SPECIAL EDITION OF THIS BOOK LIMITED TO 300 COPIES "PREPARED FOR FRIENDS OF THE AUTHOR", NICELY INSCRIBED BY ROSALYN CARTER TO A WHITE HOUSE USHER, NELSON PIERCE.

Nelson Pierce was a noted White House usher, who passed in 2014.  From his obituary:

"...After quickly building a family of four and with the assistance of Mr. Rodger's, Nelson began a position at the White House where he served 6 presidents; President's Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan. As a White House usher he did a "little bit of everything" to ensure the first families had any and everything they needed. He managed the daily operations of the 97-person staff and the 132-room White House while trying to remain invisible.

Nelson's career at the White House was packed full of amazing memories like when he helped Caroline Kennedy learn how to do a somersault, read stories to John-John Kennedy, tuned Amy Carter's violin and helped build her tree house, filled in for President Johnson during Linda's Wedding rehearsal, announced the Presidents' entry, and put together a train set for Ronald Reagan. There were also some not so entertaining memories like the famous moment with Nancy Regan's dog Rex, and the tragic call he placed to lower the flag to half-mast after President Kennedy's death. Nelson has been quoted in numerous novels about his service in the White House like: The First Family Detail and Inside the White House By Ronald Kessler; Ask What You Can Do for Your Country: The Memory and Legacy of John F. Kennedy by Daniel B Fleming and Mary McGory; Reflections on the Life, Assassination, and Legacy of John F. Kennedy by Dean R. Owen; the TV movie documentary: White House Revealed and the many Smithsonian and CNN White House features."

FIRST EDITION, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1984.  The autograph has not been authenticated but is consistent with others easily found online.  I have no doubt of its authenticity, given its provenance.  The book is in VERY GOOD CONDITION, with the small wear issue in that it has been stored awkwardly and it has a lean - not to the right (which is common), but more up and down where the front board juts up in comparison to back board.  The book will be stored wrapped in shrink in a straightened position which should have this bend.  The dust jacket has light wear, a few small tears, now handsomely encased in a mylar jacket.  Boards clean with a little bit of age-toning/soiling near the edges due to exposure.  No further interior marks in 370 clean and solidly bound pages.

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