The White House Years: Mandate for Change 1953-1956 [and] Waging Peace 1956-1961 [together with] At Ease: Stories I Tell My Friends. by EISENHOWER, Dwight D - 1963, 1965, 1967

New York: Doubleday,, 1963, 1965, 1967. 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. Doubleday's library (the books not otherwise marked as such) was sold at Doyle Auctions, 11 January 2017, this lot 98. 3 volumes, octavo (237 x 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.