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5 1/2 x 8 3/4", 75pp. + appendix + index, illustrated with 217 reduced size repros. of early black & white photos, & a few other in-text illustrations (map), of people & places mentioned, boats, fishing & hunting catches: tarpon, shark, sawfish, turkey & other natural history photos: alligators, whale shark, etc. Flexible, maroon fabricoid cloth covers, with gilt titles on spine & front cover; lilac colored endpapers (front flyleaf has former owner's inked name: B. J. Outman). Yellow, black & white photo-illustrated dustjacket. Book shows these age-related defects: Spine is cocked & shows very slight wear, cover fore-edges show slight curling; spine ends of dj. show chipping, as does top edges of the dj. panels, front dj. inner flap is detached, but present in a dj. protector; p. 50 shows penciled lines around a paragraph regarding La Costa Island & Captain Peter Nelson, with this exception, interior text & illustrations are clean, a fairly well-preserved copy of a scarce & rather fragile type of book. Some places mentioned in this self-published book: Boca Grande, Captiva, Charlotte Harbor, Cocoanut Grove, Englewood, Fort Myers, Key West, Kissimmee, Long Key, Myakka, Pine Island, Punta Gorda, Punta Rassa, Sanibel, Shark River, Tampa, Ybor City, among others. [Author's 1954 foreword]: "In this 1954 reprinting, a few explanatory items have been added in an appendix at the end of the book. These are indicated by stars in the text. With a few exceptions all the photographs were taken by either my father or myself. It is not a history as such but is historical inasmuch as the illustrations are authentic pictures of people and places at the turn of the Century. Many books have been written of the acquiring and settling of Florida, its inhabitants at that time, and the hunting and fishing to be found there. This chronicle is a personal description of the life my family experienced in the southwestern part of the state during the years between 1887 and 1910, and as one man recently expressed it, might have been entitled 'Florida's Vanished Era.' ". Seller Inventory # fl-202325
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