AFTERNOON SESSION
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1995
AT 2:00 P.M.
(Lots 237-384)
BOOKS
EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D. Crusade in Europe. Garden City, 1948. 8vo, full blue morocco gilt, front cover with inlaid morocco and gilt sword design on front cover, t.e.g., others uncut, spine slightly darkened; cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, one of an unspecified number of specially bound copies (for presentation?) signed by Eisenhower at the bottom of facsimile of the D-Day Order of the Day, this copy additionally inscribed by Eisenhower on the dedication page: "For - Mildred Hilson - With best wishes for a Merry Christmas from her devoted friend Dwight Eisenhower 1964."
Details
EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D. Crusade in Europe. Garden City, 1948. 8vo, full blue morocco gilt, front cover with inlaid morocco and gilt sword design on front cover, t.e.g., others uncut, spine slightly darkened; cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, one of an unspecified number of specially bound copies (for presentation?) signed by Eisenhower at the bottom of facsimile of the D-Day Order of the Day, this copy additionally inscribed by Eisenhower on the dedication page: "For - Mildred Hilson - With best wishes for a Merry Christmas from her devoted friend Dwight Eisenhower 1964."
[With:] WILLKIE, WENDELL L. One World. New York, 1943. 8vo, original black cloth; quarter morocco slipcase. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed and signed by Willkie on front flyleaf: "To Mildred S. Hilson When picking a White House Staff How could I but laugh For I get them as pleasing as you without going with the sock Thus greatly pleasing the economy Block. Wendell L. Willkie." [With:] A signed Christmas card laid-in. (2)
[With:] WILLKIE, WENDELL L. One World. New York, 1943. 8vo, original black cloth; quarter morocco slipcase. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed and signed by Willkie on front flyleaf: "To Mildred S. Hilson When picking a White House Staff How could I but laugh For I get them as pleasing as you without going with the sock Thus greatly pleasing the economy Block. Wendell L. Willkie." [With:] A signed Christmas card laid-in. (2)