A Rose Blooms in Texas: Coming of Age in the Civil War Era Tapa dura - 2015

Houston, Texas: Bright Sky Press, 2015. CV4 - A first edition (stated with complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED by Carlos R. Hamilton Jr. on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket and book have some bumped corners and light shelf wear. Includes a laid in promotional bookmark. 9.5"x6.5", 448 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. SHORTLY AFTER CARLOS Hamilton began his medical practice in Houston, he inherited an over-sized piano that had belonged to his great-grandmother. The difficulty in moving the instrument, even in the 20th century, made him wonder how - and why - a family in 1857 would move it from North Carolina to a rural east Texas plantation so that a ten-year-old child could study music. Although Berta Smith Wootters had died many decades before Hamilton was born, her children continued to express great affection and admiration for her. Her husband, John Wootters, had died young, likely from complications of a Civil War wound, yet she… Leer más

Bright Sky Press. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 2015. First ed. Hardcover. 1931721041 . 6 X 1 X 9 inches; 448 pages; Signed by Author .

Fine. Jacket in mylar. 1st printing.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.