Florida

Softcover. Gainesville FL, University Press of Florida, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 283 pages. Index and bibliography. Many never-published-before images and a complete history of the slow development and long decline of the railroad in Florida. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Godine, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 23 pages of text plus 63 black & white plates. Dust jacket has light edgewear. Dust jacket with mild edgewear, protected by a mylar cover.

Softcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 116 pages illustrated in color. Documents the superb and amazing Art Deco buildings of Miami Beach. Bright and beautiful full color photos feature mainly the exteriors of these gems. Clean copy.

Softcover. Miami Beach, FL, Florida Architecture, Inc., 1st, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large softcover, 168 pages, illustrated throughout, a publication of Architecture and Allied Design in Florida, floor plan sketches by David B. Spalding. Minor corner and edge wear and fade, light foxing on top edge, otherwise, clean and tight.

Hardcover. Guilford CT, Rowman & Littlefield, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 294 pages, b&w illustrations. The story of how Florida became entwined with Americans' twentieth-century hopes, dreams, and expectations is also a tale of mass delusion, real estate collapses, and catastrophic hurricanes. For Sale -- American Paradise concentrates on the experiences of American icon William Jennings Bryan, journalist Edwin Menninger, and others who shaped the image of Florida that we know today and who sold that image as America's paradise. The cast also includes the Marx Brothers, Thomas Edison, Al Capone, a pack of backwoods bandits known as the Ashley Gang, and the visionaries and businessmen who poured their dreams and their cash into Florida in the roaring, raucous 1920s.

Hardcover. Tallahassee FL, Sentry Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 224 pages, b&w photos. Signed by Rogers and inscribed by Kate Ireland, owner of Foshalee plantation, on the title page. Foshalee Plantation is a historic quail hunting estate located in northern Leon County, Florida, approximately 12 miles north of Tallahassee, within the Red Hills region spanning the Georgia-Florida border. Originally encompassing around 11,500 acres, it was established in the early 20th century as one of the oldest continuous private quail preserves in the area, transformed from former cotton lands into a managed hunting retreat for northern elites. The plantation, associated with prominent families including the Whitneys, Clarks, Irelands, and Ingalls, emphasized bobwhite quail production through practices like prescribed burning and multi-aged forest management, reflecting the broader shift in the region from agriculture to sporting conservation after the Civil War.

Hardcover. London, England, C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1st Edition, 1902, With 48 illustrations. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt top edge.Green cloth bound cover boards, gilt title and design on front cover and spine. Spine has fading and fraying at top and bottom. Front cover board has fading to top. Cover boards having shipping at edges. Pages and edges have some tanning from age.

Softcover. Sarasota FL, Pineapple Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 260 pages. Follow Ernest Hemingway's exploits on the Bahamian island of Bimini from 1935 to 1937, the very moment in time when the International Game Fish Association (under the author's co-leadership) was emerging. Covers Hemingway's role in the formation of the IGFA, his underappreciated seminal writing about competitive saltwater angling when the sport was still in its infancy, the amazing fishing he enjoyed on the island, and the way all of these experiences translated into the composition of his posthumous novel Islands in the Stream. This is the only book on this period in Hemingway's life and reveals unexpected dimensions to the Hemingway portrait that deserve attention, including his surprising humor, his advanced conservationist views several decades before the environmental movement even began, and his egalitarian ideas about his contemporary female counterparts in the big-game fishing world--challenging the usual portrait of Hemingway as a chauvinist with no personal rules, boundaries, or conscience. Includes beautiful vintage photographs of 1930s Bimini that have never been published in book form.

Hardcover. Florida, Brevard County Historical Commission, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 271 pages. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Gilt decoration on cover. Gilt titles on spine. Small tear to bottom corner of dust jacket repaired with tape. Light wear to dust jacket. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY/Cambridge MA, The Architectural History Foundation/The MIT Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This is the first complete biography of the inimitable society architect Addison Mizner, whose Spanish Revival buildings created a new style of resort architecture for Palm Beach and south Florida during the boom years of the 1920s. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Assouline, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. Morris Lapidus, the famous mid-century architect, outraged the architectural profession and riled critics with an architecture that was popularly embraced. His Miami Beach resort hotels - the Fontainebleau, the Eden Roc, and the Bal Harbour Sheraton - are synonymous with the glamour of Miami Beach in the 50s. Lapidus hotels are infamous as the stomping grounds of the Rat Pack and their fellow movie stars. Yet, during his life he was never published in architectural magazines and was discredited by the architectural profession - before undergoing a renaissance as a prophet of postmodernism. This book establishes the importance of his work and offers private insights into a man who once said why be exotic in private?

Hardcover. St. Augustine FL, E.H. Reynolds, 5th Ed., 1893, Hardcover, Original tan decorative boards, maroon cloth spine. 161 pages, Index. B&w photos, maps. Gilt spine title. Previous owners bookplate on front flyleaf. Gilt title on spine. Mild wear to cover edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Softcover. Charleston SC, Arcadia Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Depicts the oldest city in the United States from the beginning of the picture postcard era to 1914, when a fire destroyed several downtown blocks. The volume presents more than 200 images from the archives of the St. Augustine Historical Society and the author's personal collection. Related street map laid-in. Clean copy.

New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 64 pages, b & w illustrations by Ted Lewin, clean, tight copy, tear and slight wear to edges of dust jacket.