[Rarebooks] FS: Eisenhower: Another brother, another Crusade

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EISENHOWER, Dwight. CRUSADE IN EUROPE Inscribed to his brother Edgar. 
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948. First Edition. First 
Edition preceding the trade edition. Illustrated with drawings and 
photographs. There were 1426 deluxe numbered copies SIGNED by the author 
on the facsimile page of the D-Day Order to send the troops to storm the 
beaches of Normandy, which begins: "You are about to embark upon the 
Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes 
of the world are upon you." Of those 1426 copies, the first 25 were 
bound in full red morocco leather and put aside for Eisenhower's 
personal use. This is Copy #4 and in addition to having the SIGNED order 
is INSCRIBED by the President to his brother on the limitation page: 
"For my brother Edgar,/In the hope that herein/he may find some 
small/thing to compensate him for/all the trouble caused him/by the 
soldier member of the/family, with lasting devotion./Ike." Slight 
sunning to the spine, about Fine, lacking the slipcase.

Edgar N. Eisenhower (19 January 1889 - 12 July 1971) was a lawyer and 
the older brother of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The two brothers were known 
as Big Ike (Edgar) and Little Ike (Dwight), with Edgar eventually 
dropping the nickname. While Dwight's golf game would garner a great 
deal of attention and he became a most important person in the 
transition of golf from play to a sport, Edgar was the much better 
golfer, winning tournaments over a 20 year span. Edgar was known as a 
shoot from the hip ultraconservative and a vocal critic of his brother, 
the president. Edgar criticized Ike's budgets, policies, and judicial 
nominations. When the press asked Ike about the criticism, he smiled and 
responded that Edgar had been "criticizing me since I was 5 years old." 
Ike's touching inscription in this book, in just a few words, perfectly 
captures their relationship. (#016960)        $35,000.00

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