti. The Hague: Mouton, 1965. 77 pages. Facsimile map. Publications of the Institute of Social Studies / Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Studien, Series Minor, VIII. The original soft cover volume has been bound in hard covers, with gilt title and author on spine. 'This booklet is largely based on a stay in Haiti from the beginning of March till the middle of May 1962 as a member of a mission organized by the Organization of American States, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the United Nations. My assignment was specifically concerned with demographic phenomena, but I have had access here to some findings of my colleagues as well.' - Preface. Very good hardcover. Bookplate inside hard and soft front covers. #26969. $35
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Bridges, Yseult, 1888-1971. Child of the Tropics: Victorian Memoirs. Edited and completed by Nicholas Guppy. London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1980. 205 pages. Photographs. End paper genealogies of the Guppy and Rostant families. The story of a girl who grew up in Trinidad in its Victorian heyday, giving a loving picture of that now-vanished world. Yseult's father was a gentle, learned and rather remote English eccentric. He had been Chief Inspector of Schools and was also the discoverer, among other things, of the Guppy fish which today still bears his name. - Front jacket panel. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket; many of the upper page corners have creases from folds. ISBN 0002629895. #28243. $170
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Brown, W. J. Jamaican Journey. London: Allen & Unwin, 1948. 1st edition. 204 pages. Good hardcover in poor dust jacket. #10499. $20
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Calixte, D. P. (Demosthenes Petrus), Colonel. Haiti: The Calvary of a Soldier. New York: Wendell Malliet and Company, 1939. xv, 125 pages. Photographs. Frontispiece portrait. Good hardcover, edges slightly creased and frayed. Former owner's bookplate and signature inside front cover. #26968. $70
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Coutant, Frank R. Intimate Glimpses of the West Indies. New York: Vantage Press, 1957. 1st edition. 119 pages. Dated, inscribed and signed by the author. 'For a quarter century I have been traveling to and studying the Caribbean Islands. Now it is my turn to share what I have learned, so that other students may press the study further.' - Preface. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. #25594. $15
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Dark, Richard. The Quest of the Indies. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1920. xii, 241 pages. Index. Illustrations. Maps. Good pictorial hardcover, edges and corners slightly rubbed. Former owner's bookplate and name inside front cover. #26970. $15
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Eaton, T. T. The Cruise of the Kaiserin. With Poetical Narrative By Martin Luther Berger. Louisville, Kentucky: Baptist Book Concern, 1903. Small 8vo (regular size). 125 pages. Map. Photographs. Good hardcover, edges worn. #13746. $30
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Goodwin, William B. The Lure of Gold, Being the Story of the Five Lost Ships of Christopher Columbus. Boston: Meador Publishing Company, 1940. 215 pages. Photographs. Maps. Frontispiece. Very good hardcover. Former owner's signature and bookplate inside front cover. #26972. $60
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Griffiths, Ann. Black Patriot and Martyr: Toussaint of Haiti. New York: Julian Messner, 1970. 192 pages. Index. Bibliography. Frontispiece map. A biography of Toussaint Louverture, born in 1714. Good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. Former owners signature and bookplate inside front cover. ISBN 0671322648. #26975. $12.50
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Hostos, Adolfo de. Caribbeans, Born and Bred. New York: Vantage Press, 1969. 1st edition. 206 pages. A book about Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Panama and Curacao, their enchantment and their meaning to the hemisphere. - Front jacket panel. Very good hardcover in slightly rubbed and worn dust jacket. Former owner's bookplate and signature inside front cover. #27006. $35
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Jamaica Arts Center. The World of Haitian Painting: From the Collection of Claude Auguste Douyon. Circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Travelling Exhibition Service. Jamaica, New York: Jamaica Arts Center, 1980. Folio. Good. 1 large poster. 23 x 18 inch poster advertising the Haitian Painting exhibit, December 6, 1980-January 4, 1981, with a reproduction of a painting by Philippe August on one side, with text and illustrations on the back side. One large poster, folded. #27108. $25
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Our Island's Past. Our Island's Past: Historical Documents about Cayman from the Cayman Islands National Archive. Volume 1: Edward Corbet's Report and Census of 1802 on the Cayman Islands. Preface and Introduction by Philip Pedley. George Town, Grand Cayman, British West Indies: A joint publication of the Cayman Islands National Archive and Cayman Free Press, 1992. viii, 46 pages. Manuscript facsimiles. Portrait of George Nugent. Part Two: Related Correspondence in the Nugent Papers. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #23568. $60
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Our Island's Past. Our Island's Past: Historical Documents about Cayman from the Cayman Islands National Archive. Volume 2: The Wreck of the Ten Sails. Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton, Guest Editor. Preface and Introduction by Philip Pedley. George Town, Grand Cayman, British West Indies: A joint publication of the Cayman Islands National Archive and Cayman Free Press, 1994. xvi, 78 pages. Manuscript facsimiles. Maps. Part Two: Related Correspondence in the Nugent Papers. 'This publication is based on 'The 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail, Cayman Islands, British West Indies: A Historical Study and Archaeological Survey,' by Margaret E. Leshikar (Ph. D. dissertation, Texas A&M University, 1993.' - Acknowledgments. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #23569. $60
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Pattee, Ricardo. Haiti: Pueblo Afroantillano. Madrid: Ediciones Cultura Hispanica, 1956. 446 pages. Bibliography. Photographs. Map. Collection Pueblos Hispanicos, 3. Text in Spanish. Very good hardcover in worn and frayed dust jacket. Former owner's bookplate and signature inside front cover. #26977. $20
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Perez Enriquez, Isabel, Coordinatora, Eugenia Santana Echegaray, Esperanza Garcia Trejo, Jose Antonio Melendez Meza, Grisel Valdes Cotayo, and Carmen Ramos Alonso. Cooperativismo, Colectivismo y Mujeres Campesinas en Cuba y en Mexico. Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas: UNACH: Universidad Autonoma de Chiapas, Colina Universitaria - CONACYT - SICAH, 1993-1994. 1st edition. [x], 368 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. Diagrams. Text in Spanish. Very good pictorial stiff wrappers. #22142. $75
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Ripley, Clements. Black Moon. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1933. 1st edition. 270 pages. A novel set in Haiti, made into a movie in 1934. Good pictorial hardcover, spine slightly worn, edges and corners slightly rubbed. Former owner's signature inside front and bookplate on front flyleaf. #26971. $55
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Thompson, William Murry. Providencia: The Hideaway Island. Edited by Gail Robertson. Charleston, South Carolina: W. Thompson, 2001. 1st edition. 41 pages. Bibliography. Color photographs. Illustrations. While sailing in Caribbean in 1979, the author and his son stopped at the small Island of Providencia. This is a retelling of some of the old history and bringing it up-to-date. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers. #22417. $25
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United Nations. Mission of Technical Assistance to Haiti. Report of the United Nations Mission of Technical Assistance to the Republic of Haiti. Preface by Trygve Lie. Lake Success, New York: United Nations, 1949. xvii, 327 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. 2 folding maps. United Nations Publications 1949, IIB, 2. Publication dated July 1949. The soft cover volume has been bound. Very good hardcover. Former owner's name on soft cover title page, bookplate and name inside title page, and stamps in various locations. #26978. $20
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