1967 forrest ace asa carter true 1st book@ George Lurleen Wallace Centre ALABAMA

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GEORGE AND LURLEEN WALLACE
by Forrest "Ace" "Asa" Carter (he is credited with writing the book in the one page preface)
Centre, Alabama: Historical Book Committee, Irene Wilson Chairman, 1967; 8
1/2
x 11 format (opens to 17x11 inches for reading or perusal) , stiff wraps, profusely illustrated,  67 pages.
Odd "limited edition" in that no # of copies is specified but statement at rear of book says that the book would only be available for 60 days from publication date. In my 40 years experience in dealing with Alabama books, it is indeed very, very scarce.
The controversial right-wing novelist's LITTLE-KNOWN first actual book, preceding his first published novel by 7 years. He was MUCH BETTER (and much later) known for his best-selling novels (written under his "later" name, Forrest Carter),
Outlaw Josey Wales
and
The Education of Little Tree
and he tried very hard to hide his racist past, including the fact that he led a bunch of guys onstage at the Municipal Auditorium in Birmingham Alabama in the early 1960s to attack Nat "King" Cole :-{
according to last page, the book was "assembled so that left wing propaganists and newsmen shall not distort historical facts . . ."
Here's a very brief synopsis of what various o n l i n e sites say about him (without mentioning this - his first book!):
Asa Earl Carter (September 4, 1925 – June 7, 1979) was a 1950s segregationist speech writer, and later Western novelist. He co-wrote George Wallace's well-known pro-segregation line of 1963, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever", and ran in the Democratic primary for governor of Alabama on a segregationist ticket. Years later, under the alias of supposedly Cherokee writer Forrest Carter, he wrote The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales (1972), a Western novel that led to a 1976 National Film Registry film, and The Education of Little Tree (1976), a best-selling, award-winning book which was marketed as a memoir but which turned out to be fiction.
In 1976, following the success of The Rebel Outlaw and its film adaptation, The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), The New York Times revealed Forrest Carter was actually Southerner Asa Carter. His background became national news again in 1991 after his purported memoir, The Education of Little Tree (1976), was re-issued in paperback, topped the Times paperback best-seller lists (both non-fiction and fiction), and won the American Booksellers Book of the Year (ABBY) award.
Prior to his literary career as "Forrest", Carter was politically active for years in Alabama as an opponent of the civil rights movement: he worked as a speech writer for segregationist Governor George Wallace of Alabama, founded the North Alabama Citizens Council (NACC) – an independent offshoot of the White Citizens' Council movement – and an independent Klan group, and started a pro-segregation monthly, titled The Southerner.
No copies listed online anywhere that I can tell. I DID find 2 original dust-jacketed copies of the rare Alabama imprinted true 1st  edition of his first novel, Josey Wales, for sale in the mid 4 figures!!!
VG, tight condition; the cover DOES show some very modest foxing (exaggerated a bit by my scanner) and a few spots of old modest soiling lower right fore-corner but those spots DO NOT bleed thru to the text block itself.
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