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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Printing. 6"x9' 152 numb. pgs. Signed by author. Brown cover w/little boy sitting on wagon wheel. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped ($20.00 sticker), no other markings. Secure ship w/track #. Watermelon Hill is a look at the life and times of the forties and fifties as seen through thte eyes of a young boy growing up on a poor farm in eastern Kentucky. Not many jobs were available in Appalachia in those days, and if you wanted a good job you usually had to leave home to find it. These storeis of a hard working family, struggloing sometimes to make ends meet, but never losing their pride. A nostalgic, sometimes humorous look into the past where there were few if any conveniences, lots of hard work, and people had to make their own entertainment. Lofe was simpler but in many ways, better. Signed.