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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
The Rogue Republic How Would-Be Patriots Waged the Shortest Revolution in American History
by Davis, William C
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2011. First Printing. Hardcover. 0151009252 . Book is clean and tight. Corners and ends of spine are bumped and shelf worn. The founding of the Republic of West Florida, which lasted 78 days. ; 9.10 X 5.90 X 1.50 inches; 400 pages .
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CA$27.73
GCN - Gay Community News: the gay weekly; vol. 5, #21, Nov. 26, 1977: Eve & The Club
by Miller, Neil, editor, Tommi Avicolli, John Mitzel, Anita Bryant, Eve Merriam, Al Bouchard, Anthony Domenick, et al
Boston: Gay Community News, 1977. Newspaper. 20p., folded tabloid newspaper, columns, features, reports, resources, events, entertainment, ads, lightly-toned, else very good on newsprint. Also: Anita's (Bryant) contract renewed, Bouchard's achievment?Centerspread on Eve Merriam's play "The Club" with four photos.
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CA$34.66
GCN: Gay Community News; the gay weekly; vol. 6, #9, Sept. 23, 1978: Youth Programs
by Burns, Richard, Eric Rofes, & Jim Marko, editors, Anita Bryant, Gore Vidal, Neil Miller, et al
Boston: GCN, 1978. Newspaper. 20p., folded tabloid newspaper on newsprint, news, opinion, articles, events, ads, photos, services and resources, toning and light wear. Boston's LGBTQ newspaper which started in 1973. More political than entertainment. Also: Briggs Worker Pleads Guilty. San Francisco attorneys file closing brief in $5m suit against Anita Bryant. Gore Vidal's ripping good rip of Anita Bryant.
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GCN: Gay Community News; the gay weekly; vol. 6, #8, Sept. 16, 1978: Bryant Cancels Boston Rallies
by Burns, Richard, Eric Rofes, & Jim Marko, editors, Anita Bryant, Adrienne Rich, John Graczak, David Brill, Barbara Ackermann, et al
Boston: GCN, 1978. Newspaper. 16p., folded tabloid newspaper on newsprint, news, opinion, articles, events, ads, photos, services and resources, toning and light wear. Boston's LGBTQ newspaper which started in 1973. More political than entertainment. Also: Break-in at GCN. Poetry of Adrienne Rich.
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CA$27.73
Centre St. Fernandina Historic District
by None Stated
Amelia Island Fernandina Restoration Foundation, Inc, 1976-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Minor shelf wear, front cover ha writing, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. 31 pages, black and white illustrations of architectural highlights of Centre St.
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CA$23.53
Badpuppy: we're young, hung & bad; #18: a special edition of Allboy
by Willden, Nye, editor
Miami: Color Ink Corp, 2006. Magazine. 80p., 8x10.75 inches, explicit color nude photos of skinny young men, very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps.
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CA$20.79
GPU News vol. 6, #10, July 1977; Hate
by Gay People's Union, Lee C. Rice, Donna Martin, Anita Bryant, Roger Austen, David Loovis, Andrea McCann, Richard McCann, Jane Wallace, Sebastiane, et al
Milwaukee: Gay People's Union/Liberation Pub, 1977. Magazine. 52p. including covers, 8.5x11 inches, articles, news, reviews, events, services & resources, photos, poetry, ads, very good magazine format newsletter in stapled pictorial wraps. Making War With the Dragon by Rice on hatred and homophobia. Playing the Game by Austen. Straight Answers About Homosexuality by Loovis. Reaction to Gay Loss in Miami. Chicago Holds Anti-Anita Rally. Masturbation/a Women's Handbook. The Gay People's Academic Union...
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More Than Black. Afro-Cubans in Tampa
by Greenbaum, Susan D
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. Hardcover. xv, 384p., illustrated with period photography, hardbound in first edition flecked white boards with a blood-orange cloth backstrip, and enclosed in the dust jacket. A Library of Congress Duplicate with its rubberstamp carelessly applied to the titlepage; evidently donated to LC by Alan Lomax whose blind-stamp is found on an early blank. A very presentable copy: perfectly sound and clean, and otherwise unmarked. New World Diasporas [the first,...
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CA$23.57
Big Sugar : Seasons in the Canefields of Florida
by Alec Wilkinson
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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CA$8.48
![[Archive of Family Papers Involving John Bozeman, a Captain in Company C of the 29th Georgia Infantry, His Sister, Sarah A. Bozeman, and Various Cousins and Associates]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/597/935/1531935597.0.b.jpg)
[Archive of Family Papers Involving John Bozeman, a Captain in Company C of the 29th Georgia Infantry, His Sister, Sarah A. Bozeman, and Various Cousins and Associates]
by [Civil War]. [Georgia]. [Bozeman Family]. [Lewis Family]
[Various locations, mostly in Georgia and Florida, 1876. Very good.. Sixty manuscript letters and documents, totaling approximately 110pp., plus a handful of drawings and a manuscript architectural sketch. Some wear and occasional chipping and minor losses to letters. Occasional minor repairs. An eclectic and wide-ranging archive containing unique reportage of antebellum Georgia, as well as events during and after the Civil War, in the form of numerous letters and documents written to and among several...
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CA$4,505.48
Naples : 1940s To 1970s
by Lynne Howard Frazer
Arcadia Publishing, 2006. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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CA$9.61
They all called it tropical: True tales of the romantic Everglades, Cape Sable, and the Florida Keys
by Brookfield, Charles M
Historical Association of Southern Florida, 1985. 9th. paperback. Very Good. 8x5x0. Minor shelf wear, rear cover has a sticker remnant, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. "This volume highlights the human history of the Everglades National Park and and the adjacent Florida Keys. It reveals little-known facts of the drama enacted about Cape Sable and other sections of the stranger than fiction land" - John D. Pennekamp
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CA$23.57
Gayzette Magazine: vol. 1, #2, Sept. 1975: Paul, Mr. September
by Anthony, Joseph P., editor, Peter Thomas, Abel Rose, Ray Phillips, Cadillac Studios, et al
Orlando, FL: Coast to Coast Pub, 1975. Magazine. 44p., 5.5x8.5 inches, news, listings, ads, events, photos, personals, very good digest size magazine in stapled pink pictorial wraps. Florida entertainment and personals magazine for gays.
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CA$103.97
The Saint in Miami
by Charteris, Leslie
Curtis, 1967-01-01. Paperback. Good. Saint (Simon Templar) Adventure Series 22 Paperback - Binding OK, reading creases spine, light edge wear, no marks, no stickers, browning inside - 6.9 x 4.2 x .625 inches
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CA$15.18
Communist and perverts under the palms, the Johns Committee in Florida, 1956-1965
by Braukman, Stacy
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013. Paperback. xiii, 250p., very good condition.
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CA$27.73
From the Rocks to the Roots
by Cozzi, Santina (Text) and Vignati, Francesco (Photographs)
Milano, Italy: Agrimont. 1989. Oblong Quarto Size. Near Fine copy in Very Good (clear plastic) dustjacket. Illustrated with full page colour Photographs. Housed in paper covered box. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 143 pages. A look at the Agrimont/Conserv in Florida [producers of the fertilizer, Diammonium Phosphate] companies from within. A lavish pictorial tribute notable for its exploration and explanation of the environment around the business in Florida....
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Ripening Fruit
by Andrews, T. Coleman
Lake Wales, FL: GEORGE, 1961. Pamphlet. 22p. staplebound pamphlet, minor soil to rear cover, otherwise very good. Warning about looming Communism, by the former States' Rights Party candidate. In 1953 Andrews had become the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, only to quit in 1955 because of his opposition to the income tax.
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CA$41.59
A History of the Pioneers
by John Viele
Pineapple Press, Incorporated, 1996. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. The dust jacket is missing. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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CA$8.89
Badpuppy: we're young, hung & bad; #12: a special edition of Allboy
by Willden, Nye, editor, William Higgins, Frank Decatur et al
Miami: Color Ink Corp, 2004. Magazine. 80p., 8x10.75 inches, explicit color nude photos of skinny young men, very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps.
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CA$20.79
![GALA, Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses is proud to present Festival 5 [souvenir program] July 6-14, 1996, Tampa, Florida, GALA Choruses hosted by Crescendo, the Tampa Bay Womyn's Chorus & The Tampa Bay Gay Men's Chorus](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/115/676/1483676115.0.b.jpg)
GALA, Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses is proud to present Festival 5 [souvenir program] July 6-14, 1996, Tampa, Florida, GALA Choruses hosted by Crescendo, the Tampa Bay Womyn's Chorus & The Tampa Bay Gay Men's Chorus
Washington DC: GALA, 1996. Paperback. 182p., 8.5x11 inches, photos, event program schedule, biographies, ads, very good oversize trade paperback souvenir book & program in pictorial wraps with scuffed cover.
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CA$48.52
Homenaje a Don Jose Maria de la Pena y Camara
by Bordonau y Mas, Miguel [and] Irving A. Leonard [et alia], contributors
Madrid: Ediciones Jose Porrua Turanzas, 1969. Hardcover. xi, 287p., illustrated solely with a photoportrait of the honoree, a custom-bound item measuring 10x7 inches, plainly publisher-issued first in soft binding but here cased into open-weave blue cloth boards with spine-titling gilt on a green leather panel. Nice job, but we could wish the binder had not discarded the original wraps, and also that he had not tried to tint the top edge of textblock a bright red, or at least knew how to apply the...
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CA$55.45
Sarasota - Roaring Through the 20's
by Jeff Lahurd
Peppertree Press. paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Jeff LaHurd's new book is a look at Sarasota during the Roaring Twenties, when the community came into its own as a desirable destination for throngs of newcomers of every stripe:snowbirds, speculators, builders and developers. Vintage photographs grace the pages of this wonderful historical account of the 20s in Sarasota, Florida.
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CA$55.41
![STATE OF FLORIDA, COUNTY OF GADSDEN, KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT WE, JOHN W. JONES & W.J. LAURENCE, ARE HELD AND FIRMLY BOUND UNTO R.R. HAYGOOD & S.M. FLEISHMANN, IN THE SUM OF SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS, FOR THE PAYMENT WHEREOF, WELL AND TRULY TO BE MADE, WE BIND OURSELVES. . . THIS 29TH DAY OF JANUARY [1858] . . . THE CONDITION OF THIS OBLIGATION IS SUCH, THAT WHEREAS THE SHERIFF IN AND FOR SAID COUNTO [sic], BY VIRTUE OF 2 EXECUTIONS ISSUED FROM THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE COUNTY OF GADSDEN, IN FAVOR OF R.R. HAYGOOD & S.M. FLEISHMANN AGAINST JOHN W. JONES HAS LEVIED UPON THE FOLLOWING PROPERTY, TO-WIT: A NEGRO MAN NAMED TOM ABOUT 45 OR 50 YEARS OF AGE. . . AND THE SAID J.W. JONES WISHING TO REPLEVY THE SAME: NOW IF THE SAID J.W. JONES SHALL HAVE THE SAID PROPERTY FORTHCOMING AT QUINCY, IN SAID COUNTY, ON THE 1ST DAY OF MARCH A.D. 1858, AND DELIVER THE SAME TO THE SHERIFF OF SAID COUNTY, THEN THIS OBLIGATION TO BE VOID...;](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/056/219/1323219056.0.m.jpg)
![The Southern Sugar Company [Photograph Album]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/945/815/1385815945.0.m.jpg)
