A Near Fine copy of the 1963 Signed First Edition of Dwight Eisenhower's Personal Account of "The White House Years: Mandate for Change, 1953-1956" in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Published by Doubleday & Company in New York. Signed and inscribed by Eisenhower on his personal bookplate. Also included is a rare 1952 Typed letter to Eisenhower's friend Grayson Kirk on his personal letterhead and signed "Ike." Laid in to the front of the book is a block of four six-cent U.S. postage stamps commemorating President Eisenhower along with an engraved cachet cancelled Washington D.C. on day of Eisenhower's inauguration. Copies of the trade edition signed are less common than the well-known limited-edition copies and are coveted for their personal connection. 
Description: (8vo) 650 pages including the Appendix and Index. First Trade Edition in publishers' blue cloth with gilt stamped US Seal to the front and Gilt stamped titles to the spine and with map endpapers. Softening to the spine tips and a small bump to the lower back cover. The unclipped dust jacket with the $6.95 price shows some creasing to the spine ends, edges and upper flaps. A small, closed tear and chip to the back cover. 
 
*Typed Letter (TLS) signed “Ike,” one page, 5.75 x 7.75, personal Office of Dwight D. Eisenhower letterhead, July 18, 1952. This letter dates to a week after Eisenhower was voted as his party's presidential candidate at the Republican National Convention, which was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois, from July 7 to 11, 1952. Eisenhower writes to Grayson and Marion Kirk, in full: "Mamie joins me in sincerest thanks for your heart-warming message received during the Convention in Chicago. We got a real lift from your wire, and it is certainly encouraging to know that warm friends are with us in the campaign ahead." In very good condition, with light toning and staining in the margins. Grayson Kirk (1903-1997) was a political scientist who served as president of Columbia University between 1953 and 1968. In 1951, when Eisenhower took leave to serve as Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Kirk became acting president of the university and later succeeded Eisenhower after he was sworn in as president.