[Fort Lauderdale, Fl.]: 1943. 77pp. Original green pebbled cloth, gilt titles on front cover. Minor spotting to boards. Ownership signatures on pastedowns, occasional minor thumb-soiling to text. An uncommon work of the nature of the Christian religion by a noted African-American preacher from Florida. In his Preface, Dr. Thomas decries..... More
Miami: February 11, 1941. Blueprint plan, 22 x 23 inches, printed in white on a quarter-inch to one foot scale with architect's embossed seal at lower right. Minor edge wear, mild surface wear, old soft creases. Original blueprint plan for a shotgun house, a narrow single-family gable-front home in which..... More
Palatka, Fl. 1947. [5]pp., typed on folio sheets, stapled. Old folds, minor wear and creasing, light dust-soiling. An unsigned petition from the Hattie Q. Brown Club, asking "The Honourable City Commission of the City of Palatka, Florida...to recognise its status as the 'Hattie Q Brown Club which the Commission gave..... More
[Way Key, Fl. 1865]. Partially-printed muster roll completed in manuscript, approximately 21 x 31 inches. Old folds, some separations at crossfolds (as usual), minor wear and soiling. A rare muster roll recording details of the service of an African-American infantry company while stationed in Florida during the final year of..... More
[Various locations in Florida]: 1901. [16] leaves, illustrated with thirty-two original vernacular photographs, all 3.5 x 3.5 inches, most with manuscript captions in ink above the images. Oblong octavo. Contemporary gray paper wrappers, white titles on front cover. Spine mostly split, a few shallow chips to edges. Internally clean. A..... More
Apalachicola, Fl. April 8 and June 21, 1840. [1],[1]pp., the first with an integral blank addressed in manuscript and with Apalachicola postal stamp. Original folds, minor toning and soiling. A pair of letters written by George Winslow while working in Florida during the latter years of the Second Seminole War..... More
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[Various locations including Florida, Missouri, and South Dakota]: 1925. Forty-five leaves, encompassing approximately fifty pages of manuscript narrative written in white ink, interspersed with 108 photographs and a handful of ephemeral items. Oblong octavo. Contemporary red cloth photograph album, black letters on front cover, string tied. Minor edge wear. A...... More
Gainesville, Fl. Daily Advocate Job Print, ca. 1884-1890]. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Mild soiling, minor toning, old folds. A seemingly unrecorded real estate promotional leaflet issued by Louis A. Barnes and Watson Porter, local land attorneys working in and around Gainesville, Florida. The pair is seeking prospective purchasers..... More
Los Angeles: Free Tract Society, [ca. 1935]. 112pp., plus sixteen pages of illustrations. Original orange printed wrappers. Moderate scuffing and staining to covers. Minor occasional foxing, even toning to text. A normally-uninteresting imprint, being a simple pocket-sized printing of the Gospel of John intended to be given away, but the..... More
[Various locations: 1974-1979]. Several dozen documents, letters, pamphlets, and assorted ephemera, constituting about half a linear foot of material. Some folds and creasing, moderate wear. An informative archive of materials documenting the brief Army career of Catherine Pope Burroughs Bentle, an Army brat who spent her late teen years and..... More