BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 70 “The Hopes And Prayers Of Liberty-Loving People Everywhere March With You” 101EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Crusade in Europe. Garden City, 1948. Thick octavo, original tan linen, acetate, slipcase. $8000 Signed limited first edition, one 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.A fine copy in a mildly worn slipcase. Patton’s Thrice-Signed Copy Of A Treatise On Historical Weaponry 102(PATTON, George S.) BOUTELL, Charles. Arms and Armour in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. London, 1902. Octavo, original blue cloth gilt, custom clamshell box. $12,500 General George S. Patton’s signed, annotated copy of this authoritative work on weaponry from ancient times to modern, signed by him in ink three times, with his autograph annotations. Patton’s love of historical weaponry and pageantry continued throughout his life—at one point, he and his wife attended a ball in costume as Arthur and Guinevere—and in 1932, while studying at the Army War College, he purchased and read this copy of Boutell’s classic reference work on armor and weapons. Signed three times by Patton, as he often would with his books: on the front free endpaper, in full on the front cover and last name only on the spine; also with Patton’s occasional annotations and marks of emphasis. Mild offsetting to frontispiece and title page; binding lightly worn overall, spine slightly toned with small rubs at ends. A very good signed copy.
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