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Betty: A Glad Awakening; With Chris Chase
by Ford, Betty
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 038523502X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385235020
- Seller
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition of Betty: A Glad Awakening, signed by First Lady Betty Ford.. Octavo, xv, [5], 217pp. Green boards, black cloth spine, title printed in silver on spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Solid text block. In the publisher's dust jacket, $16.95 retail price on front flap, touch of wear along top edge, a fine example. Signed by the author on the title page.
Synopsis
During her time as First Lady, Betty Ford was renowned for her honesty and openness. Mrs. Ford's candor didn't stop once she left the White House. In 1978, she revealed to the world her courageous struggle to recover from an addiction to alcohol and prescription pills. Resolving to help others deal with the disease of addiction, Mrs. Ford, along with Ambassador Leonard Firestone, co-founded the nonprofit Betty Ford Center in 1982, in Rancho Mirage, California. She serves as Chairwoman of the Center's Board of Directors.
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15593
- Title
- Betty: A Glad Awakening; With Chris Chase
- Author
- Ford, Betty
- Illustrator
- First edition of Betty: A Glad Awakening, signed by First Lady Betty Ford.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 038523502X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385235020
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- Humor and the Presidency Gerald Ford, A Time To Heal Gerald Ford, Portrait of the assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, The Times of My Life Betty Ford, Betty A Glad Awakening
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