From Anah Dunsheath RareBooks ABA ANZAAB ILAB, Auckland, NZ, New Zealand Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 03 May 2010
pp 373, full contemporary calf. Plates. Lord Derby's book plate. A handsome and complete copy of this interesting book. Seller Inventory # 018647
Title: The English in the West Indies.
Publisher: Longmans, 1888
Publication Date: 1888
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Pearson, G. (wood engravings) (illustrator). New Edition. viii, 328pp + 16pp publishers catalogue (June 1888), bw wood engravings, map. Decorative pictorial brown cloth. Slight rubbing at edges of spine and corners, cloth chipped at top of spine and spine darkened, minor foxing to prelims, some pages opened a little roughly. A nice copy of an attractive early edition. Travel in, and history of the English in the West Indies- includes Dominica, Jamaica, Trinidad, Haiti, Cuba, Buccaneers/Pirates, Grenada, Barbados, Tobago and the Negros (both slaves and free). Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 048988
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
New Edition. Longmans, Green and Co., London. 1888. Hardback. Dark brown cloth, type and illustration in black and white to spine and upper board. Spine very dulled with slight crumpling to head. Bookplate of Dublin Friends Institute to front paste-down end-paper and D.F.I. in gilt to foot of spine. Seller Inventory # 103287
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: The Book Business (P.B.F.A), London, United Kingdom
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Reprint, the year after the first edition, adverts dated June 1888. Map and plates all present. Spine is darkened with bumping to cloth at ends. Light wear to front hinge with 3 tiny holes to cloth (see images). Boards a bit rubbed with bumping to corners. Internally, hinges intact other than a small crack at base of rear one. Original owner's name on end paper. P.19 has an exaggerated fold to corner that has led to slight discolouration and creasing to adjacent leaves but it is minor. Postage will be confirmed when you enquire or order and for light or very heavy books will vary from the ABE quote which is based on a 1kg parcel. N.B. Postage to the USA will often be quite a bit less than the quote on ABE. Seller Inventory # 004888
Quantity: 1 available