what can i help you with well i've got a world war ii book that was authored and also autographed
by dwight d eisenhower wow really he was in charge of the biggest military operation in
the history of the world ever which is pretty amazing to me i'm assuming it's not a comedy
so far i've gotten through part of it no comedy i came to the pawn shop today to try and sell my
dwight d eisenhower book autographed by eisenhower i purchased the book at an estate sale i would
like to sell the book because i've got my eye on a richard nixon and gerald ford autograph
crusade in europe i like the title did you know much about it it follows him through
his campaign in europe from start to finish and his exploits of what happened during the war
here's a note from president roosevelt appointing ike to command of operation overlord
storming the beaches at normandy okay eisenhower i think is my dad's favorite president because
as far as my dad is concerned basically if you're a lifer in the military you're all right
and if you didn't spend your entire life in the military you're not during world war ii eisenhower
was basically in charge of all the fighting in europe he was the guy in charge of planning the
normandy invasion hearing about d-day from him would be completely different than reading it from
a textbook so it's signed by him yes to well i guess that's pamela bird best wishes dwight yesner
it really becomes eisenhower's rookie card because at the time he signed this he wasn't president yet
he was president of columbia university so it's before he became president of the united states
yeah all right so how much were you looking to get out of it i'm looking for a thousand
maybe um let me call up a friend she's an expert in rare books she'll probably know the signature
and if this is a first edition and all that fun stuff so let me get her down here if everything's
legit um we'll talk money all right thanks i feel fairly confident about it certainly hope that
there is a big payday at the end of this that we can come to an agreement and i can sell the book
rebecca how's it going good i hear you having eisenhower for me the guys usually call me down
here because they don't know a lot about books crusade in europe this is all about world war ii
specifically the european front eisenhower was involved in this from pretty much the beginning
he was the person who contained the divas and that includes people like
patton who didn't want to listen to anyone or general montgomery who is the same way on the
british side it's pretty common in a historical event like this one of the major generals or
participants will write a memoir about it but they're not common signed i have the same book
in the sign limited edition okay what we're going to do is look at the two signatures
one thing that you have to worry about is that eisenhower actually had an auto pen so there
is the possibility in in this time period that he could actually have the autopin sign for him
the nice thing about this though is you have this full inscription here
and since you've got a uniformity of ink with the inscription and the signature
we know it's not autopin great but the other thing that you might worry about
with eisenhower is actually that it could be secretarial so from what i can tell here and here
it's real sweet oh that's great awesome okay so is this like a first edition this a second edition
it is the first edition how do you tell how do you tell
you know it depends on the book with this book it's pretty simple you're just looking
at the copyright date here and you don't have any extra mention of printings okay awesome
so this is first it is a first edition and it is signed these are all good things so what's
it worth well one thing i can tell you just looking at it it does not have the dust jacket
it does not this was originally issued with a dust jacket so it's not considered complete all right
if it had the dust jacket three thousand dollars okay without the jacket this book is worth
1500. half price because of that that's right the book is a collectible needs to be complete
as it was originally issued that means if it had a dust jacket it needs to retain the dust
jacket if it was an original binding it should stay in that binding you're losing a huge part
of its value how much you want for it now well she said 1500 i'm thinking around a thousand
that gives you a little room i'm thinking more like 800 bucks
how about the difference 900
does have eisenhower's signature we know that i know we're still talking about a lot of money
for a book but it's an eisenhower book 850. no i've got to stay with nine it's really unique
you know what i'll i'll go the night i'll go the night all right we got a deal all right
thanks i'll meet you right up front this was a total no-brainer a book written and signed by
a five-star general who later became president i just hit the jackpot you