Jesse Walter Dees Jr (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 78 Pages.

Octavo, softbound (slick, full-color illus. blue wrappers), 201 pp. Very Good+, with light edgewear. Contents include: Is Cedar Key the Oldest City in the United States?; Earliest Inhabitants; Early Settlement of Cedar Key, (1843-1861); David Levy Yulee and the Florida Railroad Company, (1846-1872); Civil War (1861-1864); Reconstruction (1865-1876); Timber Boom and Bust Cycle (1877-1890); Dr. Dan Andrews and The Standard Manufacturing Company (1910-1952); During the Great United States Depression and World War II Boom (1929-1946); Bessie Gibbs and the Historic Island Hotel (1949-1963); Historic Houses; Off the Beaten Path; The Future of Cedar Key: From Quiet Fishing Village into a Booming Tourist Industry; Hurricanes; Cedar Key Profiles: Brooks Campbell; Ol'Cush; Mike Davis; Charles C. Fishburne, Jr.; Mayor, J. Quitman Hodges; Dr. Andrew Elton Hodges; Sidney Padgett, Sr.; Polly Pillsbury; Carlos Sloan; Ruth Wagner; Col. George Walton; St. Clair Whitman; Bibliography; Index. Florida, Floridiana, Florida History, Cedar Key, Americana, American History, U.S. History. nslic. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Gold stamping on front cover and spine. Title page not dated. Copyright page dated 1990. 201 pages. In very good condition. Covers are clean and unmarked. A bit of bumping at head and foot of spine. Sharp, tight corners. Gutter is cracked between title and copyright pages. Binding otherwise is strong and secure. Sheet music for "Olde Cedar Key" tucked inside. Pages free of marks or tears. A very good, clean copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. (Homelessness) FLOPHOUSE / An Authentic Undercover Study of 'Flophouses,' 'Cage Hotels,' Including Missions, Shelters, and Institutions Serving Unattahed (Homeless) Man. ByJesse Walter Dees Jr. First edition, and this copy SIGNED by the Author on the front endpaper; Marshall Jones Co., 1948. 8vo size book, black clth spine w/blue clth boards & gold titles, a little lite wear to the binding including dullness to gold spine titles, still a most reasonable sound copy. (Photo shows spine as red clth but this is in error). 170-pages of text plus full-page photo illustrations, fine throughout. I'm open to offers on any item priced at $20 or more. Signed by Author(s).…

Condition: Near Fine. Daytona Beach, FL: Bethune-Cookman College, 1953. First Edition, from a print run of 10,000 copies. 12mo; 78pp. Frontis portrait of Bethune. Red boards stamped in gilt. Mild rubbing to extremities; binding sound; pages unmarked. A Near Fine pocket-sized history of what is now called Bethune-Cookman University and dedicated to "the original '5 little girls' and to the future of all youth in America.".…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. SIGNED by Jesse Walter Dees, Jr. on the front endpaper. About fine, but for a crease on the rear board, in a good dj. (Fairly large chip at lower righthand corner of rear panel of dj. A few other much smaller chips. Single long tear running diagonally across rear panel of dj.) Details hard times of the Depression era.; Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st ed. frontis (portrait), 78p. Original maroon cloth. 12cm. Minor cover wear. No jacket. Signed on front pastedown ("1957 Richard V. Moore"). Richard Vernon Moore, 1906-1994, was Bethune-Cookman College's third President (1947-1975). This little book contains a brief biography of Ms. Bethune and a history of the founding of the college.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Octavo. 170pp. A couple light splash marks to the preliminaries and gilt a touch dulled, near fine in about very good price-clipped dust jacket slightly sunned on the spine, rubbed throughout and moderate edgewear, including nicks, tears and creases. Signed by the author. From the title page: "A sociological study that includes English origins of mass relief - samples of American mass relief and a modern investigation of public and private policies in Chicago.". Signed.…