NORMA WATKINS — “THE LAST RESORT – TAKING THE MISSISSIPPI CURE”. 

HARDCOVER / DUST JACKET / FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING / PUBLISHED IN 2011 BY UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI / ILLUSTRATED WITH RARE BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS. 

FANTASTIC MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR’S TIME SPENT GROWING UP IN THE LEGENDARY MISSISSIPPI SPA, ALLISON’S WELLS… 

*** SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR NORMA WATKINS (“FOR NATALIE — I LOVE THE SMUDGES, NORMA”) ***

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