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The Key To The Golden Islands [Florida History] by Corse, Carita Doggett (1891 - 1978) - 1931

by Corse, Carita Doggett (1891 - 1978)

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The Key To The Golden Islands [Florida History] by Corse, Carita Doggett (1891 - 1978) - 1931

The Key To The Golden Islands [Florida History]

by Corse, Carita Doggett (1891 - 1978)

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Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1931. First Edition, First Printing. Fair/No Dust Jacket.

Ex-library with usual markings. Spine reinforced with clear tape. Bindings firm and square, edges worn. 165 pages with an index and illustrations by Louise Turck, with a Foreword by Percy MacKaye.. Carita Doggett Corse was a Florida historian and writer who served as the Florida director of the Federal Writers' Project. 

In 1978, she was recognized for her work as an historian by the Florida Historical Society, and, in 1997, was posthumously inducted into the Florida Women's Hall of Fame, an honor roll recognizing women who have 'made significant contributions to the improvement of life for women and all Florida citizens.'
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  • Publisher University of North Carolina Press
  • Place of Publication Chapel Hill
  • Date Published 1931

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Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth cover is clean with ligh wear on bottom edge of boards and lightly bumped corners. Binding sound and straight. Previous owners name and date neatly in ink on first blank page. No other marks or writing in book. Gilt design on front has a darkened area and several bubbles under the cloth. lacking DJ ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 165 pages .
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The Key to the Golden Islands

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The University of North Carolina Press, 1/1/1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/None. Cloth hardcovers are clean, touch of shelfwear. Interior clean, binding tight. No dustjacket. Professional bookseller for 20 years. Orders shipped daily in cardboard bookfolds.
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Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1931. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. xvi, 151pp+ index. Spine sunned with some light rubbing to gilt decoration, else very good in publisher's brown cloth; lacking the jacket.
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Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1931. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 165 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in quarter white vellum with red cloth-covered boards. Light to moderate wear to the binding. The vellum is a little soiled from handling and there are two small worm-holes in the vellum on the front hinge. Corners are bumped. A sound copy with clean text. One of 200 copies. This copy is not numbered but it is signed.
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The Key To The Golden Islands: With a Foreword by Percy MacKaye. Signed, limited edition.

by Corse, Carita Doggett

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Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. xvi, 165 pages. Illustrated by Louise Turck. Red cloth covered boards with gilt and red embossed illustration block on front cover. Vellum spine with gilt stamped title. Illustrated end sheets. Top edge gilt. Untrimmed foredge. Light shelf and edge wear to the red cloth binding. A few tiny pin holes on the vellum front outer joint. Limited to 212 copies and printed on Hadrian vellum paper. This copy signed by the author and numbered 176.
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Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1931. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. #34 of 212 signed by the author. xvi, 151pp+ index. Publisher's vellum backed red cloth with gilt vignette on front. Pages slightly tanned, top of spine darkened, else very good.
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University of North Carolina Press, 1931. Autograph edition. Used - Very Good. 1931. University of North Carolina Press, 1931. Autograph edition. Cloth, 165 pages, illus., #145 of 212 signed copies. Boards discoloured around edges, otherwise very sound. (Subject: Americana & Regional History.)
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Key to the Golden Islands

by CORSE, Carita Doggett

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1931. (FLORIDA). CORSE, Carita Doggett. The Key to the Golden Islands. With a Foreword by Percy MacKaye. Illustrated by Louise Turck. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1931. Illus. xvi, 165pp. Orig. vellum-backed cloth with gilt cover vignette and spine lettering, t.e.g. Very good. Limited to 212 copies signed by the author. An excellent work on the islands at the mouth of the St. John's river.
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