Inscribed to Tom Butler from "his devoted friend"
The White House Years: Mandate for Change, 1953–1956, and Waging Peace, 1956–1961.
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
New York: Doubleday, 1963, 1965.
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$12,500.00
About the item
Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photog. Limited editions, both no. 1231 of 1,434 copies signed by the author (1,500 the entire edition), the first volume inscribed on the colophon. xx, 650 pp; xxiv, 741 pp. 2 vols. Thick 8vo. Both light tan buckram, with Presidential seal stamped in gilt on upper front boards; stamped in olive and gilt on spine; decorative map endpapers; first volume uncut. Fine copies with original acetate jackets, in original publisher's slipcases with affixed printed labels; some shelf wear and sunning to slipcases.
Item #376916
Eisenhower's two-volume memoir of his time in the White House, issued two years apart in 1963 and 1965.
Both volumes of these limited editions are numbered the same, however, indicating some forethought on the part of Eisenhower when presenting them to his close friend Thomas B. Butler, a Baltimore banking and railroad executive who was a frequent playing partner of Eisenhower's at Augusta National Golf Club, where both were long-time members. Each man has a lodge named after them on the Augusta course, with Butler Cabin being the site where the winner of each year's Masters Tournament receives his iconic green blazer.
Eisenhower's formal signature appears on the first blanks of the books (in the first volume on a tipped-in leaf), and he additionally inscribed Mandate for Change to Butler on the colophon: "For Tom Butler — / with the best wishes and warm regard of his devoted friend / Dwight D. Eisenhower / 1963."
A compelling narrative by one of the twentieth-century's most significant figures, dedicated in turn to one of his closest friends.
