Search Results: HISTORY - Caribbean and West Indies - General Books

Presidio Press, 2007. Paperback. Good. No dustjacket as issued. Cover has some wear and a small crease in lower right front and lower left rear corners. One small dark spot on right page edges.

Vintage Books by Random House. 1st printing thus,1984. Good paperback. 16mo,paperback,150pp. edgewear,rubbing,tanning,corners worn,scratches,cover. owner name top front end page,corners bumped,tanning,clean,tight,text. dance.

Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1968. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Dustjacket has some wear, slight darkening of spine, several small tears along the edges, and some chipping at top of spine. Cover has some wear.

Cincinnati, Ohio,: Friendship Press, 1993. 118 pp. Wraps have slight wear. Text has underlining, marginalia and paper clips.. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Libris.

New York: Fall River Press, 2008. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Remainder First Fall River Press Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Near Fine Good Condition. Remainder. An adventurous true story of a remarkable pirate of the 18th century, Bartholomew Roberst, aka "Black Bart", who plied the seas of the Caribbean, and to Newfoundland and West Africa. An audacious short-lived life, caught by the Royal Navy pirate hunters. An exciting two and a half years! The book is clean and unmarked, remainder mark, else fine. Internals very clean, no markings, no creasing, Tight and solid and square. 278 pages with Appendix 1: Roberts' Ships, Crews and Prizes; Appendix 2: Thomas Anstis's Articles (Thomas Anstis's deserted Roberts in the brigantine 'Good Fortune'); ; Selected Sources; and Index. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 2008, Fall River Press, New York, New York, USA

United Kingdom: Phoenix Press, 2002. Two small black marks on bottom page edges else clean & tight with very light wear. Nice! (bx 6). ISBN: 184212594x. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Kathryn Smith Miller, 1973. Hardcover. Acceptable/Good. Dustjacket has wear and several tears along the top edge. Cover has light wear and an indention and tear on top front edge. Stated first edition.

New Haven, CT, U.S.A.: Yale University Press, 2003 Dj has minor rubs, very minimal bottom edge wear, close to as new.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Like New/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.: Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.: University Press of Virginia, 1996, 1996. Hb. VG/VG. 1st. Signed by Author. 282pp. Extremities lightly rubbed; spine slightly slanted. Front flap Dj creased. Illus.; notes; biblio.; index. Signed & inscribed by author.. 1st. Hb. VG/VG.

Kessinger Publishing, 2009. Paperback. Very good. No dustjacket as issued. Cover has some wear and a very small crease in upper left rear corner.

New York: Moffat, Yard & Co. 1912 1st ed. 488pp. illus. green decorated cloth 8vo: Good/no dj [age browning; foxing; else a complete and tight copy] An examination of the Caribbean region by the noted American writer and diplomat Bonsal (1865-1951). Includes folding map of the West Indies.

New York: Sarpedon, 1994. 224pp/illus. The little-known history of Toussaint Louverture's overthrow of the Spanish armies of Haiti and the emancipation of the slaves in 1804 with their own constitution modelled on the French republic. Sadly Napoleon overthrew Louverture and he died in 1803 in Fort Joux, near Besancon in France, fed on just flour and desperate for a cup of coffee. Clean. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine/No Jacket - Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chicago: Belford, Middlebrook & Co., 1898. First Edition . Ecru Decorated Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. 10 1/4 " Tall x 13 1/2. Numerous Black and White Photographs and Maps. Unpaginated; pages clean but loose at spine. Pictorial history of Cuba, including the events leading up to the sinking of the Maine (1898). Covers lightly soiled; spine cloth torn, with several small pieces missing. Tips frayed. Previous owner's label on FEP.

Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.: Authorhouse, 2003. A fast paced and penetrating reconstruction of a daring 1960 payroll robbery in a New York City subway station and its surprising aftermath. Jacket has slight edgewear. Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chicago: Field Columbian Museum, 1895. First edition. printed wrappers. Good. Octavo, pp. 92-200, untrimmed, top cover detaching Eighteen plates of facsimiles of letters by Columbus which had been exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition. Issued as the second publication of the Field Columbian Museum, being Vol. 1, no.2, by the Museum, and edited by the Honorary Curator of the Columbus Memorial. In all, 32 parts, including the Will of Columbus. "Some of his letters have never been printed. Several had never been translated into English until the preparation of this Monograph -p100."

Sewn binding. Paper over boards. Audience: General/trade.
Signed by previous owner
World history

Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition. A fascinating account of Narciso Lopez's various exciting attempts to unseat Spanish power over Cuba during the 1840s and 1850s, his close friendship with various high American Southern officials and military leaders, his contemporaries and the times he lived in, the state of international relations during this period, much more. Hardcover with dust jacket, contains illustrations, notes, bibliography, indexed, 282pp. A very nice copy, the jacket neatly encased in an acid-free Brodart plastic protector. Rare. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

xiii+320 pages with double page pictorial title, charts, maps, photographs, tables, figures, illustrations, glossary, references and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with green lettering to spine and cover. First edition. Bread or Bullets! is the first thoroughly documented history of organized labor in nineteenth-century Cuba. Based on research in libraries and archives in Cuba, Spain, the United States, and the Netherlands, it focuses on how urban laborers joined together in collective action during the transition from slave to free labor and in the last decades of Spanish colonial rule in Cuba. Nineteenth-century Cuban colonial society and the slavery system sharply divided Cuba s inhabitants by race and origin. This deeply affected the labor movement that started in the late 1850s, as it became difficult to mobilize workers with common interests across the diverse ranks. Paradoxically, this also drove the workers to build class ties across divisions… Read More

Chicago/Dusseldorf: Klees/ Gustorf Publishers, 1991. Hardback. Very Good. Light shelfwear on dust jacket. Light stain on front free endpaper.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1938. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/No Jacket. Map; 47 Reproductions Of Photographs. Xxiv, 383 Pp. Yellow-Brown Cloth Printed In Green, Map Endpapers. First Printing. Very Good +, Slight Wear At Corners, No Fading Or Staining, No Names Or Marks, Hinges Tight, 1/4" Neatly Closed Pull-Tear At Top Of Spine.