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PATON W.A. Down the islands.
New York xiii + 301 large pp + plates + publisher's ads. Fine in original maroon cloth. 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. (Book ref. PATONWA019146)   £75.00
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MILLER H.H. Colonel Parke of Virginia.
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill xx + 232pp. 1st ed., clean in D/W. Biography of the C17th Virginian who became an infamous governor of the Leeward Is. and was murdered in Antigua. (Book ref. MILLERHH014187)   £12.00
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HANNAH Rev J. The Story of the Wreck of the Maria Mail Boat:
London 96pp + 3 plates and engraved frontispiece. Lacking front end paper. Occasional stains otherwise clean in original cloth. Description of the loss of the mail boat Maria off the coast of Antigua in 1826. (Book ref. WINBO0014)   £45.00
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MARRAT Rev. J. In the Tropics;
Wesleyan Conference Office, London 145pp + folding map and ads. 2nd ed. very fine in fine original green pictorial cloth. Descriptions of life in Wesleyan Missions in Antigua, Barbados, Br. Guiana and Tobago with attractive engraved plates. (Book ref. MARRATRE015313)   £65.00
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DAY C.W. Five years' residence in the West Indies.
London 2 vols. x + 335 + viii + 318pp + two engraved frontispieces. 1st ed., very fine in older half maroon calf with raised bands. The author visited Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad, St Vincent, Guadeloupe, Dominica, St Kitts and Antigua. The author gives a highly racist account of life in the islands but with some interesting details of daily social life. (Book ref. DAYCW014127)   £1200.00
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LEEWARD ISLANDS Sugar Cane experiments in the Leeward Islands.
Barbados 73 + 54 large pp. 1st ed., fine in paper covers. Together with similar reports for each successive year to 1911 inclusive. (10 items) (Book ref. LEEWARDI020186)   £300.00
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DAVIS M. Antigua Black.
Scrimshaw Press, San Francisco 143 large pp. 1st ltd. ed. of 5000 copies. Corners slightly bumped otherwise fine in D/W. 10.5 x 12.5in Fine black and white photographs by Margo Davis plus colour reproductions of Clark's coloured aquatint views of Antigua. (Book ref. DAVISM020791)   £45.00
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DAVIS J.G.M. War Tax Stamps of the British Empire First World War.
R.P.S.L. xii + 400 large pp. 1st ed., new in D/W. Historical background to the issues, study of the overprints and postal use. (Book ref. WOPHB0028)   £55.00
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1990 (12 Dec)
Christies E.V. Toeg collection of Antigua. 43pp + PR. (Book ref. 1990002769)   £8.00
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1957 (25 Sep) British Empire
Robson Lowe 26pp + 7 plates + P.R. Includes C.W. Meredith Antigua. (Book ref. 1957020136)   £15.00
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1951 (21 Nov)
Robson Lowe The Codrington Correspondence 1746-1851 incl. Antigua and Barbuda. 28pp. (Book ref. 1951000378)   £18.00
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ARMSTRONG D.B. The Edwardian stamps of the British Empire.
Bright & Son, London 79pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. Listing of EDVII stamps of Antigua, Bahamas, Bechuanaland, B.C.A., Br Honduras, Canada, Caymans, Ceylon, Cyprus and Dominica. (Book ref. ARMSTRON018550)   £7.00
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SAUNDERS F.R. Antigua. The definitive series of King George VI.
KGVI Collectors Society 28 large pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Punched for ring binder. (Book ref. SAUNDERS013028)   £16.00
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LOCKETT M.G. Antigua then.
Antigua Press 216pp. 2nd ed., fine in card covers. Memoir of a lady who lived on Antigua from 1920 to 1943, the daughter of a plantation owner. Fascinating description of day to day life. (Book ref. LOCKETTM014027)   £16.00
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GASPAR D.B. Bondsmen and rebels.
John Hopkins Uni Press 338pp, 1st ed., occasional pen markings in margin o/w fine in orig. cloth. Fine historical study. (Book ref. GASPARDB003096)   £20.00
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DREW S. The Life of the Rev. Thomas Coke, LL.D.
London 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 20932 (Book ref. DREWS015421)   £135.00
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BCPSG Leeward Islands.
BCPSG 67pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. Articles on Leeward Is. Postmarks and P.O.'s by Oliver, St Kitts Nevis manuscript cancels by Wynstra, Official Mail of Anguilla by Ramkissoon, Montserrat by Freeland, B.V.I. WWII Censor Marks by Fredrick and McCann and WWII civil censorship in Antigua by Tweddell. (Book ref. BCPSG015778)   £8.00
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