Category: Florida

Octavo, original green cloth (hardcover), top edge gilt, uncut, xv, 272 pp. Photographs. Guide for the English sportsman, mostly along the southwest Florida coast seeking tarpon. Good; ex-private library with a sheet pasted inside the rear cover indicating such, hinges a bit wabbly.
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1901-1941 Fortieth Anniversary Afro-American Life Insurance Co. Jacksonville, Florida.

By: Afro-American Life Insurance.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Afro-American Life Insurance, 1941.

Seller ID: vita5400

Octavo, paperbound (stiff, stapled, burgundy, black & white photo. illus. wrappers), [63] pp. Good, with wear to edges and covers. Foreword from W. H. Lee, Vice-President / Secretary: Looking backward to the humble beginning of a Negro Business Organization that had its embryonic development in the heart, soul and mind of seven (7) Negro man of sturdy, rustic character, racial pride, hopeful vision and indomitable will. Its birth in the Prayer Room of Bethel Baptist Church, with interesting observations of its upward climb over difficulties, obstacles, disappointments, with reverential app...
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Flagler: Rockefeller Partner and Florida Baron.

By: Akin, Edward N.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: University Press of Florida, (1991).

Seller ID: 61124bd

Octavo, paperbound (stiff, slick, b&w photo. illus. blue & white wrappers). New, in original shrink wrap.
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Tampa Urban Area Transportation Study. Transit Studies: February 1968.

By: Alan M. Voorhees & Associates, Inc.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: McLean, VA: Alan M. Voorhees & Associates, Inc., Transportation & Planning Consultants, 1968.

Seller ID: 4437s

Tall, oblong octavo; spiral bound; stiff, illus. covers; 88 pp. Fold-out maps, tables, figures. Damaged spiral binding; otherwise, Fine. ÔDear Mr. Smith [Executive Director, Hillsborough County Planning Commission]...Pursuant to our agreement of November 7, 1966, we have made detailed analysis of transit and operations in the Tampa urban area. This report documents the analyses, presents our proposals for operational improvements to your present transit system, and describes the role of transit in Tampa's future transportation network...'
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Seven Miles Out: The Story of Pasadena Community Church, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1924-1960.

By: Aldrich, Guy V.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Tampa, FL: Florida Grower Press, n.d.

Seller ID: 05158scs

Octavo, cream marbled boards, (hardcover), gilt letters and decoration to upper cover, [ii], 220 pp. Fine, in a Near-Fine dust jacket. Illustrated with b&w photos.
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Index of Plant Diseases in Florida.

By: Alfieri, S. A., Jr.; Langdon, K. R.; Wehlburg, C.; Kimbrough, J. W.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Gainesvile, FL: Division of Plant Industry, Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services. Bulletin 11. Revised 1984.

Seller ID: bas194

Quarto, paperbound (stiff, illus. grey wrappers), iv + 389 pp. Very Good+, with soiling to covers (interior clean & tight). From Preface: This publication represents the first revision of the Index of Plant Diseases in Florida, which was intitially published in July 1975. It hopefully reflects the most comprehensive compilation of diseases affecting the wide diversity of flora that contributes to the rich heritage of the State of Florida. This project is the result of cooperative efforts of many plant pathologists who have given unstintingly of their time and expertise over the many month...
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Good Camping in Florida, Twelfth Edition, 1969.

By: Allyn, Rube.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: St. Petersburg, FL: Great Outdoors, 1969.

Seller ID: 7283fd

Octavo, color-illustrated wrappers, stapled, 150 pp, [ii] pp. Photos. Maps. Very Good.
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Good Camping in Florida.

By: Allyn, Rube.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: St. Petersburg, FL: Great Outdoors Publishing Co., 1969.

Seller ID: 4531bd

Octavo, paperbound (stiff, stapled, full-color photo. illus. wrappers, 150 pp. Very Good.
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Guide to the Prehistory of Historic Spanish Point. Editors: Linda W. Mansperger, William H. Marquardt. Design and Line Drawings by Theodore Morris. Pencil Illustrations by Herman Trappman.

By: Almy, Marion M. and George M. Luer.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Historic Spanish Point, May 1993. Second Edition.

Seller ID: vas904

Tall, narrow octavo, green cloth (hardcover), slick pages, [42] pp. Fine (As New). The ÒGuide to PrehistoryÓ explores the archaeological evidence preserved at Historic Spanish Point. This thirty acre site is located on Little Sarasota Bay in Osprey, Florida. Its Native American treasures include a burial mound and two large shell middens, one of which features the ÒA Window to the PastÓ exhibition. In the 1800s, Historic Spanish Point was part of a pioneer homestead. Today, the pioneer home of Frank and Lizzie Guptill, the Webb citrus packing house, and Mary's Chapel adjacent to the Pion...
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Studies in Bad Housing in America: Florida Catalog of Misery, A Report on Bad Rural Housing in All 67 Florida Counties. Photographs and Text by the American Friends Service Committee, Florida Housing Program.

By: American Friends Service Committee, Florida Housing Program.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, PH: American Friends Service Committee, (1975).

Seller ID: 335460qs

Square octavo, paperbound (stiff sepia tone photo. illus. wrappers), 91 pp. Good+, with light speckling to covers, paper with title pasted to spine. Illustrated with numerous photographs.
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Florida Territory in 1844: The Diary of Master Edward Clifford Anderson, United States Navy. Edited, with a Foreword, Afterword, and Critical Apparatus, by W. Stanley Hoole.

By: Anderson, Master Edward, USN. Hoole, W. Stanley; Editor.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: University, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, (1977). Published in Honor of the American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776 - 1976, under the Auspices of the Alabama Bicentennial Commission.

Seller ID: vita5498

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, map illus. endpapers, 105 pp + plates. Near Fine, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) to page edges; in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear. From dust jacket: In 1833, at the age of eighteen, Edward Clifford Anderson, scion of an old and distinguished family of Savannah, Georgia, enlisted in the United States Navy. After serving on the U.S.S. Constitution and Lexington in the Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Caribbean squadrons, he was in 1844 assigned duty on the U.S.S. General Taylor, a coastal steamer that was surveying the waters and ha...
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Remembering Pensacola's Part in World War II.

By: Appleyard, John and the Students of Old Hometown, Escambia County School District, compilers.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Pensacola: Historic Pensacola, (2001). Second Printing.

Seller ID: 3988bd

Octavo, stiff illustrated wrappers, [ii], 96 pp. Photos., ports., illus. Fine.
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Remembering Pensacola's Part in World War II.

By: Appleyard, John and the Students of Old Hometown, Escambia County School District, compilers.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Pensacola: Historic Pensacola, (2001). Second Printing.

Seller ID: 3989bd

Octavo, stiff illustrated wrappers, [ii], 96 pp. Photos., ports., illus. Fine.
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The First Presbyterian Church, Pensacola, Florida: Its Story...1845-1976.

By: Appleyard, John.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Pensacola: The First Presbyterian Church, Pensacola, (1976). First Edition.

Seller ID: 3985bd

Octavo, stiff pictorial wrappers, stapled, typewritten, 100 pp, [20] pp. Photos., ports. Fine.
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The First United Methodist Church in Pensacola.

By: Appleyard, John.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Pensacola, Florida: First United Methodist Church, Pensacola, 1991. First Edition.

Seller ID: 3986bd

Octavo, softbound, 190 pp. Photos. Fine.
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Heart of a Wife: The Diary of a Southern a Southern Jewish Woman. Edited and with essays by her grandson, Marcus D. Rosenbaum.

By: Apte, Helen Jacobus.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Inc., (1998). First Edition.

Seller ID: 3243qsl2

Octavo, softbound (slick, photo. illus. wrappers), xvii + 222 pp. Fine. From lower cover: A sizzling portrait of a Southern Jewish woman: self-educated, nurtured on novels, poetry, and the classics, caught in a lifelong struggle between duty and desire. For forty years, Helen Jacobus Apte wrote in her diary from every compass point of the heart. Her rich inner life glistens through her grandson's deft and subtle editing.
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Memorial and Resolutions of The Legislature of Florida, in Favor of A grant of land for the erection of a court-house at Tampa. February 29, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. 30th Congress, 1st Session, Miscellaneous, No. 68. Senate.

By: Archer, J. T.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Tippin & Streeper, printers, 1848. 30th Congress, 1st Session, Miscellaneous No. 68, Senate.

Seller ID: 51524bd

Octavo, single page, original document. Very Good, with light foxing (age darkened spotting). ÒMemorial and Resolutions asking Congress to appropriate one hundred and sixty acres of land for the building of a court-house in Hillsborough county. To the honorable Seante and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled: Whereas, during the late Indian war in Florida, the court-house in Hillsborough county was burnt by the Indians; and whereas the present sources of said county are inadequate to the expenses of building another court-house; we therefore reques...
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Florida on Trial, 1593 - 1602. University of Miami Hispanic American Studies, Number 16. Edited by R. S. Boggs.

By: Arnade, Charles W.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Coral Gables, Florida: University of Miami Press, (1959).

Seller ID: 9921gcs

Octavo, paperbound (stiff stapled wrappers), 100 pp. Very Good, with darkened edges. From Introduction: This monograph grew out of a paper I read entitled ÒThe Trial of FloridaÓ at the centennial meeting of the Florida Historical Society in 1956 in St. Augustine. Further research provided abundant material to finish the story. Because the primary sources for this monograph are certain basic documents, such as the record of the testimony held in St. Augustine in 1602 and several long letters, no footnotes have been provided. The interested reader can easily find the source in the bibliogr...
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Category: Florida