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Last Train To Paradise

by Les Standiford

LES STANDIFORD is the author of eight critically acclaimed novels, including most recently Bone Key, as well as several works of nonfiction. He has received the Frank O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs. Since 1981 he has lived in Miami with his wife and three children. They are themselves survivors of Hurricane Andrew.

The Florida Keys

by John Viele

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Land Of Sunshine, State Of Dreams

by Gary R Mormino

Some Kind Of Paradise

by Mark Derr

Tales Of Old Florida

by Frank Oppel

The Last Paradise - the Building Of Marco Island

by Douglas Waitley

Southern Shores

by Roger Bansemer

Palmetto Country

by Stetson Kennedy

Easy Gardens For South Florida

by Pamela Crawford

Totch

by Loren G Brown

When Peacocks Were Roasted and Mullet Was Fried

by Doris Reynolds

The Swamp

by Michael Grunwald

Tales Of Old Florida

Birds Of Florida Field Guide

by Stan Tekiela

School Of Udhra

by Nathaniel MacKey

The Florida Negro

by Gary W McDonogh

Everglades

by Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Blue Boy

The Barefoot Mailman

by Theodore Pratt

Wild Plants For Survival In South Florida

by Julia F Morton

The Season

by Ronald Kessler

Florida, My Eden

by Frederic B Stresau

If Nothin' Don't Happen

by David M Newell

The End Of the Oxcart Trail

by Maria Stone

Florida Books & Ephemera

Our Fascinating Past

by Cleveland, Lindsey Williams; U S

Our World

by Whiston, Wayne, Editor

Our Fascinating Past, Charlotte Harbor

by Cleveland, Lindsey Williams; U S

Four photographs ca. 1890s of the Ocala Exposition in Florida showing Citrus County's exhibits and a special fruit display

by [Ocala Exposition]

[Ocala, Marion County, Florida, c. 1890s?]. Four photographs on convex card mounts with gilt edges. 5¼ x 8½inches. Contemporary pencil captions on verso. Some foxing in margins; two with unobtrusive staining; very good. The produce and abundance of Citrus County, Florida on display at the Ocala Exposition. The exposition was begun circa 1890 to promote and advance the development of citrus and other tropical and semi-tropical fruits in Florida. Two photographs show Citrus County's section of the... Read more about this item

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£526.18

Josiah Walls, Florida's Black Congressman of Reconstruction

by Peter D. Klingman

Gainesville: The University Presses of Florida, 1976. 157pages. Publisher's cloth. Very good in a good dust jacket. First edition and review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Biography of Josiah Walls (1842-1905), leading Black Reconstruction politician, a delegate to Florida's state constitutional convention of 1868, state politician, and U.S. Congressman from 1871 to 1876. "Walls was a political pragmatist who believed that whites and blacks must share power, and he worked for this ideal on the... Read more about this item

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£36.43

1948 original photograph of the Orlando Consolidated Co. auto parts store in Orlando, Florida

by [Jack Lord, Photographer]

Orlando: Jack Lord, Photographer. November 8, 1949. Silver print in landscape format. 8 x 10 inches. Crease lines; some signs of handling. A arm and rich image. Founded in 1924, this auto parts store was located at 920 West Central Avenue in Orlando, Florida. Likely taken for its 25th anniversary of the Orlando Consolidated Company, this photograph shows the variety of the store's advertising signage. It offers a study of how the company advertised to its current and potential customers.

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£80.95

Ca. 1880s-1890s albumen photograph of the St. Augustine Hotel, erected 1873

by [Unk.]

[Florida. N.p., ca. 1880s-1890s]. Photograph, 4 x 7 inches. Light foxing; in general, a very good and clean image. The St. Augustine Hotel was built in 1873 and increased an influx of Northern visitors eager to escape their colder Winter climes. A contemporary add described the hotel as "fronting the plaza and sea wall... commanding a view of the bay and ocean [...] The reputation of the house as a first-class family hotel will be maintained by the present proprietors, and no effort be spared to... Read more about this item

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£283.32

HOME AGAIN

by Scott, Margaret

Philadelphia: Westiminister, 1943. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ in a Very Good dustjacket. From the dj flap " Home Again is a story of contrast and conflict-warm and mellow as Florida's sunshine-gay and turbulent as New York itself.".

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£17.81

Marion County Florida. Ocala. "Land of Fulfilled Promises."... [cover title]

by [Marion County Board of Trade and County Commissioners]

[Ocala, Florida: Marion County Board of Trade, circa 1914]. 36 unnumbered pages. Oblong, 6 x 9 inches. Printed wrappers mended at spine with expert Japanese tissue mends. Unrecorded and rare. A land development publication that promotes agricultural opportunities in Marion County, Florida through extensive copy-"Good as the Best for Fruit and Vegetables, Better than the Rest for 'Hog and Hominy.'" Soil quality, dairy farming, the National Highway, railroad facilities, Dunnellon's important phosphate... Read more about this item

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£364.28

They all called it tropical: True tales of the romantic Everglades, Cape Sable, and the Florida Keys

by Brookfield, Charles M

Historical Association of Southern Florida, 1985. 9th. paperback. Very Good. 8x5x0. Minor shelf wear, rear cover has a sticker remnant, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. "This volume highlights the human history of the Everglades National Park and and the adjacent Florida Keys. It reveals little-known facts of the drama enacted about Cape Sable and other sections of the stranger than fiction land" - John D. Pennekamp

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£13.76

Acres of Ashes: The Story of the Great Fire that swept over the City of Jacksonville, Florida, on the Afternoon of Friday, May 3, 1901, resulting in the Loss of Seven Lives, Destruction of $15,000,000 in Property. Total Insurance Less Than $5,000,000

by Benjamin Harrison

Jacksonville: James A. Holloman, (1901). 98 unnumbered pages + ads and two fold-out plates. Illustrated wrappers soiled; faint edge-chipping to title-page, else very good. The front wrapper for this copy has a drawing by F.G. Storey -a demonic figure setting the grid of the city alight with a torch. We locate a variant printing of this title with a plain printed front cover, but not ours. This is the recounting of the events of The Great Fire of 1901. Jacksonville's fire, the third-largest urban fire... Read more about this item

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£121.42

1902 photograph of the Salasee Works Fernandina Beach, Nassau County, Florida owned by C.R. Weeks

by [C.R. Weeks]

[Florida. N.p.,]. 1902. Albumen photograph, 4½ x 6¾ inches, on plain original mount. Slight toning, a bit lightened; very good. In 1900, Architects' and Builders Magazine notes that Charles R. Weeks and Brothers of 542 West 14th Street New York were manufacturing a "plastering fibre" called Salasee: "This material, it is claimed, is not affected by hot lime, and is cleaner, stronger and cheaper than hair." The present 1902 photograph, annotated on its verso, documents that Weeks either moved his... Read more about this item

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£202.38

Florida's Seminole Indians

by E. Ross Allen; Wilfred T. Neill

Great Outdoors Publishing Company, 1965. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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£4.85

1890s Jacksonville, Florida Grand Union Hotel

by [Gould, Marshall Co.]

Jacksonville, Florida: Gould, Marshall Co., [c. 1890s]. Old mounting traces to verso; light surface wear; very good. Rare. A strong albumen photograph showing the Grand Union Hotel in Jacksonville, Florida on a sunny bright day. Hotel guests and employees sit or stand on both the ground and second level porches, with the majority of them staring directly at the photographer. One woman uses her hand to shade her eyes. A small group of people, most likely hotel employees, is visible on the far left. The... Read more about this item

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£202.38

Sarasota - Roaring Through the 20's

by Jeff Lahurd

Peppertree Press. paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Jeff LaHurd's new book is a look at Sarasota during the Roaring Twenties, when the community came into its own as a desirable destination for throngs of newcomers of every stripe:snowbirds, speculators, builders and developers. Vintage photographs grace the pages of this wonderful historical account of the 20s in Sarasota, Florida.

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£32.36

RACCOONS & EAGLES Two Views of American Wildlife

by Redford, Polly

NY: Dutton, 1965. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Illustrated with photos..

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£17.81

BLOOMSDAY FOR MAGGIE

by McNeer, May

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. Book. Illus. by Lynd Ward. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 246 pgs, cloth. This story set in Florida during Prohibition is about a young woman & her baptism by fire as a newspaper reporter..

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£24.28

C. 1870s photograph of the 1808 City Gate of St. Augustine, Florida

by Florida Club

[St. Augustine:] The Florida Club, aft. 1873. Series imprint on left: "St. Augustine Views, By the Florida Club." Light rubbing and soiling; very good. Photograph of the re-built city gates of St. Augustine, Florida, constructed in 1808 in the waning years of Spanish colonial rule. The gates were part of the city's outer defenses known as the Cubo Line. Behind the gate's two massive coquina stone block pillars stretches the causeway over the moat. The Florida Club, which published this view, was... Read more about this item

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£36.43

1904 Lake City, Florida photograph by the Gibson Bros. of Jacksonville, Florida

by [Gibson Bros.]

19 Main Street. Jacksonville, Fla., 1904. 4½ x 2¼ inches on larger mount. A photograph of a young, well-dressed man, somewhere in Lake City. Paul Hessler strikes a playful pose in front of a painted brick wall with a large advertisement depicting a horned owl centered on a full moon.

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£36.43

Ca. 1890-1895 photograph of Indian River in Ocala, Florida by photographer Charles Harrison Colby

by [Charles Harrison Colby, d. 1895]

[Ocala, Florida. Ca. 1890-1895]. Albumen photograph, on larger and original convex mount, all-edges gilt. Corner stress fracture and light signs of age; very good. A rich image showing a late 19th-century waterfront scene on the Indian River with palm trees, a wooden pier and small moored boats. Under loupe magnification, one sees residential and industrial buildings across the river, and other signs of urban development. The Indian River in Ocala, Florida is located in Marion County and is well known... Read more about this item

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£121.42

Ca. 1930s-40s photograph of a small Florida neighborhood, possibly Lakeland

by [Hinkley, photographer]

[Lakeland, Florida. Hinkley, (photographer), Ca. 1930s-40s]. Photograph. 7 x 9¼ inches. Near fine. An urbanscape view of a Florida community, possibly Lakeland. The photograph reveals a series of modest and identically-built residences, palm trees, and utility poles with street lamps. To the far left is signage for a store ("_____era Grocery") with an advertising sign for beer.

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£68.81

Centre St. Fernandina Historic District

by None Stated

Amelia Island Fernandina Restoration Foundation, Inc, 1976-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Minor shelf wear, front cover ha writing, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. 31 pages, black and white illustrations of architectural highlights of Centre St.

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£13.74

Ca. 1890-1895 Ocala, Marion County, Florida photograph by C.H. Colby showing a night-blooming Cereus taken with flashlight

by [Charles Harrison Colby, d. 1895]

[Ocala, Marion County, Florida, ca. 1890-1895]. Large albumen photograph on convex mount with original photographer's violet stamp; near fine. A wonderful image taken by an Ocala, Florida photographer for what was possibly an entry at the Ocala Exposition. The exposition was begun circa 1890 to promote and advance the development of citrus and other tropical and semi-tropical fruits in Florida. "Mrs. McClymond's" name is handwritten on a card and placed at the foot of her cereus plant. Captioned on... Read more about this item

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£202.38

Naples : 1940s To 1970s

by Lynne Howard Frazer

Arcadia Publishing, 2006. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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£5.61

A Book of Photos from the Land Where Dreams Come True. Fruitland Park Florida [cover title]

by [Lake County Land Owners' Association]

Jacksonville: The Drew Press, circa 1920s. 36pp. Oblong, 5¼ x 7¾ inches. Illustrated, stiff paper wrappers; stapled. Half tone illustrations. Minor cover soil and old pencil notes to rear cover; very good. Scarce Florida land development booklet promoting agricultural investments in fruit growing and poultry and cattle farming in Fruitland Park, Lake County, Florida. Readers are invited to request map, prices and terms from the Lake County Land Owners' Association who tout the area's soil, drainage,... Read more about this item

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£121.42

Big Sugar : Seasons in the Canefields of Florida

by Alec Wilkinson

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.