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First edition, first printing hardcover in like new condition. Boards are clean, square, and unmarked, with no shelfwear or fading. Dust jacket is fine; no tears, creasing, or sunning to the spine. Pages are clean and bright throughout and the copy appears entirely unread. Signed by Barbara Bush in black ink directly on the title page. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994. This copy was issued under the dedicated signed-edition ISBN (0-02-519275-2), separate from the standard unsigned trade printing. Scribner's also issued a leatherbound signed edition of this title through the Easton Press. Barbara Bush served as Second Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and as First Lady from 1989 to 1993, as the wife of George H. W. Bush, the 41st President. In this memoir, drawing on decades of personal diaries, she writes about her early life, her family, her decades in public life including the end of the Cold War and the Persian Gulf conflict, and her advocacy for literacy through the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy. The signature is presented as seen, directly on the title page, in keeping with this edition's program; no certificate of authenticity accompanies this particular copy. ISBN 0-02-519275-2