Leighton Frances Spatz Parks Lillian (13 results)

Hardcover. Second printing. Octavo, x, 346 pages. In Poor plus condition. Spine is red with gold print. Boards in red cloth. Wear to spine caps and corners, light shelf wear. Text block has broken front hinge exposing binding, inscription in ink on front flyleaf, rear hinge cracked and taped. 1369456. FP New Rockville Stock.

Condition: VG/Good 0nly (see notes). 4th ptg. 12mo. 346pp. Spine cocked a bit. Red part of DJ spine quite sunned. 1/4" tears, shallow chipping and edgewear to DJ. In mylar. Starting to become uncommon.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+ DJ. 2nd Printing. Fleet Publication 1961 2nd Printing Good+/Good+ DJ Ex-library with usual markings. Remainder of tape on dark-red cloth where jacket was once attached. Tight binding, Slight wear throughon bottom corner. Bright plain black spine (looks like library repair), tight unmarked pages. 346 pages. Bright glossy clipped dust jacket with mended tears and Dewey decimal library tag on spine and remainder of library tag on front with nice picture of Frances Leighton (Author) on back flap. HEAVY ITEM 1.34 Pounds. Size: 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches. No Exp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. ] Hardback, octavo, 5 1/8 x 8 inches, 346 pages, VG to VG+ in Good dj (dj now in protective mylar). Book itself quite nice, only flaw neat name/Akron, Ohio address/1961 Mother's Day note ffep. DJ price-clipped & mildly tattered but no fading. RWR5 Washington DC US Presidents American History Autobiography Biography.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover--dust cover shows moderate wear--otherwise, excellent condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Light gray cloth. Fourth printing in copyright year. Memoirs by the author, who served as a maid and seamstress at the Executive Mansion before her retirement, following in the footsteps of her mother, Number One White House Maid for thirty years. Very liight rubbing to cover extremities. Very faint age darkening of spine cloth. Small, neat prior owner inscription to upper front endpaper. Otherwise clean and tight in a bright but moderately-to-heavily edgeworn dust jacket, with most wear to corners and spine edges. Worn closed 2" split at lower front cover corner where it adjoins front flap. Spine somewhat sunned. Panels lightly scuffed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. My Thirty Years Backstairs in the White House by Lillian Rogers Parks Leaned with bug-nibbled cloth binding. No dust jacket present. Presumed first, no statement. In collaboration with Frances Spatz Leighton. Red cloth, spine lettered gilt. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. 3RD PRINTING. owner's name, nice, collectable copy!.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. 1st Edition. Burgundy boards with gilt titles on spine. Dust jacket has light wear, although covered in Brodart cover for protection. Small stain on book edge. Price not clipped. Signed and inscribed by collaborator Frances Spatz Leighton. Signed and inscribed by collab.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Printing [Stated]. xiv, 285, [1] pages. Illustrations. Small chips at bottom of the dust jacket noted. Includes A Note to the Reader, and Who's Who in this Book, as well as an Epilogue, Books of Special Interest on the Roosevelts, and an Index. Part 1 includes Nothing Is As It Seems; Part 2 includes The People Around FDR; Part 3 includes Growing Up Roosevelt; Part 4 includes Babs and Boss; Part 5 includes Death Hangs Over the White House. Lillian Rogers Parks (February 1, 1897 - November 6, 1997) was an American housemaid and seamstress in the White House. With the journalist Frances Spatz Leighton, co-author of a number of White House memoirs, Parks published My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House. The book covers a 50-year period in the life of domestic staff in the White House. It reports Parks' experiences as a seamstress, and those of her mother, 'Maggie' Rogers, who served as a housemaid for thirty years. Lillian Rogers Parks was portrayed by Leslie Uggams in the 1979 miniseries Backstairs at the White House. Many of the gifts she received (revealed in the aforementioned book) from presidents during her time there later became notable artifacts and collectibles associated with presidential history, eventually ending up in the Raleigh DeGeer Amyx Collection. She also published The Roosevelts: A Family in Turmoil in 1981 in collaboration with Frances Spatz Leighton. She was an honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. In this book, Lillian Rogers Parks (a retired White House maid) and Frances Spatz Leighton (a Washington D.C. journalist) set the record straight about the sometimes shocking, always fascinating personal triumphs and tragedies of this family in turmoil. Here, "Little Lillian," as she was called by FDR, discloses the secrets she, and her circle of retired White House retainers, have known and kept quiet for many years, including startling revelations about the relationship between Franklin and Eleanor, and explosive details on their relationships outside of marriage. The drama of FDR's romantic alliances with his live-in secretary Missy LeHand and his longtime friend Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd are contrasted with Eleanor's attachments to Lorena Hickok, a friend who took up residence at the White House for months at a time, and to Earl Miller, the former New York officer who had served as Eleanor's bodyguard. This book illuminates the intimate, day-to-day life of this centrifuge of power--America's First Family--against the drama and crisis of the Depression and World War II. Derived from a Kirkus review: All the dirt that's left to print. FDR and Lucy, Missy, Martha, et al. Eleanor and Earl--and other unnamed women, other unnamed men. Eleanor vs. Franklin. Eleanor vs. Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes, others' on FDR's side. Her "remoteness" as a mother. The fights with daughter Anna. Anna's failings as a mother. The many marriages, many indiscretions, many scrapes of the Roosevelt sons. The "royal headache" of the British royal visit. . . . The terrible food, the poor pay, the killing hours. . . .Noteworthy for Lillian Rogers Parks' evident appreciation of Eleanor Roosevelt's regard for blacks and FDR's feeling for her as a fellow-victim of polio.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Isadore Parker (illustrator). First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Old store stock in unread condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. No extraneous markings. All pages are intact and binding is strong. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.01.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Fine condition maroon cloth boards with bright gold spine lettering contained in a very good condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; and Preliminary Page entitled: "To Help You Get the Picture.". Some upper and lower dust jacket spine edge rubbing wear and some scattered light edgewear, a 1/2 inch and 1/8th inch repaired closed tears at the lower front jacket edge. (see photographs). All pages are in fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding is exceedingly tight and square. (see photos). "From My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House: WILSON: "The President was really a frustrated actor. Mama would find him making faces, clowning, and doing a jig with his daughters, or taking a very serious part in a play, and speaking with one arm raised dramatically." COOLIDGE: "As a trick on the staff, he would press all the buttons on his desk and chuckle as they popped into his office from all directions. 'Just wanted to see if everybody's working,' he would say." HOOVER: "The President hardly took enough time to eat, so anxious was he to get back to work. All the servants made bets as to how long it would take him to eat. He could eat a full-course dinner in eight minutes flat. They would return to the kitchen and say, 'Nine minutes, fifteen seconds.' " ROOSEVELT: "He was strangely economy-minded when it came to running the White House. he would send notes to Mrs. Roosevelt, telling her about the bills and why he couldn't afford them. In one such note, he told her what amount he could afford to pay each month, and requested that she stick to the budget." TRUMAN: "I never saw President Truman more excited than when Blair House called him to tell him Bess was sick .Nothing in the world could upset him more than a crisis or setback that concerned his womenfolk." EISENHOWER: "He seemed to be clannish and to stick to just a few friends. 'Ike was really sort of an introvert, who liked to get away from people, and enjoyed painting because it was a solitary occupation." - from the rear outer jacket. "There's no place like the White House," declares Lillian Rogers Parks, who served as a maid and seamstress at the Executive Mansion for thirty years before her recent retirement. Her mother, who had been Number One White House Maid, also worked there for thirty years (ten of their combined years of service overlapped), beginning with the Taft administration; and before her death in 1953, "Maggie" Rogers encouraged her daughter to write down their favorite White House stories. The result is the most lively and entertaining collection of memoirs to come along in years. 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 Presidnets have received. Historians will be interested in the White House version of such famous feuds as Eisenhower versus Truman and Dolly Gann versus Alice Roosevelt Longworth. And Mrs. Parks also recounts those tragedies and scandals that have always plagued the First Families. My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House comprises a half century of priceless anecdotes of the Presidents and First Ladies; their friends, relatives and famous visitors; their children and pets, and their more memorable retainers and guardians." - from the inner front jacket flap.