Commander C E R Alford (3 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. An odd, interesting and very informative tourist booklet about the island of Tobago. Short octavo trade paperback with some edgewear and spine creasing. A fold out map and tipped in colored frontis are included in the extensive preliminaries. The book is undated, but is called the sixth edition in the preface, and includes numerous advertisements for various services and stores which seem to place the book in the late 1950's or early '60's. 164 pp. Travel, Tourism, Tobago, History, Folklore, West Indies. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 145 pages. Illustrations on plates, many adverts of which illustrated, short list of some common Trinidad & Tobago Terms, lists of rates & fares (postal, air, hotels, clubs). (SL#132).

8vo, 21.5cm. Pp. 158, 1 fold. map with musical score of Tobago national hymn on verso, 8 photos, numerous advertisements (partly illustrated) throughout. Orig. pictorial stiff wrappers. Fine. - Scarce tourist's guide. Inscribed on title-page by editor: "I hope you found Tobago as beautiful and unspoilt as I did. Kathleen Alford, 19th Oct. 1959".…