Wagon Star, Signed (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. BW7 - A paperback book SIGNED by author on the title page in very good condition that has previous owner's info stamped and remainder mark on the bottom, curled/wavy, some bumped corners, small patch chipped on the front left side, light discoloration and shelf wear. 9"x6", 401 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Hitch Your Wagon to a Star is a fictionalized biography of a girl named Melba beginning with the childhood events that shape her. A little like the "ugly duckling", esteem issues coupled with being a bullied girl from the wrong side of town create challenges to her fortitude. Despite her outward bravado and pith, secret fears and longings are constant companions. Life in the early Texas oil towns of Damon and Kilgore is anything but easy, and a less determined child might have abandoned dreams, no matter how compelling. Melba's eventual successes mirror the dogged tenacity that pushes the girl with tattered, hand-me-down clothing and borrowed shoes to defy boundaries and ignore gender prejudice. Embedded in the story of her Texas family is history that includes little-known facts about the oil boom in Kilgore: the greed, the grime, the time of brutal martial law, the bawdiness of honky tonks, and, oddly, the persistent inclusion of music, the arts and higher education. Told by Terri Winters Majors, this compelling story about her mother, Melba Black Winters, is a history-spanning tale of life during the Great Depression, the East Texas Oil Boom, World War II, the Cold War, and the years leading up to and including "Women's Liberation". Hitch Your Wagon to a Star is a true story of grit and determination that gives readers a look at history from the perspective of a female who experienced the hell of the worst of times and the heaven of finding a special niche in spite of her reality. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. Remainder.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Indication as to Edition or Printing. 104 pages. Illustrated. Signed by Author. Autobiography.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Inscribed by author to Lil. Paper wraps self published with letters from the author's trip around the US.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st ed. [so stated]. 139p. Original grey cloth. 20 cm. Cover edges and backstrip browned with some foxing/spotting. Signature of Brugess Meredith on half-title. Former owner's bookplate ("Barbara Harris") on front free endpaper. No jacket. Meredith stared with Lillian Gish in this play which opened September 29th, 1937 at the Empire Theatre in New York City and ran for 223 performances.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 138. Original publisher's grey cloth, lettered red on spine and on front cover. Signed by the author on the title page. Flatsigned. Slight rubbing to covers and some dulling at spine, otherwise very good. Signedes.

Original Cloth. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: NVG. 2nd Printing. Book has one slightly bumped corner, cover edge fading, soiled endpapers. Dj has edgewear, soiling, foxing. What makes this copy of interest is that it is Signed by both Lillian Gish and Burgess Meredith on the Boston Shubert theatre playbill for May 30, 1938 which is pasted in with other materials which are laid in. Signed by Author(s). Book.