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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 Gasparilla Cookbook
by Junior League of Tampa
Tampa, Florida: Junior League of Tampa. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1978. Hard Cover. 326 pp. Illus. Edgewear. Corners rubbed. A nice collection of recipes with a Florida west coast orientation.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .
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NZ$25.53
Trees of Everglades National Park and the Florida Keys.
by STEVENSON, George B
Publisher's color-illustrated stiff wrappers with a black back-strip, octavo, pp. 32. Illustrations. This would seem to be a treasure trove for the Florida dendrophile, as previous owner has inserted copious neatly printed field observations in the text. Several newspaper clippings and newsletters have been left in the book, as well. Additionally, the owner has created a pocket inside the rear cover that has several more handwritten notes inserted. There is light wear to the book, likely from field...
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NZ$48.43
The Season: Inside Palm Beach and America's Richest Society
by Kessler, Ronald
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1999. x, 326 pages, colour illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "When unimaginable wealth combines with unlimited leisure time on an island barely three times the size of New York's Central Park, human foibles and desires, lust and greed, passion and avarice, become magnified and intensified. Like laboratory rats fed growth hormones, the 9800 Palm Beach...
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NZ$21.28
The Illustrated History of Florida Paper Money
by Cassidy, Daniel G
Author, Jacksonville, FL, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Very Good. Dust Jacket a trifle rubbed. Uncommon . Dust Jack in mylar guard. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Antiques & Collectibles; Florida. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 12599. .
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NZ$340.44
Florida Keys & Everglades
by Rick Farren
First printing 1999 soft-cover. Illustrations-Maps. 304pp. Fine copy.
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NZ$9.79
PIONEER FAMILY Life on Florida's Twentieth-Century Frontier
by Oesterreicher, Michel & Daniel L. Schafer
University Alabama Press. Near Fine. 1996. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by author on endpaper: "Best Wishes, Michel Oesterreicher". ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages; Signed by Author .
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NZ$30.64
Florida's Seminole Indians
by Neill, Wilfred T
St. Petersburg: Great Outdoors, 1956. 2nd ed. . Paperback. Near Fine/Wraps. 128 pages. History from formation, beginning in late eighteenth century, of the groups called Seminole. Four page bibliography. Print date not indicated, but it is a modern, post-1990 printing. Near Fine/Wraps. Clean, tight, unmarked. No wear on book. Item #: B5688. ** SAVE MORE ** Additional books in the same order ship for FREE via Standand Shipping.
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NZ$11.06
Some Kind of Paradise : A Chronicle of Man and the Land in Florida
by Mark Derr
HarperCollins Publishers, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good. Disclaimer: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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NZ$13.65
Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
by Les Standiford
New York: Crown / Broadway Books, August 2003. Trade Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and crisp. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 281 pages. An account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad--one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken--destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores. In 1904, entrepreneur Henry Flagler, partner to John D. Rockefeller,...
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NZ$23.75
Some Kind of Paradise: A Chronicle of Man and the Land in Florida
by Mark Derr
New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Some Kind of Paradise: A Chronicle of Man and the Land in Florida.
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NZ$38.97
Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida
by Mormino, Gary R
University Press of Florida, 2005. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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NZ$11.54
Kreiss Potassium Phosphate Co. Fertilizer
by Kreiss Potassium Phosphate Co
Kreiss Potassium Phosphate Co, 1927. Trade Paperback. Brochure, 26 numbered pages. With 5 B/W photographic illustrations, 4 full-page, of the plant, wharf, docks, rock bin, storage bin and kiln room. Very good copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback). Covers are foxed and soiled. Ink stamp on front cover 'Received San Francisco May 9 - 1927.'.
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NZ$53.19
A GUIDE TO THE WINDOWS OF ST. ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
by Turner, Nancy and Laban G. Lively
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. Very Good. 1991. Stapled wraps. A few scuff marks to the covers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 88 pages .
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NZ$17.02
The History of Castillo de San Marcos & Fort Matanzas from Contemporary Narratives and Letters
Softcover. Near Fine in illustrated wraps. 4" x 6."Ê National Park Service Source Book Series Number Three.
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NZ$25.53
Carte de la Florida et de la Georgia
by TARDIEU, Pierre-Francois
Pierre-Francois Tardieu. unbound. Map. Engraving with modern hand coloring. Image measures 12.5 x 16.75 inches. Sheet measures 17 x 22 inches. In very good condition.<br/> <br/> Beautiful early map of Florida and Georgia, western Louisiana, southern parts of the Carolinas and the Bahamas, circa 1798. The interior of Florida was not yet mapped with distortions to Baie du St. Espirit. Pierre Francois Tardieu (1711-1771) came from a family of engravers and map makers based in Paris. This map...
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Regni Mexicani seu Novae Hispaniae, Ludovicianae, N. Angliae, Carolinae, Virginiae et Pensylvaniae, necnon Insularum, Archipelagi Mexicani in America Septentrionali
by HOMANN, Johann Baptist
Nuremburg: Homann, Johann Baptist. unbound. Map. Copper engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 18.75" x 22.5".<br/> <br/> This striking circa 1720 map by Johann Baptist Homann extends from the Great Lakes southward to include Florida, West Indies, Central America, up to Venezuela, and from New Mexico to the eastern seaboard. Based on the 1703 Delisle map of Mexico and Florida, this map includes information from the explorations of La Salle, Bienville, Le Sueur,...
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FLORIDA THOROUGHBRED
by Johnson, Charlene R
University Press of Florida. Very Good. 1993. Softcover. Signed by author on title page. Gift inscription on page following the title page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 387 pages; Signed by Author .
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NZ$17.02
![A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Florida, Seventh Session [with] A Journal of the Proceedings of the Senate of the General Assembly of the State of Florida, Seventh Session](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/801/829/1465829801.0.b.jpg)
A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Florida, Seventh Session [with] A Journal of the Proceedings of the Senate of the General Assembly of the State of Florida, Seventh Session
by [Florida 1854]
Tallahassee, FL: Office of the Floridian & Journal, Printed by Dyke & Williams, 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A nicely-bound volume, collecting the Florida House and Senate proceedings for 1854-55. Each journal-the message of Governor James E. Broome to the legislature and a daily report of the activities of the legislative bodies-are followed by the same appendix of "Documents Accompanying the Governor's Message." House Journal pagination: 340 (Journal), 54 (Documents) pages. Senate...
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NZ$612.79
Postcards from Paradise
by June Keith
"Postcards from Paradise: Romancing Key West" by June Keith. Author Signature with Key West on the title page. Paperback (8.5" x 5'5") Revised Second Edition published by Palm Island Press of Key West. 1997 edition. Pictures. Index. 255pp. Book in Fine condition.
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NZ$17.02
FROM WILDERNESS TO METROPOLIS The History and Architecture of Dade County, 1825-1940
by Metropolitan Dade County
Metropolitan Dade County. Very Good-. 1992. Second Edition. Softcover. Corner bend to front cover. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 251 pages .
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NZ$73.19
Palmetto Country
by Kennedy, Stetson
NY: Duell, Sloan & Pearce. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Original gilt-titled cloth, map endpages. Stated first edition. Points a bit softened, spine ends nudged. Light staining to bottom edge of front cover. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is lightly worn along edges and has light moisture staining to bottom of spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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NZ$170.20
The Conquest of Florida by Hernando de Soto
by Irving, Theodore
New York: George P. Putnam, 1851. Second revised. Hardcover. Good +. Small 8vo, xxii, 457pp, black and white folding map of the SE of the United States entitled The Conquest of Florida, Green stamped cloth with gilt title at spine. Previous owners bookplate inside front cover, front free end paper has been removed. The author dedicates the work to his uncle, Washington Irving.
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NZ$212.78
Historic American Towns along the Atlantic Coast.
by BOESCHENSTEIN, Warren
Publisher's blue gilt-stamped cloth back-strip over blue boards, first printing, quarto, pp. xv, 331, [3]. Illustrations; maps. Very Good with light shelf wear and upper board tip bumps. Dust jacket Very Good and ensconced in a clear new sheet of protective mylar.
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NZ$38.21
Swamp Screamer: At Large With the Florida Panther
by Fergus, Charles
Paperback. Very Good.
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NZ$28.79
![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)
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