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Dwight D. Eisenhower. CRUSADE IN EUROPE. Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, 1948.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 559p. A hardcover book bound in golden-brown cloth. Very good condition. The spine label is scuffed; otherwise clean and tight. The first trade edition of Eisenhower's World War II memoir, published after the signed limited edition. Illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. This copy contains the bookplate of "Crab" Corbly, who was the longtime head of the Disabled American Veterans (DAV).
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
Dwight D. Eisenhower. CRUSADE IN EUROPE. Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, 1948.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 559p. A hardcover book bound in golden-brown cloth. Near-fine condition. Faint abrasion to spine label; bottom corners barely bumped. Otherwise clean and tight. The first trade edition of Eisenhower's World War II memoir, published after the signed limited edition. Illustrated with black and white photographs and maps.
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
Eisenhower, Dwight D.. Crusade in Europe. Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, 1948.
Price: US$2200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo, xiv, [2], 559pp. Publisher's tan cloth, title printed on spine. Stated "first edition" on copyright page, noting that it follows the limited edition, which was published the same year. Illustrated endpapers. Solid text block, internally clean, a fine example. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, price clipped, bright illustrations, a near fine example. Signed on the half-title: "For James _, with best wishes, Dwight D. Eisenhower." An exceptional copy.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Eisenhower, Dwight.. Crusade in Europe.. Doubleday & Company, 1948., 1948.
Price: US$2560.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition after printing of the limited edition. 559p. Maps. Heavy. Price clipped. In mylar. SIGNED & inscribed to Elizabeth Butler Howry on the half-title. She has also written her name on the title page in pencil. Ike appointed Ms Howry to the Committee on the National Cultural Center. A Washington society woman. Died August 1964. Near Fine/Near Fine copy
Seller: Military Books, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Dwight D. Eisenhower. Crusade In Europe. Doubleday & Company,Inc, 1948.
Price: US$2995.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Copy In Like Jacket.$5.00 On Flap. First Edition After Signed Limited Edition. Signed by The Author On Half-Title.Also TLS From Eisenhower's Secretary That He Gladly Signed The Book.Comes In a Gorgeous Clam-Shell Box With Leather Spine. Trades Are Very Rare Signed.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A very nice copy of Edition , First Printing , after a Limited Edition . SIGNED by Eisenhower . Inscribed : " For Bob Oliphant with best wishes from an old family friend ! Dwight Eisenhower " . The book is clean , no marks other than the inscription . The binding is tight . The cloth on the boards is fresh . The graphics on the spine are bright . The dust jacket shows light wear and is now protected with a mylar vover .
Seller: The History Place, Palestine, TX, U.S.A.
Eisenhower, Dwight D.. Crusade in Europe. Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, 1948.
Price: US$3200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, xiv, [2], 559pp. Publisher's tan cloth, title printed on spine. Stated "first edition" on copyright page, noting that it follows the limited edition, which was published the same year. Illustrated endpapers. Solid text block, internally clean. Rubbing to spine from handling. In the publisher's dust jacket, price clipped, bright illustrations, small archival tape repairs to verso, a bright example. Inscribed to Fred J. Byington (1876-1952) of Wilmette, Ill, General Manager of the North Western Railway. Signed on the half-title: "For Fred Byington, with best wishes and warm regard from his friend. Dwight D. Eisenhower / Dec. '48." From the Eisenhower library, this copy is one of 110 first trade editions inscribed by Gen. Eisenhower to friends and fellow dignitaries when the book was released in December of 1948. Other notable recipients of the first trade edition include: General Jimmy Doolittle, Averell Harriman, Lt. General Manton Eddy, and General Hap Arnold. Includes Beckett Letter of Authenticity.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
EISENHOWER, Dwight. CRUSADE IN EUROPE. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, 1948.
Price: US$3437.50 + shipping
Description: First Edition preceding the trade edition. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. Copy #1016 of 1426 deluxe numbered copies SIGNED by the author on the facsimile page of the D-Day Order to send the troops to storm the beaches of Normandy, which begins: "You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you." Spine darkened on the lower third and rubbed though the lettering is still clear; contents Fine. Overall Very Good, lacking the slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Eisenhower, Dwight D.. Crusade in Europe. Doubleday & Company, 1948.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed limited edition. Signed by Eisenhower on facsimile of the D-Day order (tipped in before title page, as issued), and hand-numbered 854 of 1,426 copies on limitation page. Octavo in brown cloth, with original clear mylar jacket, in publisher's board slipcase with paper label. Deckle edges. 4.5" scratch to spine affecting title panel, discolored patch to spine at top; text clean, binding sound; tears and chip to clear plastic jacket corresponding to scratch and discoloration of spine, else very light wear to jacket; light soiling and wear to irregularly darkened slipcase, scratch and light chipping to slipcase label, partial split to slipcase along closed end, open edges of slipcase exposed. A handsome copy.
Seller: Twice Sold Tales, Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
EISENHOWER, Dwight D.. Crusade in Europe.. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1948.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Description: xiv, 559 pp. Illustrated. 8vo, publisher's cloth, t.e.g., in acetate wrapper and publisher's slipcase. First limited edition; No. 577 of 1326 copies, signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower at the base of the facsimile D-Day "Order of the Day." There is very slight offsetting of Eisenhower's signature onto the limitation page opposite; large chip to the clear acetate wrapper; very slight foxing to the fore-edge of the text block; slipcase sunned and rubbed at edges. Laid in is a copy SHAEF broadside in which Eisenhower relinquished Combined Command, July 14, 1945.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
EISENHOWER, Dwight D.. Crusade in Europe. Doubleday, Garden City, 1948.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Maps and illustrations. 559pp. tan cloth, gilt to, other edges uncut. Garden City: Doubleday, 1958. Limited Edition. One of 1426 copies signed by Eisenhower on the facsimile broadside of his D-Day Message. Fine, except for tiny dent on the top of the spine.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Eisenhower, Dwight David. CRUSADE IN EUROPE. Doubleday, 1948.
Price: US$5705.65 + shipping
Description: CRUSADE IN EUROPE, Doubleday, 1948, first edition, t.p.e.'s in gold-gilt, fore edge and bottom edge uncut, fine in original acetate dust-wrapper in vg+ slip-case. One of 1426 copies specially bound and SIGNED by the author. Illustrated.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Eisenhower, Dwight D.. Crusade in Europe. Doubleday & Company, New York, 1948.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, #367 of 1426 copies, Signed by Eisenhower on the facsimile of the D-Day Order of the Day opposite the colophon page. Illustrated with six color maps by Rafael Palacios and 38 text maps, also includes six photographic illustrations selected by Edward Steichen. 559pp. 1 vols. 4to. Signed by Eisenhower. Brown buckram, t.e.g., rest of edges uncut, map endpapers. Fine in original glassine and printed slipcase (very slightly worn) Illustrated with six color maps by Rafael Palacios and 38 text maps, also includes six photographic illustrations selected by Edward Steichen. 559pp. 1 vols. 4to First edition, #367 of 1426 copies, Signed by Eisenhower on the facsimile of the D-Day Order of the Day opposite the colophon page.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
EISENHOWER, Dwight. CRUSADE IN EUROPE. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, 1948.
Price: US$6250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition preceding the trade edition. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. Copy #89 of 1426 deluxe numbered copies SIGNED by the author on the facsimile page of the D-Day Order to send the troops to storm the beaches of Normandy, which begins: "You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you." Owner inscription from 1948 on the blank recto of the limitation page. Near Fine in original acetate which has some foxing and short tears and a Near Fine slipcase with a little wear to the outside edges
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
EISENHOWER, Dwight D.. Crusade in Europe.. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948, 1948.
Price: US$6458.02 + shipping
Description: First edition, signed limited issue, number 1,054 of 1,426 copies signed by Eisenhower under his D-Day message to the troops. Crusade in Europe made Eisenhower a rich man, "becoming one of the most widely translated and sold books of all time. It is often compared to Grant's memoirs as a classic of military writing" (ANB). Octavo. Original light brown buckram over bevelled boards, spine lettered in gilt on black ground, facsimile signature to front cover in black, map endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. In original glassine. With 16 black and white plates from photographs (selected by Edward Steichen), 4 double-page maps, and 38 full-page maps to the text. Tiny chip to rear endpaper and a few nicks to untrimmed edges: a near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Crusade in Europe.. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY, 1948.
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Description: Signed limited first editionÂof General Eisenhower's wartime memoirs. Thick octavo, original cloth,Âcartographic endpapers, top edge gilt, original acetate. One of 1426 numbered copies signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower, this is number 1392. Fine in the original acetate jacket and in the original slipcase which is in very good condition. Five-star General Dwight D. Eisenhower was arguably the single most important military figure of World War II. For many historians, his memoirs of this eventful period of U.S. history have become the single most important record of the war. Crusade in Europe tells the complete story of the war as Eisenhower planned and lived it. Through his eyes, the enormous scope and drama of the warâstrategy, battles, moments of fateful decisionâbecome fully illuminated in all their fateful glory. "Eisenhower gives the reader true insight into the most difficult part of a commander's life" (New York Times).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
EISENHOWER Dwight D.. Crusade in Europe. , 1948.
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Description: EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Crusade in Europe. Garden City: Doubleday, 1948. Thick octavo, original tan linen, cartographic endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut; custom slipcase in imitation of the original, housed in a custom chemise and slipcase. $6500.Signed limited first edition, number 1340 of 1426 copies signed by Eisenhower at the bottom of a facsimile of his D-Day message to Allied troops.Eisenhower's memoir provides an important and unique perspective on the difficult command-level decisions that decided the outcome of World War II. Included are numerous battlefield and theater maps (a number in color), as well as photographic illustrations selected by Edward Steichen. Without original acetate and slipcase. Interior clean and fine, slight rubbing to spine. A near-fine signed copy.
Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
EISENHOWER, Dwight. CRUSADE IN EUROPE. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, 1948.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition preceding the trade edition. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. Copy #330 of 1426 deluxe numbered copies SIGNED by the author on the facsimile page of the D-Day Order to send the troops to storm the beaches of Normandy, which begins: "You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you." Fine in original acetate and a Near Fine slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
EISENHOWER Dwight D.. Crusade in Europe. , 1948.
Price: US$12800.00 + shipping
Description: EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Crusade in Europe. Garden City: Doubleday, 1948. Thick octavo, original tan linen, cartographic endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut, original acetate wrapper, original slipcase. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $12,800.Signed limited first edition, number 455 of 1426 copies signed by Eisenhower at the bottom of his D-Day message to Allied troops; this copy additionally inscribed by him on the limitation leaf: "For Brigadier General Frank Coffeyoutstanding soldier in two World Wars, with best wishes and lasting regard to him and his wife, Louise, from their devoted friend, Ike Eisenhower."Eisenhower's memoir provides an important and unique perspective on the difficult command-level decisions that decided the outcome of World War II. Included are numerous battlefield and theater maps (a number in color), as well as photographic illustrations selected by Edward Steichen. Only light rubbing to slipcase edges; book and original acetate, often not present, both fine. An excellent presentation copy, inscribed to a fellow officer.
Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$19374.07 + shipping
Description: One of just a few copies bound for personal presentation by Eisenhower, warmly inscribed on the half-title "For: Joseph H.S. Winne with best wishes and warm regard from his friend, Dwight D. Eisenhower". Winne was the Pennsylvania Railroad's passenger agent in Washington, responsible for making travel arrangements for many in the White House, presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy among them. These copies, which are bound from the limited-edition sheets, with the signed leaf of the D-Day message to the troops but without the limitation leaf, the copyright page stating "First Edition" not "First Trade Edition", were not part of the 30 or so "official" presentations bound in red morocco and destined for such as political leaders and insiders, or command-level military colleagues. They are from of a still smaller group made for Eisenhower for presentation at a more intimate level to members of his personal suite. As was the case with Churchill and The Second World War, Crusade in Europe made Eisenhower a rich man, "becoming one of the most widely translated and sold books of all time. It is often compared to Grant's memoirs as a classic of military writing" (ANB); The New York Times considering that it gave "the reader true insight into the most difficult part of a commander's life". A fine association copy of the rarest special edition of this important account. Octavo (238 × 155 mm). Contemporary presentation binding of blue crushed morocco, spine lettered in gilt, pinched flat raised bands with dotted roll gilt, framed by single gilt rules, SHAEF flaming crusader sword of liberation in gold and silver to the front cover, single fillet panel to both covers, stylized gilt floral roll to turn-ins, map endpapers printed in blue, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in original blue cloth plush-lined leather-entry slipcase with blue petersham extraction ribbon. Title page printed in sepia and black, 16 uncoloured plates from photographs (selected by Edward Steichen), 4 double-page maps printed in sepia and black, and 38 full-page maps in text. Spine sunned as often, covers rubbed, slight tanning to endpapers, but the contents otherwise near-fine, case with minimal external shelf-wear, plush interior a touch browned; overall, very good indeed.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$43750.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition preceding the trade edition. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. There were 1426 deluxe numbered copies SIGNED by the author on the facsimile page of the D-Day Order to send the troops to storm the beaches of Normandy, which begins: "You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you." Of those 1426 copies, the first 25 were bound in full red morocco leather and put aside for Eisenhower's personal use. This is Copy #4 and in addition to having the SIGNED order is INSCRIBED by the President to his brother on the limitation page: "For my brother Edgar,/In the hope that herein/he may find some small/thing to compensate him for/all the trouble caused him/by the soldier member of the/family, with lasting devotion./Ike." Edgar N. Eisenhower (19 January 1889 - 12 July 1971) was a lawyer and the older brother of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The two brothers were known as Big Ike (Edgar) and Little Ike (Dwight), with Edgar eventually dropping the nickname. While Dwight's golf game would garner a great deal of attention and he became a most important person in the transition of golf from play to a sport, Edgar was the much better golfer, winning tournaments over a 20 year span. Edgar was known as a shoot-from-the-hip ultraconservative and a vocal critic of his brother, the president. Edgar criticized Ike's budgets, policies, and judicial nominations. When the press asked Ike about the criticism, he smiled and responded that Edgar had been "criticizing me since I was 5 years old." Ike's touching inscription in this book, in just a few words, perfectly captures their relationship. Slight sunning to the spine, about Fine, lacking the slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.