Sun Hunting: Adventures and Observations Among the Native and Migratory Tribes of Florida, Including the Stoical Time-Killers of Palm Beach, the Gentle and Gregarious Tin-Canners of the Remote Interior, and the Vivacious and Semi-Violent Peoples of Miami and Its Purlieus [SIGNED AND INSCRIBED]
Published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1922
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.Babylon Revisited Rare Books
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First Edition. Octavo, original dark blue-green cloth over boards, red-orange dust jacket with black lettering and illustration, black and white plate frontispiece, black and white plates throughout, humorous inscription by author at front facing endpaper dated 1926. Humorous essays about Florida, to promote the Florida land boom of the 1920s. Very Good, a couple stains to cloth and fading to lettering at front cover, spine ends and a corner bumped and rubbed, some foxing to endpapers, in Good dust jacket, split along front spine edge, some edge chipping including an inch off bottom spine end, large dampstain at lower rear panel, dampstain to front panel, darkening to front panel and spine.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Sun Hunting: Adventures and Observations Among the Native and Migratory Tribes of Florida, Including the Stoical Time-Killers of Palm Beach, the Gentle and Gregarious Tin-Canners of the Remote Interior, and the Vivacious and Semi-Violent Peoples of Miami and Its Purlieus [SIGNED AND INSCRIBED]
- Author
- ROBERTS, Kenneth L.
- Publisher
- The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis
- Publication year
- 1922
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
Babylon Revisited Rare Books
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