Corse, Darita Doggett

The Key to the Golden Islands. With a foreword by Percy MacKaye. Illustrated by Louise Turck

Chapel Hill, (NC): UNC Press, 1931. First edition, 1/212 copies signed by the author. 8vo. xvi, 165 pp. Illustrated from line drawings, plates, endpaper maps. Discovery and early history of Fort George Island at the mouth of the St. John's River in Florida. Books from Chapel Hill (1946), p. 38: "Sixteenth century world of storm-driven sails, flashing armor, clanging steel, and chanting monks … dramatic impact of European Church and State upon a beautiful and savage land." Very good, partly unopened copy. Original parchment-backed red gilt-stamped decorated cloth, gilt spine title, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. (#8198). Item #61176

Price: $75.00