Description: Christmas in Plains by Jimmy Carter. Hardcover with dust jacket, published by Simon and Schuster 2001, first edition first printing. 155 pages, illustrated. Inscribed and signed by President Carter on the first free endpaper. From the dust jacket: "In a beautifully rendered portrait, Jimmy Carter remembers the Christmas days of his Plains boyhood - the simplicity of family and community gift-giving, his father's eggnog, the children's house decorations, the school Nativity pageant, the fireworks, Luke's story of the birth of Christ, and the poignancy of his black neighbors' poverty. Later, away at Annapolis, he always went home to Plains, and during his Navy years, when he and Rosalynn were raising their young family, they spent their Christmases together re-creating for their children the holiday festivities of their youth. Since the Carters returned home to Plains for good, they have always been there on Christmas Day, with only one exception in forty-eight years: In 1980, with Americans held hostage in Iran, Jimmy, Rosalynn, and Amy went by themselves to Camp David, where they felt lonely. Amy suggested that they invite the White House staff and their families to join them and to celebrate. Nowadays the Carters' large family is still together at Christmastime, offering each other the gifts and the lifelong rituals that mark this day for them. With the novelist's eye that enchanted readers of his memoir An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter has written another American classic, in the tradition of Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory and Dylan Thomas's A Child's Christmas in Wales." A beautiful copy, almost like new. The only flaws found: a few creases on the edges and corners of the dust jacket; rear of dust jacket has some gray smudging.
Price: 40 USD
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Signed By: Jimmy Carter
Book Title: Christmas in Plains
Signed: Yes
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Original Language: English
Item Length: 7.25 in
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Inscribed: Yes
Edition: First Edition
Vintage: Yes
Publication Year: 2001
Type: A Memoir of a Former President
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Illustrator: Amy Carter
Author: Jimmy Carter
Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated, Signed by Carter, First Printing, Inscribed by Carter
Genre: Memoir, Autobiography
Topic: Carter's Memories of Christmases in Plains, Georgia
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Width: 5.25 in
Number of Pages: 155
