Collaboration

1961 · 28963 — New York: Fleet Publishing Corporation. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. c.1961. 2nd printing. Hardcover. nice-looking copy only minimal shelfwear to book; the jacket is very slightly edgeworn but still bright and attractive. Memoir by the woman who worked in the White House as a maid and seamstress for thirty years -- as did her mother before her with a ten-year overlap. "Through the sharp eye of her sewing needle Mrs. Parks sizes up the First Ladies from Mrs. Taft to Mrs. Eisenhower as hostesses fashion plates collectors interior decorators and managers of the world's most famous mansion. The author examines everything pertaining to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue from the various rooms and their collections to the still active ghosts of Abe Lincoln Dolley Madison and Abigail Adams. She details the more amusing headaches of the Secret Service in dealing with cranks crackpots and would-be assassins and describes some of the more extraordinary gifts that the Presidents have received." The kind of memoir of which we will certainly see no more. . Fleet Publishing Corporation hardcover