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Lake Elsinore, California: Double Dot Enterprises, 2014. First Edition. Quarto, stiff printed wrappers, stapled, 48 pp. Color illustrations, black & white photographs. Fine.

New York: Hudson Hills Press, [1989]. First Edition, As Stated. Quarto, softbound (stiff, glossy, full-color illus. wrappers), cover flaps, 143 pp. Fine (As New), with Yani: The Brush of Innocence, An Activity Book for Children, Ages 4 through 10 Smithsonian Institution) laid-in (also in Fine condition). Illustrated in full-color.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (1999). Octavo, softbound (slick white stiff wrappers), xix, 333 pp. Fine. From lower cover: Lauded as a hero in his native land for his sensational but ultimately unsuccessful exploits during the 1848 German Revolution, Franz Sigel -- who immigrated to the United States in 1852 -- is among the most misunderstood figures of the American Civil War. He was appointed by Abraham Lincoln as a political general in the Union army, a move that galvanized northern support and led to a huge influx of German recruits who were eager to “fight mit Sigel.” But Sigel proved an inept and ineffectual leader and, unfortunately, is most often remembered for his disappointing failure at the Battle of New Market and his subsequent loss of command. In his insightful biography, Stephen D. Engle provides the first complete portrait of this enigmatic leader and German standard-bearer, showing Sigel to be a disciplined, self-sacrificing idealist who sparked more pride… Read More

Annapolis, MD: The United States Naval Institute, 1920. Octavo, dark green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 110 pp. Near-Fine, with slightly faded edges. Illustrated with b&w photos.

New York: Sturgis & Walton Company, 1917. 2nd printing. Inscribed and signed by the author. Octavo, illustrated blue cloth, 374 pp. Plates. Good+; few cover speckles and stains, front hinge beginning.

Sarasota: Pineapple Press, (2002). First Edition. Octavo, cream boards (hardcover), xi + 136 + [iii Bibliography] pp. Plates, plan. Fine in dust jacket.

Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, (1994). Octavo, navy blue cloth (hardcover), silver letters, xii + 301 pp. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: With his gift for storytelling, Ferdie Pacheco sitrs a gust of cigar smoke into the hot steam of cafe con leche and creates the magic of this lighthearted memoir. His stage is Ybor City, the colorful immigrant community on the edge of Tampa, and the time is 1935-45, the decade when Pacheco grew up and the community he loves outgrew its ethnic splendor...Pacheco writes with the sentimentality of a Latin lover and the instincts of a stand-up comic...

Gainesville: University Press of Florida, (1994). Signed by the Author. Octavo, navy blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xii + 301 pp. Bookplate “Selby Scholar Symposium”; otherwise, Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: With his gift for storytelling, Ferdie Pacheco stirs a gust of cigar smoke into the hot steam of cafe con leche and creates the magic of this lighthearted memoir. His stage is Ybor City, the colorful immigrant community on the edge of Tampa, and the time is 1935 - 45, the decade when Pacheco grew up and the community he loves outgrew its ethnic splendor. Pacheco’s respect for words began the day his story starts, when ten-year-old Ferdie climbs into a truck with Sweet Sam to deliver pharmaceuticals for La Economica, the family chemist shop. Along with prescription drugs, homeopathic nerve remedies, and laxatives, Sam totes a book of poetry and a dictionary, and before the day is out he prevails upon Ferdie to look up “procrastinate.” “Succulent” and… Read More

Gainesville: University Press of Florida, (1994). First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the Author. Octavo, navy blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xii + 301 pp. Bookplate “Selby Scholar Symposium”; otherwise, Near Fine, with light foxing to page edges; in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: With his gift for storytelling, Ferdie Pacheco stirs a gust of cigar smoke into the hot steam of cafe con leche and creates the magic of this lighthearted memoir. His stage is Ybor City, the colorful immigrant community on the edge of Tampa, and the time is 1935 - 45, the decade when Pacheco grew up and the community he loves outgrew its ethnic splendor. Pacheco’s respect for words began the day his story starts, when ten-year-old Ferdie climbs into a truck with Sweet Sam to deliver pharmaceuticals for La Economica, the family chemist shop. Along with prescription drugs, homeopathic nerve remedies, and laxatives, Sam totes a book of poetry and a dictionary, and before the day is out he… Read More

Tampa, Florida: University of Tampa Press, (2006). First Edition, stated. Quarto, gold cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 466 pp. Very Good in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Ybor City stands today as a beacon of history, culture, and legend. In a state primarily known for tourism and citrus, it is a sparkling anomaly: a factory town built by immigrants with an architecture, culture, cuisine, and industry pulsing with distinctive Latin flavor found nowhere else in the world. Here is the largest collection of historic cigar factory buildings and social clubs in the world -- most of them built of warm, red brick. And like many factory towns in the late twentieth century, it fell upon desperately hard times and was nearly lost. The story of its founding and growth is a history of the Spanish, Cuban, Italian, German, and Romanian immigrants who were the workers and the visionaries behind its success. The story of its rebirth as a National Landmark town is something of a modern miracle.… Read More

Ybor City, Florida: The Ybor Redevelopment Agency, (Circa 1980). Quarto, slick, full-color illus. stiff wrappers with black plastic, spiral spine (Softbound), unpaginated. Full-Color Trifold Map. Fine.

London: Century, 1985). First Edition. Octavo, blue boards (hardcover), silver letters, 342 pp. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: ‘The fastest man in the sky... a solid gold hero... the stuff of legend.’ Chuck Yeager has been described as all these things and more. A double-ace fighter pilot in the Second World War, the first man to break the sound barrier, the most daring and courageous test pilot, whose exploits inspired The Right Stuff, and the most colourful character ever to rise to the rank of US brigadier general. Chuck Yeager’s story is truly the stuff that dreams are made of. Fascinated by planes ever since he can remember, Yeager went straight from school to the US Air Force where, despite frequent brushes with the authorities for his hell-raising exploits, he quickly earned a reputation as one of the most skilled and fearless pilots. Within months of the USA entering the war, Yeager had scored no fewer than eleven Messerschmitts in one flight, and had a… Read More

[Miami]: Florida Association of Architects, 1933. Quarto, stiff printed wrappers, stapled, 24 pp. Photographs, advertisements. Fine.

Glendale, California: Tuesday Afternoon Club, 1933. Octavo, stiff wrappers, stapled, 63 pp. Tipped-in portrait of the club’s president. Very Good. Woman’s club.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the Author. Octavo, black illustrated cloth, tissue-protected frontis., 171 pp + ads. Very Good. Photographs gladly provided upon request. “Ten days after my graduation from Harvard I took my place as an unskilled workman in one of the largest of the great soft-coal mines that lie in the Middle West. It was with no thought of writing my experiences that I chose my occupation, but with the intention of learning by actual work the “operating end” of the great industry, in the hope that such practical knowledge as I should acquire would fit me to follow the business successfully. That this mine was operated in direct opposition to the local organization of union labor and had won considerable notoriety by successfully mining coal in spite of the most active hostility, gave an added interest to the work. The physical conditions of the mine were the most perfect that modern engineering has devised: the… Read More

Cleveland: World, [1956]. 1st edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. Octavo, blue cloth, 318 pp. Fine in dust jacket.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, An Atlantic Monthly Press Book, 1980. First Edition. Signed by author. Octavo; black cloth & gold, blind stamped board; gilt letters; 276 pp. Near-Fine in a Fine, beautifully illus., mylar protected dust jacket. ‘In the tradition of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, Yearwood is a magical novel peopled with giants and wandering swordsmen, princes, peasants, and sorceresses. The first book of an epic trilogy, it tells the story of the boyhood deeds of Finn: witchson, bastard, heir to kingdoms both on land and under sea...'

London: Robert Hale, (1959). First Edition. Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), 191 pp. Frontis portrait. Very Good in a badly chipped dust jacket.

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1922. First Edition. Octavo, gray boards (hardcover), 72 pp. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. From dust jacket (reverse): This is as touching and inspiring a story as even Mrs. Andrews ever wrote, one that might well bring comfort to thousands whose sons fell in the war; a story of a Kentucky boy and his mother, and of how he gave promise of great achievement, when the war came and he enlisted and was, in time, among the missing; and of how in the end a seeming sign from Heaven showed her that he had been selected to be honored by the nations of the world.

Saint Paul: J. E. Haynes, Publisher, (1927). Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, top edge red, plates, fold-out map at rear, vii, 356 pp. Good, with hinges starting. Contents: The Name “Yellowstone”; The Indian and the Yellowstone; The Trader and Trapper; John Colter; Early Knowledge of the Yellowstone; Bridger and His Stories; Renolds’ Expedition; The Gold-seeker; Discovery; The National Park Idea -- Its Origin and Realization; Why So Long Unknown; Later Explorations; The Park Names; Administrative History of the Park; Hostile Indians in the Park; Experiences of the Radersburg Tourists; Experiences of the Helena Tourists; Lost in the Wilderness; Boundaries and Topography; Geological History of the Park; The Rocks of the Park; Geysers; Hot Springs and Kindred Features; The Climate of the Park; Fauna of the Yellowstone; Flora of the Yellowstone; Forests of the Yellowstone; The Flowers of the Yellowstone; The Park Road System; Administration of the Park; A Tour of the Park --… Read More