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Published by the International P.E.N. Club Centre for Writers in Exile, 1954. Octavo, burgundy cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 227 pp. Fine. From Foreword: This is, by any standards, a unique book. Between its covers there are stories, poems and essays by writers of fourteen nationalities -- a miniature United Nations where political differences and national controversies have been forgotten in the common cause. It is a book that was not edited but grew organically from the need to present the work of exiled writers to the Western world...

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1919. Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), tissue-protected frontis., uncut, 233 pp. Very Good, with lightly rubbed & soiled covers.

Strobe Talbott, (2002). First Edition, stated. Octavo, black boards (hardcover), x, 478 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: During the past ten years, few issues have mattered more to America’s vital interests or to the shape of the twenty-first century than Russia’s fate. To cheer the fall of a bankrupt totalitarian regime is one thing; to build on its ruins a stable democratic state is quite another. The challenge of helping to steer post-Soviet Russia -- with its thousands of nuclear weapons and seething ethnic tensions -- between the Scylla of a communist restoration and the Charybdis of anarchy fell to the former governor of a poor, landlocked Southern state who had won national election by focusing on domestic issues. No one could have predicted that by the end of Bill Clinton’s second term he would meet with his Kremlin counterparts more often than had all of his predecessors from Harry Truman to George Bush combines, or that his presidency and his legacy would be so… Read More

Bardstown, KY: J. Dan Talbott, n.d. Oblong octavo, paperbound (stiff, stapled wrappers), 32 pp. Near-Fine.

First National Bank of Florida, n.d. [ca. 1983]. Quarto, navy blue cloth (hardcover), silver letters, numerous black & white photos., 40 pp. Fine.

Lake City, Florida: June 30, 1904. Octavo, paperbound (stiff, green, stapled wrappers), 22 pp. Very Good, with former-owner’s embossed stamp, tanning to the edges, and light edgewear.

[Tampa]: First National Bank of Florida, 1983. Quarto, stiff silver wrappers, stapled, 40 pp. Photographs. Fine.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., (1936). Octavo, khaki cloth (hardcover), 332 pp. Good+, with darkened spine and light soiling to covers. Illustrated. Contents: Amende Honorable; Foreword; Introductory; The Colonial, 1630 - 1800; The Post Colonial, 1790 - 1820; The Greek Revival, 1820 - 1860; Spanish and Creole Architecture; The Parvenu PEriod, 1860 - 1880; The Romanesque Revival, 1876 - 1893; The World’s Fair, 1893; Louis Sullivan, Parent and Prophet; Eclecticism, 1893 - 1917; Today and Tomorrow, Index.

Arcadia, FL: Edith Myer Tamblyn, 1939. Octavo, paperbound (stapled, stiff printed wrappers), 32 pp. Fine.

St. Petersburg, Fla.: Tampa Bay Regional Planning Coucil, 1970. Quarto, cloth, typewritten, [193] leaves. Near-Fine.

Tampa: Tampa Historical Society, 1994. One of 100 hardbound copies. This copy is signed by the editor and the wife and two sons on Tony Pizzo, who is memorialized in this issue. Quarto, gilt-stamped cloth, 96 pp. Photos, illus. Fine in dust jacket.

Tampa Florida: Gunn Printing, by the Tampa Historical Society, 2003. Quarto, white photo. illu. wrappers, 174 pp. Fine. Contents: Presidents Report; A Damnable Outrage: The Sale of the Tampa Bay Hotel, Josephine S. King; Letters from Okeechobee: 1880s Editorial of Gabriel Cunning to Bartow Informant and Tampa Sunland Tribute, Michael Reneer and Dr. James M. Denham; Moving toward the Picture Palace; The Tampa Theatre Comes to Town, Dr. Janna Jones; Negroes are there to stay: Development of Tampa’s African-American Community, 1891 - 1916, Dr. Canter Brown, Jr. and Dr. Larry E. Rivers; In Search of David Paul Davis: A Biographical Study of Florida’s Premier Real Estate Promoter, Rodney Kite-Powell; Continually in Apprehension: Tampa Bay in Early 1836, Pamela N. Gibson and Dr. Joe Knetsch; German Prison Camps in Dade City, Florida, Dr. Charles W. Arnade; Tampa’s Own Sea Wolf: Hudson Gene Holloway, Andrew T. Huse; The Henry B. Plant Museum Opens its Archives to Reveal Rare Photographs of… Read More

University of North Florida / St. Augustine Historical Society, (1989). Reprint of the 1963 edition with added material. Octavo, softbound, xxix, 253 pp. Fine.

Jacksonville: University of North Florida Press, (1989). Octavo, softbound (slick, full-color illus. wrappers), xxix + 253 pp. Near-Fine. From lower cover: As East Florida’s first governor during the Second Spanish Period, Vincente Manual Zespedes y Valasco had to reshape colonial institutions to fit the Spanish mold and to redefine the relationship of his colony to the new United States, the French and English, and the Indians. At the same time he had to cope with myriad internal problems. i this informative and entertaining biographical history, Tanner skillfully interweaves historical narrative with intimate personal details of life in eighteenth-century St. Augustine.

Coral Gables: Universityof Miami Press, 1963. First edition. Octavo, softbound, ix, 253 pp. Fine.

New York: International Publishers, (1992). First Edition. Octavo, softbound, ix, 120 pp. Photographs. Fine.

Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1960. First Edition. Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), silver letters, xiv + 200 pp. Neat former-owner inscription and former-owner stamps; otherwise, Fine; in a Very Good+ dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: The Check List of Plant and Soil Nematodes -- A Nomenclatorial Compilation...presents to the plant and soil nematologist an unbiased catalogue of published nomenclatorial information in which he will find the species, subspecies, and infrasubspecies forms classified by accepted names and in accordance with the author’s interpretations of the International Rules of Zoological Nomenclature.

Cambridge at the University Press, 1965. History Cam 354. Duodecimo, softbound (stiff red illus. wrappers), xiim 167 pp. Near Fine. From lower cover: this book covers the period of unrest and civil war that broke out in Rome after the murder of Julius Caesar and continued until the final defeat and death of Antony 14 years later. The chapters were written jointly by M. P. Charlesworth, one of the original editors of the Cambridge Ancient History, who was responsible for the sections on Italy and the West and Sir William Tarn who dealt with the East. The authors have kept a judicious balance between the two sides in their narrative of events from Antony’s assumption of power, the establishing of the Second Triumvirate, the proscriptions, and the defeat of Brutus at Philippi, and continue up to Octavian’s final triumph over Antony at Actium. Charlesworth’s study of Octavian and Tarn’s assessment of Antony’s career are of particular interest and importance. There is also Tarn’s fresh… Read More

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature, Rawlings Society, 1997. Octavo, paperbound (stiff, white, illus. wrappers), 123 pp. Fine. Contents: Rawlings Centenary Address (Connie May Fowler); The Golden Anniversary of Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s The Everglades: River of Grass (Michael P. Branch); How Marjory Stoneman Douglas Crusaded for South Florida in Her Short Works (Kevin M. McCarthy); Our Lady of the Glades: Marjorie Stoneman Douglas and The Everglades: River of Grass (Michael P. Branch); Freedom River: A Book for the Next Millennium (Melissa Walker); Marjory Stoneman Douglas and an Antidote to Despair (Betsy S. Hilbert); Marjory Stoneman Douglas Bibliography (Rosalie E. Leposky); Martin Ritt’s Portrait of an Artist: Cross Creek (Gabriel Miller); Food and Fulfillment in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ Gal Youn Un (Amanda Yurick); a Female Thoreau in Florida (Hiroshi Tsunemoto); Another Fishing Story (william J. Schlicht, Jr.); Lilian on Sanibel (Ronald Weber); Contributors.

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. Octavo, charcoal gray cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 283 pp. Near-Fine.