Daytona south to the Palm Beaches
Buffalo, New York: Matthews-Northrup Company, c1911. Stapled wraps. Background Information:In 1912 Henry Flagler arrived aboard the first train into Key West, marking the completion of the Florida East Coast (FEC) Railway's Over-Sea Railroad to Key West. With the completion of the Over-Sea Railroad the entire east coast of Florida, from.....
![Item #013634 [Florida History, St. Augustine] Bloomfield's Illustrated Historical Guide,...](/pictures/thumb/013634.jpg?v=1647449217)
St. Augustine: F. A. Stokes, 1884. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. ....... To Which is Added a Condensed Guide of the St. John's, Ocklawaha, Halifax, and Indian Rivers, Distance Tables to Points on the above-mentioned Rivers, and Principal Cities North, East, and West.
![Item #013836 [Florida] The Jug-Eared Kid. John Carter](/pictures/thumb/013836.jpg?v=1647123718)
Daytona Beach, FLorida: The New-Journal, 2001. A Fine Soft cover. A delightful collection of newspaper columns by the late John Carter, who amused Daytona Beach readers with tales of his boyhood in Jacksonville and the Old Florida characters and folkways that he cherished. Carter worked at the Daytona Beach News-Journal.....
![Item #16035 [Travel Brochure] The Palmetto House [Hotel], Daytona, Florida. C. O. Chamberlin,...](/pictures/thumb/16035.jpg?v=1661357542)
Datona, Florida, c1905. Stapled Wraps. Early promotional brochure for Daytona's Palmetto Hotel, touted as having "a most desirable location on the river side of the city, facing the Halifax, which at this point is nearly a mile in width. It is a pleasant house with large parlors, comfortable chambers and.....
New York: Macmillan Pub Co, 1986. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Traces the life of the successful businessman who co-founded Standard Oil, started the Florida East Coast Railway, and led the development of Miami, Palm Beach, and Key West.
![Item #013911 [Floridiana] Daytona, Florida c1915 photo book. Compliments of R. L. Smith, Co](/pictures/thumb/013911.jpg?v=1647957550)
Florida: [Unstated Publisher], 1915. Soft cover. A collection of photographs of Daytona, Daytona Beach, and the surrounding area with an emphasis on scenery.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1889. Illustrated by Louis K. Harlow. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. An early travel account in Northern Florida through St. Augustine and along the St. Johns River in the 1880s. The authors vivid reminiscences of the scenery, natural history, and the local.....
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1889. Illustrated by Louis K. Harlow. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. An early travel account in Northern Florida through St. Augustine and along the St. Johns River in the 1880s. The authors vivid reminiscences of the scenery, natural history, and the local.....
![Item #015092 [Florida History] Frederick DeBary ... The Man and His Mansion. Ruth Ericksen](/pictures/thumb/015092.jpg?v=1647960666)
Sanford, Fla.: , 1965: Celery City Print. Co., 1965. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Softcover. Built in 1871 by Samuel Frederick DeBary, prominent wine importer, businessman and sportsman from New York City, the Hall is an Italian styled architectural mansion with an extensive two-story veranda.
Florida: The Old Daytona Civic Association, 1995. Soft cover.
St. Augustine, FL, Florida East Coast Railway, [1946]. Stapled Illustrated wraps. The Florida East Coast Railway was Henry Flagler’s dream, when completed it stretched all the way to Key West and was a link to his hotel chain and was primarily responsible for the early growth of Florida.This well-written booklet.....
Jacksonville, Florida: Arnold Printing Company, c1915. First Edition. Stapled wraps. Scarce brochure of an iconic hotel in St. Augustine, Florida. The owner, Mr. H. Muller seems to have formerly been chef of the Alcazar, St. Augustine, and Oriental Hotel, Manhattan Beach, New York, his successes at those fine establishments providing.....
Jacksonville: St. Augustine and Indian River Railway Company, 1892. String-tied Wraps. A lovely promotional souvenir keepsake. Historic photos and accompanying text describe Florida at the beginning of development.This promotional book was produced for 4-5 years each issue with a different format.
Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Granted special access to the team's archives and personal interviews with players, management, and staff, Rody Johnson offers a fascinating and remarkable history of the sometimes-rocky relationship between the city and the.....
Tallahassee, Florida: Father and Sons Publishing, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Cold Before Morning is a simple yet powerful novel of a Scottish family's emotional and heart-warming romance and daily conflict with pioneer Florida between 1854 and 1913.The James McCredies arrived in Micanopy.....
New York: Hyperion, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. For a hundred years Palm Beach has been a fantasy land nurtured by, and maintained for, the megawealthy. In the end, Leamer’s tale of money, murder and mad pretension reveals a darker strain. Uncovering that.....
[Florida]: [Storyland, Florida], [c1960]. Stapled Wraps. This is an unrecorded children’s story from Storyland Park of Pompano Beach, Florida telling the story of the Gingerbread Boy.The 11-acre park Storyland, a fairy tale themed kiddie-land was once home to some of the biggest names in nursery rhymes. Storyland opened in 1955.....
![Item #013839 [Anti-Catholic; Travel, Florida] Sketches of St. Augustine With a View of its...](/pictures/thumb/013839.jpg?v=1647609573)
Philadelphia: Martin E. Harmstead, 1849. 2nd Edition. A Good Hardcover. This 2nd Edition contains a 'Supplementary chapter', p. 70-100, which is an account of the suppression of the 1st edition, the attack upon the author, and his defense. This copy contains the section on Minorcan population usually excised in from.....
Charlotte Harbor, Florida: Tabby House Books, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. The city is in the northern suburbs of the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford Metropolitan Statistical Area. founded by Thomas C. Simpson and four other Massachusetts businessmen, gave the area its present name: Altamonte Springs.
New York: Rizzoli, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. In the tradition of Addison Mizner, Maurice Fatio, John Volk, and Howard Major the early architects of Palm Beach's great estates and public buildings of the Gilded Age the architecture of Jeffery W. Smith.....