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  LIMITED EDITION, Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick, personalized



 
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This copy has been prepared for....: 		(NOTE: If ordering multiple copies, just enter the names you'd like here, separated by commas.) The dust jacket for your limited edition is personalized inside the front flap of the jacket. It reads: "This limited edition has been prepared by the publisher expressly for ______" Please indicate in this box how you would like your name to read on the jacket flap. You can use your full name, a nickname, gift recipient's name, company name or even a memorial inscription. (IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO HAVE YOUR BOOK PERSONALIZED, PLEASE TYPE "NONE" IN THE BOX)

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About The Book
 
"General Lamar and Mrs. Juan N. Seguin, wife of the Mayor, opened the ball with a waltz. Mrs. Seguin was so fat that the General had great difficulty in getting a firm hold on her waist, and they cut such a figure that we were forced to smile. The General was a poet, a polite and brave gentleman and first rate conversationalist but he did not dance well. 

At the ball, Jack Hays, Mike Chevalier, and John Howard (Texas Rangers) had but one dress coat between them, and they agreed to use the coat and dance in turn. The two not dancing would stand at the hall door watching the happy one who was enjoying his turn and they reminded him when it was time for him to step out of that coat. Great fun was it watching them and listening to their wit and mischief as they made faces and shook their fists at the dancing one."

So said Mary Maverick in her memoir. She was a straight-forward writer and gave it a straight-forward title: The Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick.

In case you didn't know, Mary was the wife of Samuel Maverick, the man who refused to brand his cattle, and thereby branded future independent thinkers with his name.

Mary was the first American woman to set up house in San Antonio. She witnessed the Council House fight, the Comanche Invasion of 1840, and knew most of the famous Texans of her day.

Her memoir is a grand narrative of life in Texas from 1838 through the Civil War.

About the Edition

The edition is limited to just 254 copies. That's the number of counties in Texas and the size of all of our limited editions. 

Most publishers of limited editions print a thousand or more. At 254, you can be sure these will become heirlooms and collector's items. Just how few is 254? Well, every one of them could be packed into two large suitcases.

Your copy will be hand-numbered and the jacket personalized with your name (or the name of your gift recipient...this is a gift that will score you big points.) 

The personalization on the jacket reads:

This Limited Edition copy of 
The Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick
has been prepared by the 
publisher expressly for
(your name here).

Order your copy today. 


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