[Rarebooks] FS: Jimmy Carter: WHY NOT THE BEST? Signed

[Charles Agvent]

CARTER,  Jimmy.  WHY  NOT   THE  BEST?  Nashville,  TN:
         Broadman  Press  (1977).  First   Edition.  The  Presidential
         Edition,  issued  without  dustwrapper in a gold  box  with a
         plastic  cover  and bound in full gilt-decorated green  cloth
         made to  resemble  leather.  Illustrated  with  drawings  and
         photographs.    A   limited  edition    of   Carter's   first
         autobiography,  written as President. There was also a  trade
         edition  in  dustwrapper. This copy specially SIGNED  by  the
         author  as  "J. Carter" as well as by Rosalynn Carter on  the
         front free  endpaper. His full signature also appears on  the
         title page,  but this is printed in every copy, despite  what
         some of  our  colleagues say. Book Fine, essentially new,  in
         Near Fine case.                                       $450.00

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