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Official photograph taken by George Tames (358 × 280 mm), copyright notice to verso stating reproduction by the Signal Corps of the US Army. Dark oak frame with conservation acrylic glazing (427 × 351 mm). Slight cockling, inscription a little faded but still clearly legible, very good. £1,500 [158157] 39 EISENHOWER, Dwight D. The White House Years: Mandate for Change 1953–1956; [together with] Waging Peace 1956–1961; [and] At Ease: Stories I Tell My Friends. New York: Doubleday, 1963–65–67 the publisher’s own copies First editions of Eisenhower’s memoirs, the copies of the publisher Nelson Doubleday, Jr. (1933–2015), specially and handsomely bound for his personal library in uniform brown morocco. Doubleday were Eisenhower’s publishers throughout his career, beginning with his war memoirs Crusade in Europe in 1948, a huge commercial success on which a lifelong and happy working relationship was built. The towering Second World War general and eventual president was much sought after by other publishing firms, and Doubleday supplied Eisenhower with secretaries, researchers, and other support to maintain their relationship. This service and attentiveness had a notable impact on Eisenhower’s writings. The three volumes here comprise Eisenhower’s two volumes of presidential memoirs, with At Ease , his subsequent discursive memoirs. 3 volumes, octavo (237 × 159 mm). Contemporary brown morocco for the publisher Nelson Doubleday, Jr., spines lettered in gilt, endpapers from original cloth preserved. Housed in individual brown morocco leather-entry slipcases. Other than a few spots of very minor rubbing in fine condition. £3,000 [116984]
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38 EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Photograph inscribed to a Republican senator. [1953] a notable portrait presented to a prominent early supporter Inscribed by the president “For Senator William A. Purtell, with best wishes and warm regard from his friend Dwight D. Eisenhower”. This appealing image of a pensive Eisenhower was taken in the White House by renowned Capitol Hill photographer George Tames as Eisenhower announced the truce ending the Korean War. Purtell (1897–1978) served as Republican Senator for Connecticut in 1952 and from 1953 to 1959. He was one of the earliest Connecticut Republicans to support Eisenhower’s run for the presidency. In turn Purtell’s success in the November 1952 Connecticut senatorial election rode on the back of the strong public support for Eisenhower in the simultaneous presidential election; Purtell allied himself closely with Eisenhower’s campaign platform. “A strong supporter of President D. Eisenhower’s policies, Senator Purtell was also a staunch American who liked to say: ‘we have the finest country, the finest system of society and the finest government in the world’” ( New York Times obituary). The photographer George Tames (1919–1994) worked for the New York Times on Capitol Hill and in Washington from 1945 to 1985, taking many shots which became iconic. This image would later become familiar to millions of Americans through its use on the 6 cent stamp, issued in 1970.
All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk
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