[Rarebooks] FS: Douglas MacArthur Inscribed to Thomas Edison's son

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MACARTHUR, Douglas] WHITNEY, Major General Courtney  MACARTHUR. HIS 
RENDEZVOUS WITH HISTORY  New York Knopf 1956. Fine in a Near Fine 
slightly soiled, price-clipped dustwrapper. Account of Macarthur's 
life from his time in the Philippines through the surrender of Japan 
to his recall from the Korean War and what he did afterward. SIGNED by 
Macarthur on the front free endpaper below which Whitney has SIGNED 
and INSCRIBED "with cordial regard" to Governor Charles Edison, son of 
Thomas Edison and governor of New Jersey. First Edition.  $1250

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