A Flora of Tropical Florida - a manual of the seed plants and ferns of Southern Peninsula Florida de Long, Robert W. & Lakela, Olga - 1978

Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. First edition (1878). Brown cloth cover worn with rubbing, notably near corners near spine, corner bumps and some light splotches. Spine ends frayed. Name, date and minor notes to front blank pages. Blue endpapers unmarked, with some wrinkling at a crack/split at hinge of front endpapers. Text unmarked and pages intact with some edge wear and aging. Gilt title and decorations intact on cover and spine. Plum Adirondack Bibliography number 7244. Please see image. 176 pages. Note that this edition has 176 pages, fewer than the later 1882 and other Houghton, Mifflin editions, which added two chapters and which have 226 pages. (All Houghton - whether Houghton Osgood or Houghton Mifflin - editions were issued in varying cover colors - red, green, brown - but all with the same blind stamped design. The 1878 1st editons I have seen have the additional gilt design along the top and lower front edges, as seen here.)

London, England: Macmillan and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1898. First Edition; First Printing. Leather. Green leather w/gilt page edges and gilt to edges of covers, marbled endpapers and blue ribbon bookmark that is detached; Toning to spine and edges of covers, pages very lightly toning; illustrated; 447 pages .

NY: Random House, 1993. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. HARDCOVER. 1993. FIRST EDITION. AS NEW, bound in umber and maroon with gold titles wrapped in an exquisitely photographed dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. 'Unconventional, highly entertaining, instructive and beautifully written --Publishers Weekly.' 394pp. Index. Wonderful gift.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY: Scribners, 1983. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. HARDCOVER. 1983. FIRST PRINTING of REVISED EDITION. AS NEW, bound in green cloth with map drawings on front and back endpapers in hunter green pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. 'A former cultural attache at the American Embassy in London shares his knowledge of many places most tourists never see.' 'The author seems to have gone everywhere, read everything and eaten in every kind of place along the way. --Smithsonian.' Illustrations. Index.. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

London: Effingham Wilson, 1829. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 278pp. Half calf marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine, 4 full-page lithographs, plus one title page lithograph. Wear to cover and spine, some loss of lettering on spine, cracking to joints and hinges but binding is holding firmly, and text block is tight. Contents are age-toned and have very little foxing, previous owner's names on front endpapers (one dated 1834.) Overall in sound condition. Includes accounts of Basil Hall, Charles Waterton, a Captain Head, and a Mr. Ward.

Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. First edition (1878). Brown cloth cover worn with rubbing, notably near corners near spine, corner bumps and some light splotches. Spine ends frayed. Name, date and minor notes to front blank pages. Blue endpapers unmarked, with some wrinkling at a crack/split at hinge of front endpapers. Text unmarked and pages intact with some edge wear and aging. Gilt title and decorations intact on cover and spine. Plum Adirondack Bibliography number 7244. Please see image. 176 pages. Note that this edition has 176 pages, fewer than the later 1882 and other Houghton, Mifflin editions, which added two chapters and which have 226 pages. (All Houghton - whether Houghton Osgood or Houghton Mifflin - editions were issued in varying cover colors - red, green, brown - but all with the same blind stamped design. The 1878 1st editons I have seen have the additional gilt design along the top and lower front edges, as seen here.)

London, England: Macmillan and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1898. First Edition; First Printing. Leather. Green leather w/gilt page edges and gilt to edges of covers, marbled endpapers and blue ribbon bookmark that is detached; Toning to spine and edges of covers, pages very lightly toning; illustrated; 447 pages .

NY: Random House, 1993. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. HARDCOVER. 1993. FIRST EDITION. AS NEW, bound in umber and maroon with gold titles wrapped in an exquisitely photographed dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. 'Unconventional, highly entertaining, instructive and beautifully written --Publishers Weekly.' 394pp. Index. Wonderful gift.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY: Scribners, 1983. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. HARDCOVER. 1983. FIRST PRINTING of REVISED EDITION. AS NEW, bound in green cloth with map drawings on front and back endpapers in hunter green pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. 'A former cultural attache at the American Embassy in London shares his knowledge of many places most tourists never see.' 'The author seems to have gone everywhere, read everything and eaten in every kind of place along the way. --Smithsonian.' Illustrations. Index.. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

London: Effingham Wilson, 1829. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 278pp. Half calf marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine, 4 full-page lithographs, plus one title page lithograph. Wear to cover and spine, some loss of lettering on spine, cracking to joints and hinges but binding is holding firmly, and text block is tight. Contents are age-toned and have very little foxing, previous owner's names on front endpapers (one dated 1834.) Overall in sound condition. Includes accounts of Basil Hall, Charles Waterton, a Captain Head, and a Mr. Ward.