CRUSADE IN EUROPE
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition preceding the trade edition. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. Copy #89 of 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." Owner inscription from 1948 on the blank recto of the limitation page. Near Fine in original acetate which has some foxing and short tears and a Near Fine slipcase with a little wear to the outside edges. Item #018982
Price: $5,000.00