An Hour Before Daylight; Memories of a Rural Boyhood, With Ephemera
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001. First Edition. Light brown boards with quarter blue and spine with author, title and publisher in gilt on spine. SIGNED "J Carter" on title page. 8vo 6.5" x 9.5" pp [1-12] 13-184 [185-186]. Uncut fore edge, clean, tight text block. DJ has a few age spots and cup ring on front, price sticker adhesive on the rear. Jimmy Carter reaches back to growing up on a rural farm in Georgia when segregation was common and poverty was prolific. Fine / good +. Item #3132
"I was by far the smallest one on the team and acquired the name 'Peewee' from a comic-strip character. But I was also the quickest, and we depended a lot on fast breaks whenever our team got the ball..." (p 215).
Price: $55.00