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Florida: Land of Images. With Drawings by Bob Lamme.

1972réf. 2vot330Miami Florida: E. A. Seemann Publishing Inc. 1972. Octavo brown cloth hardcover gilt letters 189 pp. Fine in a Fair just jacket that has been reinforced with cello tape. From dust jacket: From Jacksonville to St. Augustine from Key West to Cross Creek roving Miami Herald reporter Nixon Smiley is familiar with every highway and hidden back road and with the places and personalities that have played their part in the colorful history of Florida his native state. Not a travel guide in the conventional sense this book is rather a theoretical trip around the Florida peninsula conducted by a student of history and human nature. Through personal interviews and his first-hand research Nixon Smiley has added a new dimension to the lives of such matchless characters as Henry Flagler; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Thomas Edison; Sadie McLain the Ox-Woman; architect Addison Mizner and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The fiery Minorcans Mrs. Fuller’s water hyacinths Fort San Marcos the Celestial Railroad the “Millionaires’ Club” at Boca Raton the Singing Tower and Sexton’s “junk mountain” -- all belong to the heritage of this unique and fascinating state. They come to life as never before when described by the author in the intimate informal style that has made him a favorite of newspaper readers for so many years. Says Mr. Smiley: “The eighteen titles in this volume are built around real places and real people together with my impressions after nearly a quarter-century of traveling about the state. If I have written with enthusiasm it is because I have enjoyed my experiences in seeking out the interesting and picturesque and writing about them for newspaper readers. I sought to take them to the scenes and share with them what I saw and felt. This book I have written with the same feeling. E. A. Seemann Publishing, Inc., (1972). hardcover books

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Florida: Land of Images. With Drawings by Bob Lamme.

1972réf. vot330Miami Florida: E. A. Seemann Publishing Inc. 1972. Octavo brown cloth hardcover gilt letters 189 pp. Fine in a Near Fine mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: From Jacksonville to St. Augustine from Key West to Cross Creek roving Miami Herald reporter Nixon Smiley is familiar with every highway and hidden back road and with the places and personalities that have played their part in the colorful history of Florida his native state. Not a travel guide in the conventional sense this book is rather a theoretical trip around the Florida peninsula conducted by a student of history and human nature. Through personal interviews and his first-hand research Nixon Smiley has added a new dimension to the lives of such matchless characters as Henry Flagler; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Thomas Edison; Sadie McLain the Ox-Woman; architect Addison Mizner and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The fiery Minorcans Mrs. Fuller’s water hyacinths Fort San Marcos the Celestial Railroad the “Millionaires’ Club” at Boca Raton the Singing Tower and Sexton’s “junk mountain” -- all belong to the heritage of this unique and fascinating state. They come to life as never before when described by the author in the intimate informal style that has made him a favorite of newspaper readers for so many years. Says Mr. Smiley: “The eighteen titles in this volume are built around real places and real people together with my impressions after nearly a quarter-century of traveling about the state. If I have written with enthusiasm it is because I have enjoyed my experiences in seeking out the interesting and picturesque and writing about them for newspaper readers. I sought to take them to the scenes and share with them what I saw and felt. This book I have written with the same feeling. E. A. Seemann Publishing, Inc., (1972). hardcover books

Lighthouse Books, ABAA · États-Unis12,00 $US≈ 10,74 €

Smiley, NixonABAA

Yesterday’s Miami. With Photographs by Richard B. Hoit and others.

1973réf. vot731Miami Florida: E. A Seemann Publishing Inc. 1973. First Edition. Octavo red cloth hardcover photo. illustrated endpapers160 pp. Very Good with bookplate; in a Very Good mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: Miami the “Magic City” was just a settlement near Fort Dallas in Dade County in the early 1890s when Julia Tuttle convinced Henry Flagler to extend his railroad and to start a city at the new end of the line. Flagler’s surveyors began work in 1896 -- and Miami was off to a good start. Yesterday’s Miami is a photographic chronicle of the city and its sister communities Miami Beach Coral Gables and others. It shows the rapid progress made in such a short period and portrays vividly the pulsating life of the city. Nixon Smiley tells a fascinating story of Miami and its people in the introduction and explanatory captions -- a story of the mighty and the powerless the saintly and the crooked the famous infamous and unknown ones. From Fort Dallas to Lemon City to the establishment of the city of Miami the book covers all important events in its history -- early settlers World War I the Boom the bust Depression World War II and beyond; early railroading aviation automobiles; politics education sports even the first Orange Bowl game entertainment religion etc.; and all other human activities that make a city a living organism; without which a city would be no more than an accumulation of wood brick and stone. Richard Hoit’s photographs supplemented by many other pictures from various sources form the core of this book which conserves over two hundred and fifty images of the past that otherwise might have been lost or moldered in files and archives inaccessible to all but a few. For the native Yesterday’s Miami is a nostalgic record of the past; for the newcomer or tourist it offers the historical background necessary to understand the soul of a city. E. A Seemann Publishing, Inc., (1973). First Edition. hardcover books

Lighthouse Books, ABAA · États-Unis25,00 $US≈ 22,38 €

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