The Young Wrecker on the Florida Reef
by Richard Meade Bache, Tom Corcoran (Introduction)
A fifteen-year-old boy from New York, in 1839, finds himself thrust into a sea-going adventure in the Florida Keys. A popular book when first published in 1866, The Young Wrecker offers a wonderful depiction of nineteenth-century life in South Florida and in Key West.

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An interesting collection of newspaper columns capturing the flavor and craziness of old Key West. The author wrote for The Key West Citizen (the local daily paper) From the late 1950's to the mid 1970's. Chapters are highlighted with photographs by the mystery writer Tom Corcoran.


About the Author
Dorothy Raymer was a fixture of Key West journalism from 1949 until her death in 1982. She was a columnist and feature writer for the Key West Citizen, sketching past and present island scenes and characters. her writing credits included book and entertainment columns for the Miami News and brief stints with other publications. She received her Master's in English Literature from Ohio State University in 1931.
 

Thirteen interviews with family and friends of the Nobel laureate,
published by The Ketch & Yawl Press, Key West, Fla.,
to commemorate the centennial of Ernest Hemingway's birth.
Included are 30 photographs and interviews with:

* Charles & Lorine Thompson (close Key West friends)
* Betty Bruce (wife of Hemingway's close friend Toby Bruce)
* Bill Geiser (the Thompsons' close friend)
* Patrick Hemingway (the author's second son)
* Gregory Hemingway (the author's third son)
* Valerie Hemingway (the author's secretary, who married
    and divorced Gregory)
* Kermit "Shine" Forbes & James "Iron Baby" Roberts
   (boxers who trained with Hemingway in Key West) 
* L.T. Curry (Key West dockmaster during the '30s)
* Joe Allen (a newspaperman and good friend of Hemingway)
* Forrest MacMullen (an Idaho friend and hunting companion)
* Bud Purdy (another Idaho friend)
* Tillie Arnold (wife of Lloyd Arnold, who photographed
   Hemingway for the Union Pacific Railroad)
* William W. Seward (the only professor Hemingway
   professed to really like)

168pp./30 photographs
Softcover $12.95
Hardcover $19.95
Limited Edition of 200 numbered copies
(signed by Plath, Simons & Hemingway) $40