Signed Skinny Wainwright First Edition Book General Wainwright's Story

General Wainwright's Story - SIGNED & INSCRIBED by General Jonathan "Skinny" Wainwright - First Edition, 1946. Wainwright (edited by Robert Considine). Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York. Binding: Original brown cloth, gilt title. First edition of General Wainwright's Story, signed and inscribed by General Jonathan M. Wainwright on the front endpaper using his well-documented personal nickname, Skinny Wainwright. " The inscription reads: "To Alice and Irab - With Love - Skinny Wainwright. Signed examples of Wainwright's work are uncommon; inscriptions using the nickname "Skinny" are especially scarce, and are rarely encountered in first editions of his own wartime memoir. Most known examples bear formal signatures only. This volume also includes period newspaper and printed ephemera laid in, including a clipping reproducing President Franklin D.

Roosevelt's message to General Wainwright on the eve of the surrender of Corregidor, as well as an illustrated dust-jacket artwork fragment. These items appear contemporaneous and likely retained by the original recipient. General Wainwright was the highest-ranking American officer captured during World War II, later awarded the Medal of Honor for his leadership and endurance as a POW.

His memoir remains one of the most important firsthand accounts of Bataan, Corregidor, and Japanese captivity. Cloth shows expected wear at extremities; spine ends rubbed.

Binding remains sound; pages clean and intact. Please inquire for additional photographs.

Inscribed by the author to private individuals; no evidence of modern reproduction or facsimile. Signature consistent with authenticated Wainwright examples.

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