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Rotary Club, 1976. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Bottom board bumped. Light edgewear to jacket. Inscribed by the author..

Tallahassee, Florida: The Rotary Clubs of Tallahassee, 1976. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good +. VG+/VG/Signed. This is the bicentenial edition from 1976. Florida apparently got started 50 years later than the rest of the country, but surprisingly, alot of the relatives of the founding fathers found their way down to beautiful Florida. Signed and inscribed on front free endpaper to long time friends of the author. Book is clean and tight, white pages with no tanning or dark spots. Dust Jacket is clean and has no nicks or tears and has been covered with a mylar sleeve. 144 pages, loads of b&w photos, acknowledgements, notes, bibliography and index. A very attractive copy--and I can pop it in the mail to you tomorrow.

Tallahassee, FL: the Rotary Clubs of Tallahassee, [1976]. Signed and Inscribed by Author. Octavo, red leatherette, (hardcover), gilt letters, ii, 144 pp. Near-Fine, with small former-owner signature, in a Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. “American independence arrived half a century late to Florida. But the blood of founding patriots ran strong in the veins of pioneers who moved into the new territory when it opened up just as our nation approached its 50th anniversary. Thomas Jefferson’s grandson was Tallahassee’s first reform mayor. Alexander Hamilton, Jr., ran for delegate to Congress in territorial Florida’s first full-term election, but lost. A grandson of Patrick Henry is buried at Quincy. George Washington’s great-grandniece came and married Napoleon Bonaparte’s nephew in the Florida capital’s eighth wedding. The name of Tallahassee is said to have been chosen for the new Florida capital by the grand-niece of a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Her father,… Read More