A nice copy of this uncommon Crews title, a collection of personal essays and fiction that was not issued in hardcover, with a long inscription by the author. 138 pages. SOURCE: The Texas Crews collection again. First edition (first printing, with no statement of later printings). A near fine to.....
Price: $250
Five views of Lake Worth Beach and Palm Beach in 1895. The images are: 1) Ferry at Lake Worth with the Royal Poinciana Hotel in the distance. Captioned in the negative, "L.W.B. 9.14.95"; 2) Lake Worth with the Royal Poinciana Hotel in the distance. Captioned in the negative, "L.W.B. 9.24.95";.....
Price: $600
First Edition. A children's biography of Osceola and the Seminole War in Florida. 180 pages. No. 50 in the Landmark Books series. First edition (no statement of later printing; this book is the last on the Landmark list at the back of the book and on the rear panel of.....
Price: $150
First Edition. A considerable portion of this year's session was consumed by the impeachment of the Republican governor, Harrison Reed, led by members of his own party. He was accused of fraud connected to the issuance of railroad bonds. While the Assembly (formerly the House of Representatives, prior to the.....
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First Edition. With most of the legislature's time taken up with questions of infrastructure, particularly the Florida railroad, Governor Madision S. Perry uses his annual address to warn of coming conflict with the north and to encourage the spread of slavery. This is a nicely-bound volume of the daily legislative.....
Price: $300
First Edition. A nicely-bound volume of the daily log of this legislative session, with the message of Governor James E. Broome and a number of state office reports issued as an appendix to the governor's message. 175, 28 pages. Contents generally very good (no separate wrappers, as issued). This volume is.....
Price: $200
First Edition. 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.....
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The vintage gelatin silver prints of Jamaican migrant workers in Florida taken by a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer. The images show workers preparing to return home with large boxes of items purchased stateside and their personal belongings. One man, named Mervin McWon, carries two boom-box-style radios; another photograph depicts two.....
Price: $500
A stereoview card that can be read at many levels: as a glimpse of post-Reconstruction African American life in Florida, as a White supremacist image, as a statement of class superiority, and as an early image of the Lost Cause. These photographs offer a portrait of a young Black boy.....
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First Edition. An appeal to the federal government to attend to the military defense of Florida. The author, Charles Fenton Mercer, was a former member of Congress who left his post for financial reasons and took a job at a bank in Florida, where he was working when he wrote.....
Price: $200
