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Lot 382
Sale 1023 - The Library of Jack Charles Davis, Sold to Support Charitable Institutions
May 3, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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1,200
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$1,250
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EISENHOWER, Dwight D. (1890-1969). Report by The Supreme Commander of the combined Chiefs of Staff on the Operations in Europe of the Allied Expeditionary Force 1944 June 6 - 1945 May 8. Washington, D. C.: United States Government Printing Office, [1945].
Folio (220 x 303 mm). Maps. (Occasional creasing.) One-half morocco with blue cloth, spine 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt lettering in 2, others gilt decorated, original illustrated wrappers bound in (front board detached, light wear to extremities). Provenance: Arthur Leonard Ross (d. 1975, bookplate to inside front wrapper).
FIRST EDITION. WITH DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER’S SIGNATURE on a bookplate laid in. Eisenhower's detailed report of D-Day illustrated with maps.