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Hardcover, bound in full genuine dark blue gilt-stamped leather binding. 415 pages. Illustrated with 16 unnumbered pages of photographs. Brand new copy in factory shrink-wrap. A quality Easton Press production with all the refinements that go to make this a truly fine binding: bound in satin ribbon marker, all edges gilt, raised spine, 22kt gold stamping, smyth-sewn binding, silk moire end-papers, acid free archival paper and full genuine leather binding. Limited First signed and numbered edition, published by Easton Press, 1999. Signed by author Helen Thomas. One of 1,200 copies, with COA (Certificate of Authenticity) and Publisher’s information card laid-in loose. A memoir by a pioneering woman reporter whose 57 year career saw her covering every President from the beginning of the Kennedy administration to the second year of Obama’s first term. As well as a long serving member of the White House Press corps she was “the first female officer of the National Press Club, the first female member and president of the White House Correspondents’ Association and the first female member of the Gridiron Club.” A pristine copy, gift quality, new in shrink wrap.