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réf. 267686Printed leaflet printed on both sides. WG12 lower left. Two binder hole punches at top margin light edgewear. Printed leaflet printed on both sides. WG12 lower left. In this proclamation to the people of Germany from 1945 Eisenhower declares that "The Allied Forces serving under my command have now entered Germany. We come as conquerors but not as oppressors.We shall overthrow the Nazi rule dissolve the Nazi Party and abolish the cruel oppressive and discriminatory laws and institutions which the Party has created. We shall eradicate that German Militarism which has so often disrupted the peace of the world" In this edict Eisenhower suspends all German courts and educational institutions within the occupied territory and instructs all German officials employees and workers to remain at their posts until further notice. With Churchill and FDR's statements on "über Deutschlands Zukunft" "on Germany's future" on the verso. Not in Cohen unknown books
1963réf. 210932Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company Inc 1963. First Trade edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth. Very good. First Trade edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Great Association Copy. Inscribed on half-title "By one of the greatest men I ever knew to the greatest man I ever knew Bruce Barton from Alex F. Osborn." Bruce Barton 1886-1967 is considered by many to be one of the most influential advertising men of the 20th century. He was not your ordinary adman - religious author Congressman founder of the advertising agency BBDO creator of Betty Crocker. The interesting yet complicated life of this man illustrates the complexity of the creative mind. A mind that was not limited to one endeavor but found a way to apply similar skills and abilities to a multitude of opportunities. Despite all of his other accomplishments he is still remembered first and foremost as an adman. In a fictional novel based on BBDO The Virgin Queene the Bruce Barton character named Barnham Dunn tried to explain his success Alex F. Osborn was born in New York City May 241888 graduated Ph.B. in 1909 and Ph.M. in1921 at Hamilton College. Meanwhile he worked as a reporter for the Buffalo N.Y. Times in 1909 and for the Buffalo Express during the following two years. He was assistant secretary of the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce in 1911-12 and sales manager of the Hard Manufacturing Co. Buffalo from 1912 to 1915. In the latter year he entered the field of advertising as manager of the E. P Remington Advertising Co. Buffalo. During World War I he worked as a volunteer for the United War Work campaign and there met another young writer Bruce Barton. He was married in Buffalo Sept. 51916 to Helen daughter of Edward Emerson Coatsworth of the city a lawyer and had five children: Katharine Joan Marion Russell Bartonand Elinor. n 1919 Alex Osborn found the advertising agency of Barton Durstine and Osborn New York City with Bruce Barton and Roy Durstine. In 1928 the firm was merged with the George Batten Co. to formBatten Barton Durstine & Osborn. Inc. A partner in the original firm Osborn was named vice-president of the newly merged agency. Advanced to executive vice-president and general manager in 1939 he became vice-chairman of the board in 1946. In 1957 he became a member of the executive committee and he served in both posts until his retirement in 1960. Doubleday & Company, Inc unknown books
réf. 264157No place nd. 1 vols. In 11 3/4" x 14 3/4" frame. Fine. Framed and glazed. 1 vols. In 11 3/4" x 14 3/4" frame. From the Estate of actor Robert Montgomery. unknown books
1967réf. 257592Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company Inc 1967. First edition. Frontispiece photograph of Eisenhower's parents. 400 pp. 1 vols. Black cloth glassine. First edition. Frontispiece photograph of Eisenhower's parents. 400 pp. 1 vols. From Uncle Ike. Inscribed on special label "At Ease/ Published June 16 1967/ Gettysburgh Pennsylvania." Tipped in "For: Milton S. Eisenhower Jr/ with warm regards/ Uncle Ike. Doubleday & Company, Inc unknown books
1962réf. 247360Stonihurst 1962. 10 lines in ink. 1 vols. 4to. Fine. In white linen chemise. 10 lines in ink. 1 vols. 4to. "All well but we need rain". "Delighted to welcome you Aug 17th or 18th - Will have other guests here too but always room for you - Have a new cat & a new puppy 2 months old so be prepared! "All well but we need rain - "Much love from "DDE". unknown books
1948réf. 246019New York: Doubleday & Company 1948. Carbon copy typescript 23 chapters. 2 vols. 4to. In black morocco-grained cloth binders. Some rust and small tears from paper clips at margins else near fine. Carbon copy typescript 23 chapters. 2 vols. 4to. Carbon copy typescript of Eisenhower's memoir of the WWII European campaign Crusade in Europe. With a note from Bill Robinson Vice-President of the Herald Tribune giving this typescript to Doug Black President of Doubleday the book's publisher. It was by Robinson's insistence that Eisenhower wrote these memoirs. The typescript differs little from the first published edition with the following edits being the most significant: Chapters 16 and 17 in the typescript "Pursuit" and "Battle of Supply" are arranged with slight modification in the published edition as "Pursuit and the Battle of Supply" chapter 16 and "Autumn Fighting of Germany's Frontier" chapter 17. Chapters 22 and 23 "Europe after V-E Day" and "Russia" are also re-arranged in the published edition as "Victory's Aftermath" chapter 22 "Operation Study" chapter 23 and "Russia" chapter 24. The final paragraph of the typescript does not appear in the published edition and is replaced by an eight paragraph discussion of the merits of democracy in facing the growing threat of Communism. After a gentlemen's agreement on Dec 30 1947 Eisenhower began work on the first draft of Crusade in Europe completing it March 29 1948. This draft was finished July 4 of that year and a final typescript now at Columbia University was produced before the book was published in the fall of 1948. Provenance: Bill Robinson; Doug Black Doubleday & Company unknown books
1973réf. 238994Houston Texas: Privately printed 1973. No. 13 of 30 copies. 2 27 pp.; 88 ff. facsimiles of correspondence; 127 pp. transcript of interview. 1 vols. 8vo. Black buckram titled in silver. Bottom corners bumped else fine. No. 13 of 30 copies. 2 27 pp.; 88 ff. facsimiles of correspondence; 127 pp. transcript of interview. 1 vols. 8vo. Eisenhower's National Security Advisor Recalls 'Ike'. "The searing candor which he brought to every issue bespoke his basic honesty." Memoir of Dillon Anderson's long association with President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Anderson was Eisenhower's Special Assistant for National Security Affairs in 1955-1956 a post created by Eisenhower: "not exactly household words then. In recent years Henry Kissinger has enlarged considerably the scope and visibility of the role." The memoir is organized in four parts: first the "principal elements" of talks on Eisenhower that Anderson gave in early 1972; second facsimiles of their correspondence from early 1950 through 1969; third a facsimile of Eisenhower's handwritten notes when he articulated the Open Skies Proposal at the Four Power Summit in Geneva 1955; and fourth the transcript of a substantial interview with Anderson conducted by John Luter of the Columbia University Oral History Project. Inscribed from the author "For Mary and Norris Darrell with appreciation and affection Sincerely Dillon Anderson Sept. 1973". Privately printed unknown books
réf. 37379n.p. n.d. Image 10 x 8 Inches. 1 vols. Framed and glazed. Image 10 x 8 Inches. 1 vols. Inscribed Photograph of Eisenhower. Portrait is inscribed on photo's lower margin: "For Gertrude Hess Parker/with best wishes from/Dwight Eisenhower. unknown books
1974réf. 4575bdGarden City: Doubleday 1974. First Edition. Inscribed and signed “To Andy Low / Thanks for being / one of the cast of / characters - // Best regards / John Eisenhower.” Also laid-in is a 14-line typed letter on personal letterhead addressed to Low dated 8/28/1989. The letter mentions the brief meetings of the two over the decades and invites Low for a visit. Octavo cloth xiv 412 pp. Photos. The son of President Eisenhower John Eisenhower served as a young officer in WWII an aide in the White House and Ambassador to Belgium among other experiences. The book is inscribed to Andrew S. Low a fellow cadet at West Point whom is mentioned extensively on pages 36-39. Major General Low later became director of aerospace programs for the Air Force. The book is in Near-Fine condition in a chipped dust jacket and with the letter laid-in. Doubleday, 1974. First Edition. hardcover books
1948réf. 51323Kobenhavn. : Eiler Wangels. 1948. Half textured brown leather over marbled boards raised bands gilt spine title speckled edges. . Very good upper corner rubbed front outer hinge beginning to split ink name to second endpaper still an attractive copy with near fine contents. 25.5x17 cm. . Danish text. Translated from the English version of Eisenhower’s popular “Crusade in Europe” Heavy book may require extra shipping. weight: 3.3 lb. Numerous maps numerous photo illustrations by Edward Steichen. Eiler Wangels. hardcover books
réf. JD30941first edition. Garden City Doubleday 1948 first edition dust jacket. Hardcover. With publisher's slipcase TEG it precedes the trade edition this is No. 322 of 1426 copies Signed by Eisenhower map endpapers includes six color maps and 38 b&w maps also includes six photographic illustrations selected by Edward Steichen as well as Eisenhower's famous D-Day order to his troops about to storm the beaches at Normandy. Fine beautiful copy in like jacket in a very good slipcase. hardcover books
1948réf. 1409514Doubleday 1948. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good early edition inscribed by Eisenhower. In a very good price clipped dust jacket. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Doubleday hardcover books
1963réf. 290835Garden City: Doubleday 1963. hardcover. very good/very good. 342 pages. 8vo. grey cloth chipped and sunned wrapper; corners lightly bumped. Garden City NY: Doubleday 1963. A very good copy in a very good wrapper. Inscribed by the author on flyleaf: "For my friend John Diebold with best wishes and esteem Milton S. Eisenhower 1967". With Diebold's personal library stamp. Doubleday unknown books
1963réf. 23199New York: Doubleday & Company 1963. First edition. Cloth. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. xiv 342 pp. 8vo. Doubleday & Company hardcover books
1946réf. 59833451946. First Edition. good. Bank note signed by Dwight Eisenhower and Tom Davis a member of Eisenhower's staff for Alfred E. Patch a pilot in Alaska on August 6th 1946 in Nome. These signatures appear on the reverse of a 1936 $1 Silver Certificate. On the obverse are an additional 7 signatures dated Dec 1946. It is accompanied by Patch's pilot's log which has entries starting in April 1946 and ending in September 1973 with a laid-in note in rear. Eisenhower toured Alaska after the war to review the troops as the Cold War was ramping up. Alaska was an important bulwark against possible Soviet aggression at the time. Photographs from this trip can be found in the Cecil H. Kornegay Photography Collection held in Alaska's Digital Archive. A short snorter is a bank note signed by members of a group traveling or meeting together and used to memorialize the occasion. When departing each person would sign the bill. When you next met them you were to produce the note. If you could not show them you owed them a drink or "snort." The tradition was started by bush pilots in Alaska in the 1920s and spread with the growth of aviation culminating with the extensive use during WWII. books
1970réf. 185180Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1970. Hardcover. VG- ex-library with labels and stamps on spine block inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Pages are otherwise clean and clear. Nine volume set ound in blue cloth with black title blocks and gilt lettering on spines; illustrations facsimiles maps and portraits. 9 volumes of a 21 volume set. This includes Volumes 1 through 9. v. 1-5. The war years -- v. 6. Occupation 1945 --v. 7-9. The chief of staff. Johns Hopkins Press hardcover books
1989réf. 2308716New York: Pocket Books 1989. 1st Printing. 1st Printing. Very Good. 1st printing. Faint edge wear. 1989 Trade Paperback. Foreword by David Eisenhower. A collection of poignant letters from World War II servicemen to their loved ones providing a personalized historical account of what being in the war was really like. Pocket Books unknown books
1951réf. 10813Boston: Samuel Ward Stationery 1951. Guest Book. Full leather. Very good. The Guest Book from President Harry Truman's "Air Force One" featuring signatures from President Harry S. Truman General Dwight D. Eisenhower Representative John F. Kennedy Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his assistant Indira Nehru Ga. Octavo 125pp. Full blue leather title stamped in gilt on cover. Housed in custom blue leather clamshell title on cover over red morocco label. This book is from the private collection of the pilot Colonel Chester C. Moomaw. Includes ephemera from Colonel Moomaw. The plane used for these trips was a Lockheed Constellation under the designation of SAM 8608. Notable flights include: Wake Island 1950 Independence MO 1949 New Delhi 1949 Berlin 1949 Little White House in Key West 1950 and Santiago 1950. An exceptional piece includes the signatures of three US Presidents as well as various US Cabinet secretaries chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Prime Ministers of India and numerous other dignitaries. Signed by the following dignitaries with their contemporary title: Harry Truman President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower President of Columbia University John F. Kennedy House Representative Jawaharlal Nehru Prime Minister of India Indira Nehru Gandhi Assistant to Prime Minister of India George C. Marshall Secretary of Defense Dean Acheson Secretary of State Dean Rusk Assistant Secretary of State Omar Bradley Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Hap Arnold General of the Air Force Andrew Goodpaster General of the Army Matthew Ridgway General of the Army Forrest Sherman Chief of Naval Operations Frank Pace Secretary of the Army Stuart Symington Secretary of the Air Force Louis A. Johnson Secretary of Defense J. Lawton Collins Chief of Staff Army James Fulbright Senator Warren Magnuson Senator Stephen T. Early White House Press Secretary Averell Harriman Special Assistant to the President Hoyt Vandenberg Chief of Staff Air Force Margaret Truman Daughter of President Truman Stephen J. Springarn Administrative Assistant to the President Clark M. Clifford White House Counsel Vannevar Bush Engineer Arthur Vandenberg Senator-President Pro Tempore Charles W. Sawyer Secretary of Commerce Gabriel Gonzalez Videla President of Chile Bernard Baruch Presidential Adviser. Samuel Ward Stationery unknown books
1948réf. 10295Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1948. First Edition / Limited Edition. Cloth. Fine/near fine. Signed limited edition of Crusade in Europe by Dwight D. Eisenhower. Octavo xiv 559pp tan buckram gilt title over black on spine. Illustrated endpapers. Top edge gilt uncut edges. In original glassine jacket with light toning to spine and some wear along top edge. Previous ownership stamp on front endpaper. In publisher's slipcase reinforced at hinges with tape repairs and some staples very stable. This book is a limited edition of 1426 copies signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. This is number 965 of 1426. From the collection of the Honorable Donnald K. Anderson Clerk of the US House of Representatives from 1987 to1995. Mr. Anderson was a longtime resident of Capitol Hill where he worked in the House of Representatives from 1960 to 1995. He was baptized Catholic in 1979 with his Godparents being an illustrious group including Tip O'Neill Dan Rostenkowski and John W. McCormack. He died in 2020. Doubleday & Company unknown books
1976réf. 10273New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1976. Book Club Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty by Peter Collier and David Horowitz from the personal library of First Lady Mamie Eisenhower. Octavo 746pp. Black cloth title in gilt on spine. A book club edition with embossed mark on back panel. Clean text throughout previously read solid text block. In publisher's dust jacket some wear at hinges closed tears along top edge a very good example. Signed on the half title Nancy Johnson in Mamie Eisenhower's hand. Includes a note from the desk of Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower: "February 21 1977 / Dear Nancy - Thank you for letting me keep 'The Rockefellers' book so long - Many interesting passages to me - MDE." A unique association copy. After the death of President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1969 Mamie Eisenhower continued to reside at their home in Gettysburg PA. As her health began to suffer she moved to an apartment in Washington DC to be closer to family. She died in 1979 two years after reading this book. Holt, Rinehart and Winston unknown books
1945réf. 2746Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1945. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/near fine. Signed first edition of Soldier of Democracy by Kenneth S. Davis the first biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower and only known copy signed by Eisenhower. Octavo x 566pp. Green cloth title in gilt on spine cloth worn and rubbed on all panels. Stated "first edition" on copyright page. Illustrated endpapers previous ownership blind stamp on last leaf of text. Housed in custom blue cloth clamshell case title in gilt on spine over red morocco label. In publisher's first state dust jacket $3.50 on front flap toning to spine bright illustrations on all panels a near fine example. Inscribed on the half title: "Dear Mr. Cary This is for your collection with best wishes. Sincerely Dwight D. Eisenhower. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc unknown books
1914réf. 2365New York: Oxford University Press 1914. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. Inscribed first edition of Columbia by Frederick Keppel from the personal library of Eisenhower's speech writer Kevin McCann. Octavo xvi 297pp. Green cloth title in gilt on sides and front cover. Top edge gilt. Some wear at hinge of spine stable text block. Light wear from handling at edges of spine. Inscribed by Kevin McCann on the front free endpaper: "This book was bought by me in late 1947 that I might brief Dwight Eisenhower on what Columbia had been before he had its Presidency in mind. Kevin McCann. October 21 1976." Additional signature of Kevin McCann on title page. A unique historical association copy with Eisenhower's time as the president of Columbia University being met with criticism that he was an "absentee president." Kevin McCann met future President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1946 while he was serving as Army Chief of Staff at the Pentagon. McCann followed General Eisenhower to Columbia University in 1948 then to Paris when Eisenhower was appointed the Supreme Allied Commander. In Paris McCann served as special assistant to the General assisting in the preparation of his influential memoirs Crusade in Europe. McCann was appointed President of Defiance College in 1951 but soon took a leave of absence to follow Eisenhower to the White House as a speech writer. When President Eisenhower retired to Gettysburg PA McCann and his wife moved to the Eisenhower farm to serve as Special Assistant to the former president helping to write his memoirs. Oxford University Press unknown books
2003réf. 1789New York: Free Press 2003. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. First edition of General Ike: A Personal Reminiscences by his son John S.D. Eisenhower. Octavo xxi 277pp. Hardcover with title on spine. Publishers dust jacket price clipped near fine condition. Inscribed by the author to "uncommon patriots John Eisenhower. June 15 2003. Free Press hardcover books
2001réf. 266890New York: Free Press 2001. First. hardcover. very good-/very good. Illus. 8vo 1/2 maroon cloth d.w. cloth and boards lightly soiled. New York: Free Press 2001. Free Press unknown books
1959réf. 1394Paris: USIS/Ambassade des États-Unis 1959. First Edition First Printing. Oblong 16mo 6 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches 160 x 130 mm 19 1 pages in stapled white wrappers. Wrappers a bit soiled and showing a little edge wear interior pages clean and bright. A Very Good or better copy. Text of an address by President Dwight Eisenhower on March 16 1959 about the growing crisis in Berlin. French text issued by the U.S. Information Service and the U.S. Embassy in Paris. The Soviets had demanded Western forces pull out of West Berlin a demand rejected by the U.S. Britain and France. In his speech Eisenhower says that the crisis was provoked by the Soviet Union and that the West must confront Soviet imperialism. "We shall continue to exercise our right of peaceful passage to and from West Berlin" he says. "We will not be the first to breach the peace. It is the Soviets who threaten the use of force to interfere with such free passage. We are ready to participate fully in every sincere effort at negotiation that will respect the existing rights of all and their opportunity to live in peace." Page 10 translated from the French. OCLC WorldCat shows three institutional holdings all in France. No other copies in commerce as of July 27 2017. A rare bit of Cold War ephemera. RARE. USIS/Ambassade des États-Unis unknown books
