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Lot 91
[FLORIDA] CANOVA, ANDREW P. Life and Adventures in South Florida.
Tampa: Tribune Printing, 1906. Second edition (?). Half green morocco, original wrappers bound-in. 7 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches (18 x 13 cm); portrait frontispiece, 158 pp., contents leaf at end. A sound copy overall, though with a loss to the blank upper margin of the title.
A second edition that appears equally rare as the first; other than an example we recently sold from the Johnson collection, we trace one copy of this 1906 edition on Rare Book Hub, that listed as with Lathrop Harper in 1914. The work provides a narrative of "Billy Bowlegs War" or the final standoff between the Seminole and Florida settlers and also offers a sketch of life in Florida at that time (1885) with hunting and fishing content. Howes lists this 1906 edition as the first reprint of the work but one 1912 entry on Rare Book Hub lists an 1888 edition which does not seem to exist elsewhere and is likely an error. For a recent sale of the first edition also from the Johnson library, see Doyle, 13 April 2018, lot 307; see also see The Edward S. Litchfield Collection, p. 56; Streeter 4106; and Howes C117.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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