PRESENTATION COPY, SIGNED BY EISENHOWER TO A MASTER SERGEANT OF THE AIR FORCE

EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Crusade in Europe. Garden City: Doubleday, 1948. Octavo, original tan cloth, cartographic endpapers, original dust jacket. $3200.

First trade edition, with numerous illustrations and maps, including four double-page color maps of the European theatre and battlefields, presentation copy stamped on the half title: "For M/Sgt [Master Sergeant] Robert C. Burlingame, USAF, with best wishes," signed beneath "Dwight D. 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 photographs selected by Edward Steichen. Preceded the same year by a signed limited edition of 1426 copies. Bookplate of recipient, with his ink stamp on the half title and rear free endpaper.

Interior clean, corners bumped, spine lettering rubbed; light edge-wear and rubbing to dust jacket. A very good signed copy.