INSCRIBED BY PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER

CARTER, Jimmy. An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood. New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001). Octavo, original half blue paper boards, original dust jacket. $500.

First edition of President Carter’s memoirs of his childhood on a Georgia farm, inscribed, "Best wishes to Bill—J Carter 11/01."

"Carter has written more than a dozen books since he left the White House; this vivid recollection of his Georgia childhood will probably be one of his most popular efforts. There are facts here—about the economics of farming during the Depression, the structure of sharecropping, and Georgia politics, for example—but the focus of Carter's narrative is the people who nurtured him on the farm and in Plains. Despite segregation, these people included African American neighbors as well as his own family, and Carter supplies lively portraits of many of the adults and children, black and white, who impressed him when he was little" (Booklist). With black-and-white photographic illustrations.

A fine copy.