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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.
Florida History Books & Ephemera
The Rogue Republic How Would-Be Patriots Waged the Shortest Revolution in American History
by Davis, William C
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2011. First Printing. Hardcover. 0151009252 . Book is clean and tight. Corners and ends of spine are bumped and shelf worn. The founding of the Republic of West Florida, which lasted 78 days. ; 9.10 X 5.90 X 1.50 inches; 400 pages .
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£16.19
The Saint in Miami
by Charteris, Leslie
Curtis, 1967-01-01. Paperback. Good. Saint (Simon Templar) Adventure Series 22 Paperback - Binding OK, reading creases spine, light edge wear, no marks, no stickers, browning inside - 6.9 x 4.2 x .625 inches
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£8.86
Swamp Screamer: At Large with the Florida Panther
by Fergus, Charles
NY: North Point Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Page tops foxed.. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 0865474915 . An account of the 50 remaining wild Florida panthers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 209 pages .
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£9.71
The Story of Old St. Augustine, Oldest City in the United States
by W. Howard Lee
St. Augustine: W. Howard Lee, 1951. Softcover. Near Fine in color illustrated wraps. Published with the support of the St. Augustine Historical Society, The National Park Service and the St Augustine and St. John's County Chamber of Commerce.
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£12.14
![Barnes & Porter Land Attorneys, Gainesville, Florida. With an Experience of Seven Years in the U.S. Land Office at Gainesville...[caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/440/369/1497369440.0.b.jpg)
Barnes & Porter Land Attorneys, Gainesville, Florida. With an Experience of Seven Years in the U.S. Land Office at Gainesville...[caption title]
by [Florida]. [Land Development]
Gainesville, Fl: Daily Advocate Job Print, 1890. Very good.. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Mild soiling, minor toning, old folds. A seemingly unrecorded real estate promotional leaflet issued by Louis A. Barnes and Watson Porter, local land attorneys working in and around Gainesville, Florida. The pair is seeking prospective purchasers for "much valuable" homestead lands now available for settlement again after being abandoned "under the homestead or pre-emption laws." They also offer services for...
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£384.51
Sarasota in Vintage Images
by LaHurd, Jeff
The History Press, 2004-11-30T00:00:01Z. paperback. Very Good. 105x5x149. Minor shelf wear, alternative cover art, see scanned image, binding tight, front endpage has a gift inscription, else pages clean and unmarked.
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£13.76
Florida, My Eden (Stresau Landscape Design Series)
by Stresau, Frederic B
Port Salerno (FL): Florida Classics Library, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good -/No Dust-jacket. In Wraps; Covers are clean and bright; front cover has some curling at upper left corner caused by some scuffing of top right corner of pages in book seen on both right and upper book edges at corner, possible a puppy chew? Damage does not affect text or images and is limited to extreme edges/corners; book interior is clean and tight; page 159/160, "Neriium Oleander 'Petite'...
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£7.72
![The Depression Kids [5 double-spaced typed manuscript pages, plus 4 pages of original cartoon drawings]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/567/335/975335567.0.b.1.jpg)
The Depression Kids [5 double-spaced typed manuscript pages, plus 4 pages of original cartoon drawings]
by [MAYNOR, Art]
[Tampa, Florida]: unpublished, 1985. unbound. Fine. Art Maynor. An archive of Tampa cartoonist Art Maynor, consisting of a five-page typed manuscript entitled "The Depression Kids" and four pages of original drawings (seven total images), backed on thick cardboard. The narrative is essentially a reminiscence of Tampa during the days of the Great Depression, and what it was like for young kids during that time. Maynor's attractive images portray games that he and his friends played in the...
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£101.19
Venice Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow, Including Osprey, Nokomis, Englewood & North Port
by James Curtis [Editor]
Lindsay Curtis Publishing Co, 1984-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 11x8x0. Softcover. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. 94 pages, profusely illustrated with black and white photos.
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£20.21
A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Florida at Its Twelfth Session
by [Florida 1852]
Tallahassee, FL: Office of the Floridian & Journal, Printed by Dyke & Carlisle, 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A nicely-bound volume of the daily log of this legislative session in the Florida House, which ran from November 17, 1862 to December 15, 1862. The governor, John Milton, opened the session with a defiant message in the face of considerable setbacks to Florida in the early years of the Civil War: "Our enemy, the United States, have (sic) taken possession of Pensacola, Fernandina,...
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£485.70
![Our Trip of 1925 [manuscript caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/798/872/1457872798.0.b.jpg)
Our Trip of 1925 [manuscript caption title]
by [Florida]. [Early Automobile Travel]
[Various locations including Florida, Missouri, and South Dakota], 1925. Very good.. Forty-five leaves, encompassing approximately fifty pages of manuscript narrative written in white ink, interspersed with 108 photographs and a handful of ephemeral items. Oblong octavo. Contemporary red cloth photograph album, black letters on front cover, string tied. Minor edge wear. A few leaves detached, several leaves of narrative faded and difficult to decipher. Still, a wonderful and unique production. A...
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£769.02
Florida, New York: Orange County, An Early Look At Its Faces, Places And Winding Staircases
by The Florida Historical Society
Unionville: The Florida Historical Society, 2002. Cloth. A near fine copy with penciled inscription to free endpaper in a very good dust jacket with a few closed tears.. ix, 262 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. 4to. Histories, architecture, maps. An excellent production.
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£40.48
![[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album, With Rare Images Showing the Aftermath of the Great Jacksonville Fire of 1901]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/790/872/1457872790.0.b.jpg)
[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album, With Rare Images Showing the Aftermath of the Great Jacksonville Fire of 1901]
by [Florida]
[Various locations in Florida], 1901. About very good.. [16] leaves, illustrated with thirty-two original vernacular photographs, all 3.5 x 3.5 inches, most with manuscript captions in ink above the images. Oblong octavo. Contemporary gray paper wrappers, white titles on front cover. Spine mostly split, a few shallow chips to edges. Internally clean. A small but important vernacular photograph album containing rare views of the devastation wrought by the Great Fire of 1901 in Jacksonville, Florida,...
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£1,092.82
From the Rocks to the Roots
by Cozzi, Santina (Text) and Vignati, Francesco (Photographs)
Milano, Italy: Agrimont. 1989. Oblong Quarto Size. Near Fine copy in Very Good (clear plastic) dustjacket. Illustrated with full page colour Photographs. Housed in paper covered box. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 143 pages. A look at the Agrimont/Conserv in Florida [producers of the fertilizer, Diammonium Phosphate] companies from within. A lavish pictorial tribute notable for its exploration and explanation of the environment around the business in Florida....
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£21.16
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
A History of the Pioneers
by John Viele
Pineapple Press, Incorporated, 1996. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. The dust jacket is missing. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£5.19
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
Big Sugar Seasons in the Canefields of Florida
by Wilkinson, Alec
Akfred A. Knopf. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 0394573129 . Minor stains to the exterior edge of pages only. Great overall condition. Minor cosmetic wear. No noteworthy blemishes. No writing.; 263 pages .
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£14.53
WHAT A BODY! **LOCKED ROOM/IMPOSSIBLE CRIME**
by Green, Alan
1951: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1951. 1st pbk printing, February 1951. Dell # 483 [.25 cover price]. Reading crease, long shallow cover crease, spine edges rubbed, lightly soiled at rear. Cover illustration by Gil Darling. Rear cover is interesting. Instead of the usual Map this one has "A Comparison Test Chart between this book and a woman. Why is it more interesting to spend an evening with this book than a beautiful woman?" This is the only such "chart" in the Dell series. (see photo). The first...
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£23.31
![A Florida Mosaic [composite albumen photograph]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/806/705/1518705806.0.b.jpg)
A Florida Mosaic [composite albumen photograph]
by Marcus H. Rogers
[Florida, c. 1887]. Photograph on mount. Overall 5¾ x 9¼ inches; image 4¼ x 7 inches. Imprinted on mount: "Negative on Stanley Dry Plate. Printed by J.B. Hunter on N.P.A. Green Ex. Brill. Albumen Paper." Light foxing in margins; few scattered stains in image; brief corner wear; very good. Photomontage of Florida scenes showing views in Old St. Augustine and Jacksonville and such vignettes as a field of pineapples, a "Florida poodle" (alligator), two Black boys, and a humorous drawing of a "Florida...
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£364.28
AND THE GIRL SCREAMED
by Brewer, Gill
N.Y.: Crest Books: Fawcett Publications, 1956. 1st edition, October 1956, so stated. Paperback Original. Crest Books #147 [.25 cover price]. Vintage paperback. Cover Illustration by Lu Kimmel. Spine edges rubbed, a few scrapes at rear, lightly soiled, else a very good, tight copy. a 1956 pulp classic by Brewer, who wrote like crazy for many years, churning out top-notch pulp novel after top-notch pulp novel. This one centers around a familiar theme of a man on the run from the law because of a murder...
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£11.66
Ca. 1890s Photograph of two women with a bicycle standing in front of a dress making parlor
by [Unkwn.]
[Likely Florida, ca. 1890s]. 5 x 5 inches. A very good clean image. From a collection of Florida photographs, two women posing in front of a house with a sign on a porch post reading "Dress Making Parlors". Possibly the proprietors of the business, the women pose with a bicycle. A large tropical plant and lush vegetation surround them.
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£36.43
Naples: 1940s to 1970s
by Howard Frazer, Lynne
Arcadia Publishing (SC), 2006. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£5.61
RE-DISCOVER FLORIDA
by Dunn, Hampton
Tampa: Trend House. Very Good-. 1973. Softcover. Inscribed and signed by author on title-page: "To colleen With Warm Regards Hampton Dunn". Includes author's business card. Some wear to the front cover at the top of the spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 85 pages; Signed by Author .
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£8.10
![STATE OF FLORIDA, COUNTY OF GADSDEN, KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT WE, JOHN W. JONES & W.J. LAURENCE, ARE HELD AND FIRMLY BOUND UNTO R.R. HAYGOOD & S.M. FLEISHMANN, IN THE SUM OF SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS, FOR THE PAYMENT WHEREOF, WELL AND TRULY TO BE MADE, WE BIND OURSELVES. . . THIS 29TH DAY OF JANUARY [1858] . . . THE CONDITION OF THIS OBLIGATION IS SUCH, THAT WHEREAS THE SHERIFF IN AND FOR SAID COUNTO [sic], BY VIRTUE OF 2 EXECUTIONS ISSUED FROM THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE COUNTY OF GADSDEN, IN FAVOR OF R.R. HAYGOOD & S.M. FLEISHMANN AGAINST JOHN W. JONES HAS LEVIED UPON THE FOLLOWING PROPERTY, TO-WIT: A NEGRO MAN NAMED TOM ABOUT 45 OR 50 YEARS OF AGE. . . AND THE SAID J.W. JONES WISHING TO REPLEVY THE SAME: NOW IF THE SAID J.W. JONES SHALL HAVE THE SAID PROPERTY FORTHCOMING AT QUINCY, IN SAID COUNTY, ON THE 1ST DAY OF MARCH A.D. 1858, AND DELIVER THE SAME TO THE SHERIFF OF SAID COUNTY, THEN THIS OBLIGATION TO BE VOID...;](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/056/219/1323219056.0.m.jpg)
![The Southern Sugar Company [Photograph Album]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/945/815/1385815945.0.m.jpg)
