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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
Bonefish B. S. and Other Good Fish Stories
by Davidson, Tom
NP: Hudson Books. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2014. Hardcover. 0976250276 . In VG+ DJ (in protector) ; Photo hardcover binding. Color and B&W illustrations, bibliography. Author's fishing experiences in the Florida Keys ; 8vo; 205 pages .
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$24.00
Camp Life in Florida; A Handbook for Sportsmen and Settlers
by Charles Hallock
New York: Forest and Stream Publishing Company / American News Company, 1876. Very Good -. [New York]: Forest and Stream Publishing Company / American News Company, 1876. First Edition. 12mo; publisher's blue blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; vi,348,[12]pp.; folding map plate, pictorial ads in rear. Scuffing to extremities with exposure at corners, shallow loss at spine crown, else Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound.
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$100.00
GCN - Gay Community News: the gay weekly; vol. 4, #49, June 4, 1977: Matlovich: a reluctant hero
by Miller, Neil, editor, Leonard Matlovich, Anita Bryant, Don Barrett, John Connolly, Robert Chesley, Jim Marko, Tommi Avicolli, Don Shewey, et al
Boston: GCN, 1977. Newspaper. 16p., folded tabloid newspaper, columns, features, reports, resources, events, entertainment, ads, lightly toned, else very good on newsprint. Cover stories on Leonard Matlovich, Masturbation: do it yourself, New York Baths Burns. Also a Dade County Chronology and half a page cover on the Miami Referendum. The GCN began as a weekly newsletter for the Boston Area but expanded fairly quickly into a national tabloid and has even had sister publications sprout up in Hawaii and...
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$25.00
Ca. 1880s-1890s albumen photograph of the St. Augustine Hotel, erected 1873
by [Unk.]
[Florida. N.p., ca. 1880s-1890s]. Photograph, 4 x 7 inches. Light foxing; in general, a very good and clean image. The St. Augustine Hotel was built in 1873 and increased an influx of Northern visitors eager to escape their colder Winter climes. A contemporary add described the hotel as "fronting the plaza and sea wall... commanding a view of the bay and ocean [...] The reputation of the house as a first-class family hotel will be maintained by the present proprietors, and no effort be spared to...
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$350.00
Raices en el corazón: Relatos y Nuevos Poemas
by Ventura, Enrique J
Miami: Editorial Universal, 1971. 40p., wraps, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, rear wrap dampstained along edge else good condition. Text in Spanish. Third chapbook by the Cuban exile poet.
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$30.00
![Blueboy: the national magazine about men; vol. 15, December 1977; Christmas issue [inscribed & signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/719/678/739678719.0.b.0.jpg)
Blueboy: the national magazine about men; vol. 15, December 1977; Christmas issue [inscribed & signed]
by Fitzgerald, Bruce, editor, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Cade Ware, David Mitchell, fatima, Brandon Judell, Leigh W. Rutledge, Perry Brass, Trockadero Ballet, et al
Miami: Blueboy, Inc, 1977. Magazine. 100p. including covers 8.5x11 inches, erotic illustrations, photos, stories, features, reviews, lightly-worn gay men's magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Inscribed and signed by Leigh W. Rutledge and dated 11.9.77. Fassbinder profile. Hot shots at the Rodeo. Part two of Human Rights in Great Britain.
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$45.00
SPANISH HOOF
by Peck, Robert Newton
New York: Knopf, 1985 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 181 pgs, boards. A poignant novel of growing up, set on a Florida cattle ranch in 1933..
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$30.00
ONE: the homosexual magazine vol. 2, #9, November 1954: Miami Hurricane
by Reid, Ann Carll, editor, Lynn Pederson, James Barr, Jody Shotwell et al
Los Angeles: One, Inc, 1954. Magazine. 32p., including covers, 5.5x8.5 inches, worn covers else good digest size magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Includes cover story "Miami Hurricane" on the murder of a gay man, William Simpson, and the "storm" in the aftermath of the investigation, and an open letter by Barr. One, Inc., which took its name from Thomas Carlyle's statement that "A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one," was founded in LA in 1952 as a homophile organization with connections...
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$65.00
St. Augustine Florida
by Longworth, Maria
New York: James Miller, 1871. Hard Cover. Sketches of its History, Objects of Interest & Advantages as a Resort for Health & Recreation, with Notes for Northern Tourists on St. Johns River, etc. Sml. 8vo, 63pp, 36pp ads, stiff purple cloth boards sunned in patches, vgc. Gilt title on front cover; sunned spine has faded to light brownish color, with no title on spine. Adverts on endpapers. This edition does not have the map that appears in an 1869 edition. Howes 523.
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$75.00
PETALS PLUCKED FROM SUNNY CLIMES
by Silvia Sunshine (Abbie M. Brooks)
Nashville, Tenn.: Southern Methodist Publishing. Very Good+. 1886. Second Edition. Hardcover. A nice copy of this scarce book. Clean brown cloth with black designs on front cover and gilt title on spine. Pictorial frontispiece. Engraved Illustrations. Text is tight, clean and intact. Pages free of foxing. An account of the author's travels in Florida, Georgia and Cuba from 1872 - 1876. South. ; B/W Engravings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 495 pages .
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$175.00
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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$12.00
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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$45.00
![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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$450.00
Nadie recoge las hojas que se caen
by Boleda, Liz Frances
Miami: the author, 1978. 31p., 5.5x8 inches, text in Spanish, wraps sunned along stapled edge else very good first edition booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Short story by a Cuban exile.
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$25.00
HOME AGAIN
by Scott, Margaret
Philadelphia: Westiminister, 1943. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ in a Very Good dustjacket. From the dj flap " Home Again is a story of contrast and conflict-warm and mellow as Florida's sunshine-gay and turbulent as New York itself.".
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$22.00
17 poemas y un saludo
by Mayor Marsán, Marciel
N. pl: Editorial Ceugma, 1978. 17p., 5.25x8.25 inches, text in Spanish, very good self-published poetry chapbook in stapled orange wraps. Cuban American poet.
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$20.00
BLOOMSDAY FOR MAGGIE
by McNeer, May
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. Book. Illus. by Lynd Ward. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 246 pgs, cloth. This story set in Florida during Prohibition is about a young woman & her baptism by fire as a newspaper reporter..
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$30.00
![Low Rider: [aka Lowrider] vol. 25, #5, May, 2003: Miami Kickoff](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/492/339/1354339492.0.b.0.jpg)
Low Rider: [aka Lowrider] vol. 25, #5, May, 2003: Miami Kickoff
by Lopez, Alberto, publisher and editor
Los Angeles: Park Avenue Publishing, 2003. Magazine. 270p., 8.5x11 inches, articles, reviews, interviews, ads, photos, very good custom car magazine with a Chicano influence.
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$12.00
RACCOONS & EAGLES Two Views of American Wildlife
by Redford, Polly
NY: Dutton, 1965. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Illustrated with photos..
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$22.00
Raices en el corazón: Relatos y Nuevos Poemas
by Ventura, Enrique J
Miami: Editorial Universal, 1971. 40p., wraps, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, wraps evenly toned and dampstained along edges, spine chipped else good condition. Text in Spanish. Third chapbook by the Cuban exile poet.
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$25.00
Direct Hit: Images of Hurricane Charley
by Sun Coast Media Group
Port Charlotte, FL: Sun Coast Media Group. Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. 2004. Hardcover. No DJ as issued. ; Photo hardback binding. Color photo pictorial of devastation from Hurrican Charley which hit SW Florida in August of 2004 ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 128 pages .
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$12.00
Three carpetbag governors
by Current, Richard N
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1967. Hardcover. xiii, 108p., preface, biographical notes, ownership name in ink on front pastedown endpaper otherwise a very good first edition in clothand unclipped dj. The Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History Series. Essays on governors Harrison Reed of Florida (1868-1872) Henry Clay Warmoth of Louisiana (1868-1872) and Adelbert Ames of Mississippi (1872-1876). FYI, ownership signature is Alexander Saxton, very likely the historian of...
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$15.00
Largo
by Schnur, James Anthony
Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. Very Good+. 2011. Paperback. 0738582212 . Softcover, bibliography. Collection of captioned historic photos of Largo, FL. Part of the Images of America series; Images Of America; 8vo (6.5 X 0.31 X 9.25 inches); 128 pages .
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$12.00
David: vol. 6, #18, Jan. 18 - 24, 1980
by Godley, Henry C. editor & publisher
Ft. Lauderdale: International David Society, 1980. Magazine. [90p.], 5.5x8.25 inches, ads, articles, events, personals, wraps lightly edgeworn, else very good digest size magazine in stapled pictorial wraps.
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$35.00
TALES OF OLD FLORIDA
by Oppel, Frank & Tony Meisel
Castle / Book Sales. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket; Dust jacket spine is sun faded. 1987. Hardback. 1555212255 . 477 pages .
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$12.00
