Florida Sketches: A Delightful Tour in Text and Pictures of Some of the Most Fascinating Sights and Landmarks of Florida.

Miami, FL: E. A. Seemann Publishing, Inc., (1974). First Edition. Octavo, burgundy cloth (hardcover), 159 pp. Very Good, with bumped corners; in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with light edgewear and sunning. From dustjacket: Come take a trip through Florida with Hampton Dunn -- a trip that will not just take you to the best-known attractions of the Sunshine State, but rather to some out-of-the-way places where interesting and unusual things can be seen. Hampton Dunn tells in seventy-five vignettes that sparkle like a fresh mountain brook not only of places, but also of the people of the state, and he spans the time from the prehistoric mammoth to modern-day Florida. Whether he talks about General Grant’s house in Longwood (That Grant didn’t build), the pioneer botantist Alvah Chapman of Apalachicola, the fabulous Boca Raton Hotel & Club, Florida’s oldest Baptist Missionary Church in Campbellton, Frederick Delius in Florida, Al Capone in Miami Beach, or a host of other subjects, Dunn is always informative and entertaining. Even as an armchair trip, reading Florida Sketches will be purely enjoyable. (Inventory #: 1685gls)