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1997Best.-Nr. 038115New York Etc.: Free Press 1997. xiv 464p. b/w illus. dj. Free Press unknown books
1982Best.-Nr. RO60075052Doubleday & Company. 1982. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 500 pages. Illustré de nombreuses photos et cartes en noir et blanc hors texte. Jaquette légèrement abîmée.. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
1982Best.-Nr. 3295Doubleday 1982. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine in Archival Plastic Cover. A handsome First Edition so stated inscribed by the author on the half-title page "To Gene Crismon/With best wishes to a fellow history buff. These were my father's most important years./John Eisenhower/Sept. '87". Bound in blue cloth with gold titling the book is in overall near fine condition with touches of wear at the edges minor tiny spots on the top edge and a small ink mark on the bottom edge which features a colorful spotting design. The dustjacket is complete with the original price and shows only minor touches of wear protected by an archival plastic cover. 500 pp. with an extensive index. Doubleday unknown
1982Best.-Nr. P-07469Doubleday 1982. Hardcover. Fine/First Edition. Octavo. Signed. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR and warmly inscribed "to an old glider pilot" unnamed. Very few glider pilots survived the war as this was the most dangerous mode of invasion so the inscription is significant. Small nick at top edge of jacket; otherwise fine and unclipped in a Brodart cover. Doubleday hardcover
1982Best.-Nr. UEISALL01HMRDoubleday 1982. Very Good. Eisenhower John S. D. Allies: Pearl Harbor to D-Day. Garden City New York: Doubleday 1982. 500pp. Indexed. Bibliography. 8vo. Blue cloth with cartographic endsheets. Book condition: Very good with bumped edges and former owner's name stamped on bottom edge of text-block. Dust Jacket Condition: Good with chips and closed tears in edges of yellowed panels. Doubleday hardcover books
1982Best.-Nr. 57315Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company 1982. First Edition. Signed presentation from Eisenhower on the half-title page: "To CSM Robert H. Campitell Best regards to an old comrade-in-arms from the 358th CA. John Eisenhower." Robert H. Campitell 1927-2020 was a Command Sergeant Major of the U.S. Army and World War II veteran serving in the European Theatre of operations with over 44 years of active and reserve service. At age 65 he was recalled to active duty out of retirement to serve seven additional months in Operation Desert Storm. Among his many awards and decorations the highest was the Legion of Merit and the Legion of Honor. Thick 8vo. blue cloth in dust jacket; 500 pages. Illustrated. Very Good minor wear & minor bumping covers; contents clean & tight; little edgewear & browning d/j. Doubleday & Company unknown books
Best.-Nr. 64148hardcover. illus. 500pp. 8vo cloth d.w. Garden City 1982. unknown books
1982Best.-Nr. 6162New York [etc.] : Harper & Row, 1982. 465 pp. Gr. 8°. 1st ed. Orig. Cloth with gold-stamping on spine and DJ. (A Cornelia and Michael Bessie Book)
Best.-Nr. mon0004107807Easton Press. leather_bound. Very Good. . HEAVY. 9 out of 11 volumes missing only the two McPhearson volumes covering the Civil War. Full dark brown leather with vibrant gilt lettering and gilt embellishments. All edges gilt raised bands on spine. Most volumes have light dust wear and rubbing to spines a few spines the gilt titles have faded a bit otherwise a nice set. Pages/boards clean bindings tight. Easton Press hardcover
Best.-Nr. 25-11-03-old-126-jmEaston Press. leather_bound. Fair. 0x0x0. All 11 books. As pictured. Former owners bookplates inside. Some volumes cocked. Light wear. Seemingly unread. Easton Press hardcover
Best.-Nr. 1664431780.GaudioCD. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
2014Best.-Nr. Embry 176861Caliber 2014. Second printing. Remainder mark to lower edge else fine in fine dust jacket. Caliber, 2014. Second printing. unknown books
1952Best.-Nr. 64017Yokosuka Japan Guam & Honolulu T.H.: USS Helena United States Navy Nov. 24 1952 - Dec. 11 1952. 4to. 24 pp unpaginated. mylar sleeves w/ paper inserts and all holding photographs attached w/ plastic hinge at gutter margin with 25 original silver gelatin photos inserted sized from 4 x 5 in. up to 8 x 9 in. 3 signed by Dwight Eisenhower many w/ photographer’s markings at blank gutter margin some annotations in pen & pencil MS on versos 47 loose 4 x 5 in. photos inserted into rear compartment one folded pencil MS leaf on Royal Hawaiian letterhead “What a treasure! My class thinks these are simply great!! Thank you so much for letting us see them. G. Madden.” Padded brown full calf gilt decorated borders front cover silk pastedowns minor scuffing edgewear still a VG exemplar. This previously unknown album captures the brief moments of leisure onboard the USS Helena CA-75 of President-Elect Dwight D. Eisenhower following his historic mission to the Korean War battlefront in between shipboard foreign policy meetings with his proposed cabinet in December 1952. On October 24 1952 when General Dwight D. Eisenhower was leading in the polls as Republican candidate for President while serving as the Supreme Commander of NATO Ike announced he would “forego the diversions of politics and concentrate on the job of ending the Korean War. . . I shall go to Korea.” Nearing the end of 1952 the brutal War was entering its’ third winter U.S. casualties were over 25000 battlefield dead and the United States had been at War for eight of the past 11 years and he set himself the task of ending the War. Despite President Truman terming the trip as a gimmick Eisenhower secretly left the U.S. Nov. 29 1952 accompanied by Chief of Staff Omar Bradley and spent Dec. 2 1952 - Dec. 6 1952 viewing conditions on the ground wearing a fur-lined hat thermos boots and eating and interviewing enlisted soldiers and officers with his son John Eisenhower Omar Bradley and Admiral Radford. He quickly realized that the massive offensive being pushed by President Rhee would only result in another status quo and obliquely threatened China with possible Nuclear War as well as convincing Rhee that they would have to accept a division of Korea and find a solution for ceasefire. The album opens with signed photo of Eisenhower standing on the deck of the USS Helena followed by others including another signed image depicting him with his future cabinet including Charles Erwin Wilson future Secretary of Defense John Foster Dulles future Secretary of State Attorney General Herbert Brownell Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey and Secretary of the Interior Douglas James McKay former Oregon governor along with Admiral Arthur Radford and Captain James E. Cohn commander of the Helena. One of Ike’s favorite pastimes was trapshooting and four of the large 8 x 9 in. photos and over 20 depict him in this sequence of holding and shooting the shotgun as well as competing with others in the entourage. A few of the sequence Naval photographs depict him walking and talking with photojournalists interacting with USS Helena sailors and others. The USS Helena had been relieved of her normal duties Nov. 24 1952 for special mission carrying President-Elect Eisenhower along with other dignitaries and after leaving Yokosuka Harbor Japan she sailed to Guam by Dec. 3 where she picked up the party delivered onboard Ike’s preferred Navy Helicopter the Sikorsky H-5 Dragonfly HO3S-1 UP 39 Last Chance Taxi IV depicted in several photos here. The President-Elect Eisenhower’s delegation disembarked Dec. 11 1952 in Honolulu T.H.The shipboard Navy photographers were John W. Wahlborg and Clarence Wayne Newland 1924-2009 who used two of these images for the 1953 USS Helena cruise book see p. 76 which have also included here many different photographs of the USS Helena at Yokosuka Japan with two of the images indicating their visit coincided with the flight operations of the Essex-Class carrier USS Oriskany CVA-34 depicted in photos with her full complement of Corsairs and folded wings on deck as well as an unidentified Carrier. Many of the photos also depict the UP 39 Sikorsky helicopter flying across the harbor and onto the deck of the USS Helena with giant US Flag painted on the deck. Following their cruise to Honolulu the USS Helena subsequently traveled to Long Beach CA for celebrations and then was a featured guest at the Portland Oregon Rose Festival festivities in May-June 1953. The trip was especially significant in that Eisenhower was able to convince both President Rhee and Secretary of State Dulles that compromise was necessary and after over 7000 additional casualties approximately the same amount as suffered by U.S. Armed Forces in post-9/11 war operations including Iraq and Afghanistan over 25 years the armistice was signed under the Eisenhower administration July 27 1953. See: USS Helena CA-75 1953 Cruise Book Kobe Japan Issinsha Printing Co.; USS Oriskany CVA-34 Action Report 2 December 1952 through 27 December 1952 January 9 1953 US Navy Fleet Operations San Francisco CA; President-Elect Eisenhower’s Trip to Korea Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial National Park Service 2025. USS Helena, United States Navy, unknown
1953Best.-Nr. 425891New London Connecticut: General Dynamics Electric Boat 1953. Unbound. Near Fine. A collection of 50 black and white press photographs of the U.S.S. Nautilus measuring 8" x 10". Additionally included are a newspaper clipping and two programs discussing the ship. All items near fine with some edgewear. An archive of photographs and programs following the construction and later christening of the U.S.S. Nautilus the first nuclear powered submarine. The photographs are part of the public relations branch of General Dynamics Corporation's Electric Boat Division which was responsible for constructing the ship. A brochure from 1952 when construction began is entitled "The Beginning of an Era" and according to a printed note from the Chairman was "prepared to commemorate an occasion significant in history - the first application of atomic power to propulsion - in a submarine now to help preserve the peace." It continues "I am sure you share my pride that the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation was selected for this most important undertaking and I hope that you will find interest and pleasure in this brochure as a memento of the keel laying." The earliest photographs depict the keeling process and early construction including a photo of President Truman from the keel laying ceremony. In 1954 when the submarine was completed the christening ceremony was conducted by Mamie Eisenhower. A program from this ceremony is also featured here along with professional photographs from the event. The introduction of the program reads "January 21 1954 lives in history as the launching day of the world's first atomic powered vessel the submarine "Nautilus.'" It continues "we are particularly honored to have as our sponsor the First Lady of the Land Mrs. Dwight David Eisenhower." The photos show Mamie arriving by train the crowds surrounding the submarine and Mamie holding a bottle of champagne for the christening. One of these photos shows Mamie in a fur coat with the president of the Electric Boat Division showing her where to break the champagne bottle. Other images show the launched submarine departing the dock and Mamie touching the hands of people in the crowd and handing roses to children. The use of nuclear propulsion allowed the vessel to stay submerged longer and thus it was able to travel to places "previously beyond the limits of submarines." In August of 1958 it was the first vessel to complete a "submerged transit of the North Pole." According to the National Park Service "Nautilus was decommissioned in 1980 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1982." An interesting collection detailing the early days of the first atomic powered submarine. General Dynamics Electric Boat unknown
Best.-Nr. 344736/4/45. “It is always encouraging to be reassured that the people at home are 100% behind us and appreciate the sacrifices of our troops.” General Dwight D. Eisenhower the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe orchestrated the defeat of Germany’s Third Reich during World War II. He could only have done so with the support of the American people for which he was eternally grateful and of his courageous soldiers many of whom were killed in action. April 1945 saw the war in Europe in its final weeks with intense fighting and many significant events. These included the continuing bloody Allied invasion of Germany and the Battle of Berlin and Soviet advance into that city. As Allied forces in the West closed in they liberated concentration camps like Bergen-Belsen. April was also marked by the execution of Benito Mussolini suicide of Adolf Hitler and on April 12 the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. On May 8 V-E Day the war in Europe would come to an end. While his role as a military leader was crucial to the war’s outcome Eisenhower was equally important in the documentation of Nazi brutality and the truth of the Holocaust. This was an important aspect of April 1945 for him. On April 4 the Third United States Army liberated the Ohrdruf camp. That camp was an extension of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. On the day of liberation the SS members of Ohrdruf evacuated many of the prisoners on death marches. As U.S. troops arrived they found scenes of mass murder while also coming into contact with the camp’s surviving prisoners. The living prisoners were starving emaciated and desperately needed medical attention. Eisenhower along with Generals George Patton and Omar Bradley visited the Ohrdruf concentration camp personally on April 12 1945. While driving towards the camp the smell of decaying flesh was present and dead bodies littered the streets. Eisenhower was “never so angry in my life” stating that the “English language didn’t even have words that could describe” what he saw. Eisenhower wrote to Winston Churchill following his time at Ohrdruf stating that “everything you read in the paper does not adequately describe what has really happened here.” Thus in April 1945 Eisenhower was profoundly impacted by the horrors that he witnessed and demanded that newspaper editors representative groups German civilians and Allied soldiers bear witness. Typed letter signed on his Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force letterhead Germany April 6 1945 just two days after the taking of Ohrdruf and six days before his famous visit there to Mrs. Mamie Metz thanking her and the American people for their support of the army in the field and appreciation of its sacrifices. “Many thanks for your interesting letter. It is always encouraging to be reassured that the people at home are 100% behind us and appreciate the sacrifices of our troops. My thanks also for your good wishes to me and all my command.” An important statement showing Eisenhower’s feelings about the American people’s sustaining and backing the army and gratitude for the sacrifices of the soldiers issued right near the end of World War II in Europe. Some trimming and evidence of past mounting on verso. <img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /> unknown
1967Best.-Nr. 537550Doubleday. Good/Good. 1967. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Hard Cover. 0071564373 J457 good hardcover with a good dust wrapper . Doubleday hardcover
1967Best.-Nr. BR-1117-277Hardcover. 400 pp. Doubleday New York 1967. First Edition stated on CP. Book is in Fine condition with no markings inside or out except for previous owner's gift inscription on FFEP. Clean black cloth boards and block edges. Price-clipped DJ is in Good condition with several small chips and closed tears mostly along top edge. More photos upon request. Shipped in a box within a box in bubble wrap with a tracking number. Doubleday hardcover
1967Best.-Nr. 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. 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
1967Best.-Nr. 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
1967Best.-Nr. FRANCE-0045-07-11-2026Doubleday & Company Inc 1967. hardcover. Good. 6x5x1. 1967 Used hardcover copy with dust jacket price tag clipped no markings stickers some minor wear/tears plus sunning to dj and pages with age. fast shipping with tracking number. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover
1967Best.-Nr. 569538Doubleday & Company Inc. 1967. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition First Printing. Published by Doubleday & Company Inc. 1967. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good with some shelf/edgewear. Previous owner name on pastedown. Tear along dust jacket back. Ex-library copy. Has typical library markings. Doubleday & Company, Inc. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 7076Doubleday/Garden City New York. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 1st Printing 400 pp. Book/dust jacket condition: Fine/na missing. 1st/First Ed. 1st/First Printing FE. All orders are processed and shipped from MI or WI USA. Doubleday/Garden City, New York hardcover
1967Best.-Nr. 011300Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company Inc. First edition first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company Inc. 1967. 8vo. viii400pp. illus frontis plate. Black cloth with gilt spine titles. Short inscription on flyleaf. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a trace of fray at the top edge. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1967. Doubleday & Company, Inc. hardcover
Best.-Nr. S18.ATEASE.9.30.18Doubleday. Hardcover. B0006BQH1E 1st Edition 1967 Doubleday & Co. Publishing. Book is in very good condition dustcover has a little edge wear but still in very good condition. Customer service is our #1 priority. We sell great books at great prices with super fast shipping and free tracking. . Very Good. Doubleday hardcover
1967Best.-Nr. 1643Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company Inc 1967. First Edition stated presumed first printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. viii 400 2 pages. Frontis illustration. Notes. Index. Some soiling to DJ and endpapers. Some DJ wear scuff tears and chips to edges. Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14 1890 - March 28 1969 was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe and achieved the five-star rank as General of the Army. Eisenhower planned and supervised two of the most consequential military campaigns of World War II: Operation Torch in the North Africa campaign in 1942-1943 and the D-Day invasion of Normandy in 1944. After the war he served as Army Chief of Staff 1945-1948 as president of Columbia University 1948-1953 and as the first Supreme Commander of NATO 1951-1952. In 1952 Eisenhower entered the presidential race as a Republican to block the isolationist foreign policies of Senator Robert A. Taft who opposed NATO and wanted no foreign entanglements. Eisenhower won that election and the 1956 election in landslides both times defeating Adlai Stevenson II. Following the presidency Eisenhower moved to the place where he and Mamie had spent much of their post-war time a working farm adjacent to the battlefield at Gettysburg Pennsylvania. In December 1999 he was listed on Gallup's List of Most Widely Admired People of the 20th century. President Eisenhower here tells a number of stories for the simple pleasure of telling them. In warm and personal terms he writes about his life his acquaintances both celebrated and little known and the history that unfolded before his eyes. In anecdote after anecdote we learn about life at West Point in turn-of-the-century Kansas in an "ordinary" but remarkable family. His storytelling suggests what it was like to grow up and go to school at a time when the wild west had just become the rural west when the frontier was his home town. It awakened the dreams of adventure in a boy's imagination--and carried him from the wrong side of the tracks in Abilene to the leadership of a great alliance and military expedition a great university and a great nation. The young Eisenhower's dreams he thought could probably best be realized at Annapolis. And yet--through a fortuitous turn of events--the future naval officer settled in at West Point. This is a chronicle that now belongs to history and the author has done his duty in CRUSADE IN EUROPE MANDATE FOR CHANGE and WAGING PEACE THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS. This book is written for fun--as he remembers his tour of duty in the Canal Zone life with his young wife Mamie and how on patrol in the tropical terrain he was tutored in Clausewitz Tacitus and Plato by his mentor a little known and wonderful general named Fox Conner. He recalls his first encounter with a spirited colonel George Patton and his appointment later as aide to the already controversial general Douglas MacArthur. Roosevelt Churchill Zhukov Marshall Bradley SHAPE TORCH Columbia NATO--the men and events and institutions that have become household words are touched upon here and illuminated as are the lesser known people and places in a peaceful man's peacetime existence. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover
