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1937Best.-Nr. 374289Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1937. Second American Edition. 297pp. frontispiece. 1 vols. 8vo. Light brown cloth with title printed in red on front cover and spine. Fine in publisher's lightly chipped dust jacket with minor wear. Second American Edition. 297pp. frontispiece. 1 vols. 8vo. A scarce second American edition of Hitler's autobiography and political manifesto in one of the best examples we've seen of the rare dust jacket that elicited an official protest from the German government. Despite condemnation of its first American edition from Jewish American groups Houghton Mifflin risked the publication of a second edition lowering the retail price from $3.00 to $2.50 and issuing a newly designed dust jacket. The dust jacket is illustrated with the color scheme of the Weimar Republic and includes a provocative quote from journalist Dorothy Thompson. The design drew a swift formal protest from the German government who demanded that it be replaced by a dust jacket approved by the original German publisher Eher Verlag. Houghton Mifflin refused the request. American journalist and radio broadcaster Dorothy Thompson was the first American journalist expelled from Nazi Germany in 1934 for her depcition of Hitler in her book I Saw Hitler! 1932 Farrar and Rinehart. Her expulsion order was hand delivered by a Gestapo agent and gave her 24 hours to leave the country. Her quote on the back of the dust jacket reads in part: "As a liberal democrat I deprecate every idea in this book. But it is not the function of liberals and democrats to live in a world of illusions." In 1939 Reynal & Hitchcock published the unabridged edition but by then the rest of the world was already at war. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
2008Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall "This book is dedicated to Richard Avedon, Ara Gallant and Giorgio di Sant'Angelo". Volume cartonato, legatura editoriale in tela nera, titoli in bianco al dorso e al piatto anteriore, custodia editoriale, 136 pagine profusamente illustrate in nero e colori con immagini applicate. Esemplare in ottime condizioni. Testo in inglese - english text - box edition. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
Best.-Nr. 9358Black leather with gilt particulars and five raised bands. All edges gilt. Moire endpapers and a silk ribbon. Smyth-sewn binding. A bright clean copy without any previous owners' names affixed bookplates or other defacements. Scarce. 6.25 x 9.5 in Easton Press hardcover
1933Best.-Nr. 3659Germany 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 3 Volumes Complete. Collection of three books and one Western Union telegram detailing that these three books were removed from Hitler's apartment in Munich. The telegram: "To Daniel Longwell Managing Editor - LIFE Magazine - Time and Life Building Rockefeller Center - New York 20 New York / Returned from Europe with three books taken from Hitler Munich apartment containing original repeat original photos and history of rise of Luftwaffe Nazi Party rise and life of Hitler stop Include background material apropos coming war criminal trials if interested combat intelligence officer contact Major S.P. Helms Squadron X La Junta Colorado Army Air Field - Major S.P. Helms." Volumes printed in German and published between 1933 and 1935. Two hardcovers and one oversized softcover. All contain dozens and dozens of tipped-in photographs that are actually copies as originally issued and not originals as noted in the telegram. Die Nachkriegszeit 1918-1934 Herausgegeben Von Den Zigarettenfabriken 1934 - Cigarette book with color photos mounted in large folio format covering the years 1918 to 1934. Orange stiff heavy wrapps with pictorial Nazi image. Pictorial history of the rise of Hitler in Germany. FIRST EDITION. Deutfchland Erwacht Werden Rampf Und Seig Der NSDAP Cigaretten-bilderdienst 1933 - Cigarette book with B/W and color photos mounted. As with previous volume the pictures were provided with cigarettes and you completed your album by pasting them in. Original brown cloth with wear to gilt illustration and title on front cover. A few photos loose but all present. FIRST EDITION. Adolf Hitler - Bilder Aus Dem Leben des Fuhrers Cigaretten-Bilderdienst 1936 - Cigarette album in original orange cloth boards. The most iconic of all cigarette albums produced as part of Hitler's Nazi propaganda during WWII. FIRST EDITION. ALL THREE VOLUMES EXHIBIT SOME WEAR AT EDGES AND SPINES. Bindings a bit shaken overall. Fold-out image in Deutfchland has some wear and a few closed tears. WE CANNOT VERIFY THE INFORMATION IN THE TELEGRAM AND THE BOOKS ARE NOT SIGNED AND/OR MARKED LENDING PROVENANCE TO THE STORY. THEREFORE WE CANNOT GUARANTEE THE BOOKS WERE ORIGINALLY OWNED BY ADOLF HITLER. WE HAVE DETAILED THE COLLECTION AS WE FOUND IT. hardcover
19445704 (1944). Original blank paper wrappers. 8vo. 64 pages. 21 cm. Reprinted in early 1944 for Jewish refugees in Switzerland with some additional notations. In Hebrew and German in parallel columns (with diacritic vowel marks under the Hebrew, and with Yiddish translation between Hebrew). Original 1938 title page, with verso 1944 German title page: Den jüdischen Flüchtlingen in der Schweiz; Zur Feier des [Pesakh]-Festes im Jahre 5704; überreicht vom Schweizerischen Israelitischen Gemeindebund. (For the Jewish Refugees in Switzerland; For the celebration of Pesakh in the year 5704; presented by the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities). Copyright by Lehrberger & Co. of Frankfurt. A European-published hagada from the darkest period of the Holocaust, produced specifically for those feeling the inferno. During 1943 and 1944, the extermination camps were working at a furious rate to kill the hundreds of thousands of people shipped to them by rail from almost every country within the German sphere of influence, and by the spring of 1944, up to 8,000 people were being gassed every day at Auschwitz (USHMM, 2012). Passover 1944 began on April 8, the day that the roundups of the Jews of Carpatho-Ruthenia and northern Hungary started. On April 14, the last day of the Holiday, László Endre & László Baky (German-installed heads of the Ministry of the Interior) and Eichmann made the official decision to deport all the Jews of Hungary. With ten illustrations; an early 19th century German Orthodox Haggadah originally compiled by Wolf Heidenheim in 1822. Published for German-Jewish refugees in Switzerland under the auspices of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities, founded in 1904 to help protect the general interest of Jews in Switzerland; during the second world war, the Federation helped support the refugee community in Switzerland: Prior to and during the Second World War, Switzerland gave refuge to about 23,000 Jewish refugees although the government decided that Switzerland would serve only as a country of transit. These Jews were protected during the Holocaust due to Swiss neutrality. The Jewish refugees, however, did not receive the financial support from the government that non-Jewish refugees received. Many more Jews were prevented from entering, effectively shutting the border. (Jewish Virtual Library; Switzerland). The publishers, Goldschmidt, issued an earlier printing in 1940 (listed in one library on OCLC), no copies of this issue (1944) listed in libraries on oclc. Subjects: Haggada shel Pesah. German-Jewish Refugees - Schweizerischen Israelitischen Gemeindebund. Holocaust. Previous Owner's name on front wrappers, with "Zurich 5" written underneath. Wraps lightly soiled, with small tear at bottom of backstrip; otherwise Very good condition. Rare and important. (HOLO2-104-15)
19471st edition. Portfolio, Folio-size, [4] p., xvi leaves of plates, all illustrations. 32 cm. Text in Polish . 16 duotone watercolors of camp life, each accompanied by a textual description of a paragraph or two in the introduction. SUBJECT(S): Geographic: Oranienburg (Concentration camp) -- Pictorial works. Sachsenhausen (Brandenburg, Germany : Concentration camp) -- Pictorial works. OCLC lists only 3 sets worldwide (Yale, U of Illinois, NANTERRE-BDIC in France), none in New York and None in Poland. Extremely scarce. Some images from this portfolio (not originals, but prints, from this very edition, the same as these) are on display via the Museum of the Jews in Poland (in Warsaw) Former owner's numbers in margins of plates, not affecting images. Plates and introduction in Good Condition; Original portfolio with dramatic color graphic on cover is present, but lacks spine and shows heavy wear. (holo2-125-9)
1938Best.-Nr. 127Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler. German edition printed in 1938 in two volumes by Franz Eher Verlag Munich. A special deluxe edition hardcoverwith the original dustjackets. Unlike the other editions these one was more expensive and better quality paper and materials were used and it was printed in smaller volume of 20000 copies. Very good condition no missing pages. Volume 1 360 pages advertising Volume 2 351 pages. Priority expedited shipping with DHL EXPRESS worldwide. Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher, Munchen hardcover
1940Best.-Nr. 16An extremely rare copy of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler in japanese language. Hardcover. Wartime editiion. Printed in 1940. Illustrated. Excellent condition. Shipping with DHL Express worldwide. hardcover
1939Best.-Nr. 222j3127Berlin Germany: M. Muller & Sohn K.G. Good No dust jacket as issued. First English Edition. Pamphlet. "Members of the Reichstag! When six years ago on this evening tens of thousands of National Socialist fighters marched through the Brandenburg Gate to the light of their torches to express to me their feeling of overwhelming joy and their vows as faithful followers countless anxious eyes all over Germany gazed upon the the beginning of a development the end of which still seemed unknown and unpredictable. I received only a little over a third of all votes cast. The other twenty million were scattered among about 35 other parties. The only thing that united them was their common hatred of our young movement. This united the priests of the Centre Party and Communist atheists the Socialists out to abolish private property capitalists and conservatives. During the long battle of National Socialism for the leadership of the country they had all come together in defence of their interests and had made common cause with Jewry. The complete picture of the extent of the collapse in that period is gradually fading away. It seemed that only a miracle could save Germany. To the Jews and the other enemies of the State however it appeared to be the last flicker of the national power of resistance. They felt that when it had disappeared then they would be able to destroy not only Germany but all Europe as well." - paraphrased from pages 3-4. "During the time of my struggle for power it was in the first instance the Jewish race which only received my prophecies with laughter when I said that I would one day take over the leadership of the State and that I would then among other things settle the Jewish problem. Today I will once more be a prophet: If the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war then the result will not be the bolshevization of the earth and thus the victory of Jewry but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!" - page 42. Text in English. 54 stapled pages. Binding tight. Moderate tanning to contents and covers. Numerous light pencil markings and thoughtful marginalia throughout. Discrete clear tape repairs to covers. A sound vintage example of this historic speech in which some argue Hitler presaged the Holocaust.; 8vo . 1939. M. Muller & Sohn K.G. unknown
1933Best.-Nr. 295742NY: Houghton Miflin 1933. First Edition from Eher edition. Hardcover no dj. good. Abridged and translated by E T S Dugdale 297 pp. new pastedown covers worn lacks dust jacket crown bit frayed hinge started true first edition In America Houghton Mifflin secured the rights to the Dugdale abridgment on 29 July 1933. The only differences between the American and British versions are that the title was translated as My Struggle in the UK and My Battle in America; and that Dugdale is credited as translator in the U.S. edition while the British version withheld his name. No official reason was given for Dugdale's request for anonymity in the British edition.James Barners Hitler's Mein Kampf Houghton Miflin hardcover
1939Signed and generically inscribed by author atop first leaf. Heiden was an implacable long-time opponent of Hitler and was forced to leave Germany for that reason. Here, in the French language, he describes the pogroms of November, 1938. Heiden also wrote what many consider the most authoritative biography of Hitler. 190 pages. Somewhat above-average external wear. Toning to contents. Two ink stamps to first leaf. Binding tender but intact. Kehr and Langmaid 3655. Book
193840 pages. Features: Great cover photo of wild-haired Albert Einstein in leather jacket; Photo of swastika atop smoke stack of New York hospital power plant on the East River between 70th and 71st; Photo of Mr. & Mrs. David Hearst; photo of Pinky Tomlin and his bride; Photo of Joan Bennett wounded on movie set by a bayonet; Great photo of FDR in limo in Gainesville, Georgia surrounded by crowd; Concern over Japanese fishing off Alaska; Photo of Dr. Seyss-Inquart with Hitler; One-page article on Einstein includes photo of his relaxing chair, work desk and Princeton home; Five photos of famous racehorse Man o' War; Nice one-page photo ad for the Chrysler Royal car; Nice one-page, two-color Chesapeake and Ohio ad features Ohio's "Cheese Corridor"; Photo of crowd of Akron Goodrich workers protesting wages; Photo of a 42-passenger 'Ensign' built for Imperial Airways; Handsome color Packard auto ad on back cover features illustration of well-dressed couple. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Articles clipped from pages 15, 16 and 39. One-third of table of contents page has been removed. A worthy vintage copy Book
1973Best.-Nr. 111H4408London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Good in Good dust jacket. 1973. Second Edition. Hardcover. 0297765841 . 746 pages. Index. "This extraordinary document which has for many years been unobtainable presents the authentic record of the secret conversations at Hitler's headquarters from July 1941 to November 1944 taken down on Martin Bormann's instructions. The most significant record of Hitler's mind and character in existence." - dust jacket. "A most remarkable addition to our background knowledge of the Nazi era. undoubtedly authentic. fascinating reading." - Chester Wilmot. Unmarked with light wear to publisher's coarse brown cloth. Binding tight. Moderate wear to price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this fascinating and important reference. Enser p.209 Kehr & Langmaid 754 Rees G 911.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Adolf Hitler Table Talk Martin Bormann . Weidenfeld and Nicolson hardcover
1973746 pages. Index. "This extraordinary document, which has for many years been unobtainable, presents the authentic record of the secret conversations at Hitler's headquarters from July 1941 to November 1944, taken down on Martin Bormann's instructions. The most significant record of Hitler's mind and character in existence." - dust jacket. "A most remarkable addition to our background knowledge of the Nazi era... undoubtedly authentic... fascinating reading." - Chester Wilmot. Unmarked with light wear to publisher's coarse brown cloth. Binding tight. Moderate wear to price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this fascinating and important reference. Enser p.209, Kehr & Langmaid 754, Rees G 911. Book
1954416 pages. Exhaustive bibliography. Footnotes. "Re-examines the record, in order better to appreciate the past and present problems of Europe, political and economic. The career of Hjalmar Schacht happens to be an excellent mirror for those problems: why democracy fell in Germany (as it had in much of the world); why the unspeakable Nazi came to despotic power over one of the most cultured and civilized nations of the world; whether dictatorships are better qualified to deal with the complexities of industrial life; why foreign trade in the post-war world departed so far from the cherished principles of the nineteenth century; how and why war came to Europe and the world in 1939; how the citizen can react to the modern police state; what can be done to remove a modern dictator or whether it is possible at all; whether one major trend of the modern world, class struggle, can be replaced by the other, nationalism; whether 'strong-man-rule' is the proper solution to the 'Bolshevik Danger'; what action can be taken to curb the dominant trend in the economy toward inflation; how should peace-loving powers treat a fanatical dictator - with force or with conciliation. It is a study of these basic problems of modern civilization rather than merely as the study of an individual who sought and obtained world-wide fame that this work was attempted." - Foreword. Includes replica dust jacket preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Former library copy with usual markings. Binding intact. Above-average wear to publisher's red cloth. A worthy reference copy of this important study. Madden p.237, Laska 311, Stachura p.131, Aldcroft & Rodger p.75. Book
1933Best.-Nr. 65755München, Druck: Max Schmidt & Söhne, (1933). Typographisches Plakat auf gelbem Papier (60 x 81 cm).
Best.-Nr. 6New York City: Stackpole Editions 1939. 8vo 669 p. original black cloth stamped in silver. First edition and the first true unexpurgated edition of Mein Kampf published in the United States. Stackpole's issue of Mein Kampf triggered a major legal battle with Houghton Mifflin which had acquired copyright in 1933. Stackpole argued that because Hitler was technically "stateless" having renounced his Austrian citizenship in 1925 before obtaining German citizenship in 1932 he was not covered by U.S. copyright law. Under this theory Stackpole claimed the text was in the public domain and promoted their edition on the basis that they would pay no royalties to Hitler from AI overview. Stackpole eventually lost the lawsuit and was ordered to destroy their remaining inventory after having sold around 12000 copies. As a result the Stackpole edition is uncommon on the market. This is a nice copy with two scuff marks to cloth to front board boards very slightly bowed light soiling to page ends some light scuffing to front page ends; front endpaper lightly soiled; some minor rounding to corners but in all an uncommonly nice copy of a truly scarce item rarely found in this condition. Stackpole Editions hardcover
1927247 pages. Black and white photographic frontis portrait of author. "This is a book written by a German after a war which brought defeat to his country and a great civilized people to a condition of dependence and subordination... The German Inflation can only be understood as part of the general history of the time. May we all learn from the past and emerge from the destructive era of reciprocal hostility into a new constructive period of international well-being." - from Foreward. Chapters include: The Inflation of the War Period; From the Armistice to the Invasion of the Ruhr; From the Invasion of the Ruhr to the Stabilization of the Mark; The Stabilization of the Mark; From Rentenbank to Golddiskontbank; From Currency Crisis to Economic Crisis; The Dawes Plan; The Reconstruction of German Money and Capital Markets; Foreign Credits; International Co-operation. "(Schacht) became one of the directors of the Reichsbank in 1916 and in 1923 became currency commissioner for the Reich. After his economic policies helped reduce German inflation and stabilize the German mark, Schacht was appointed president of the Reichsbank. He collaborated with other prominent figures in economics to form the Young Plan to modify the way that war reparations were paid after Germany's economy was destabilizing under the Dawes Plan. Though on March 7, 1930, six months after the beginning of the Great Depression, he stepped down from the position of Reichsbank Chairman, but returned on March 17, 1933 after Hitler's rise to power." - from wikipedia dot org. Binding intact. Unmarked with average wear. Bright gilt lettering upon black cloth backstrip. Mild foxing to endpapers. A sound copy. Aldcroft & Rodger p.83, Peterson p.367. Book
Best.-Nr. 72826E-140. Very Good. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Published by Reginald Glossop London UK. 1932. 227 pgs. Issued in illustrated stiff-paper wrappers. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Lengthy inscription on half title addressed to "Reich Kanzler Hitler with with compliments of the author." Book includes laid in note on the letterhead of Richard W. Van Wagenen 1923-2003 a former dean of American University's graduate school who retired in 1977 as a World Bank education and training specialist. Note reads: "Liberated from the shelves of a sort of library-closet in Hitler's Chancellory sic in Berlin late July 1945. R. W. VW." Uncommon in its own right this future war novel involving a tunnel under the British Channel would have been very much in keeping with the Aryan ideological model espoused by the Nazi Party. The note suggests the book was taken when the Chancellery was stormed by Allied forces in April 1945 during which time GIs took what souvenirs they could from the Fuhrer's domain. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . paperback
1939Best.-Nr. 542j2764New York City: Stackpole Sons Publishers. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "For thirteen years Adolf Hitler has prevented publication of an uncensored unabridged edition of Mein Kampf outside Germany in English. With the appearance of this volume Hitler's censorship ends and the work which Dorothy Thompson calls 'Hitler's blueprint of world conquest' is at last available to readers everywhere." - dust jacket not included. "This Stackpole edition was translated and printed between December 1938 and February 1939. Houghton Mifflin which believed Stackpole to be violating its copyright sought and obtained an injunction against Stackpole on 9 June 1939. By that time only 12000 copies of the Stackpole edition had been sold. It remains a rare and valuable artifact." - Wikipedia. For a thorough description and analysis of the intriguing and complicated legal fight between Houghton Mifflin and Stackpole and the differences between their versions of this title see 'Hitler's Mein Kampf in Britain & America - A Publishing History 1930-39' by James and Patience Barnes. 4-669 pages. Original black cloth mostly rubbed through along bottom edges much less so to top edges. Quarter-inch diameter perforation to very upper left corner of front free endpaper. Marginal pencil lines erased from 14 pages. Short ink marginal lines to 12 pages. Binding intact. Includes new replica dust jacket preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A rare example of this Stackpole edition.; 8vo . 1939. Stackpole Sons Publishers hardcover
1925Best.-Nr. 168014Munich: Franz Eher 1925-27. Hitler signals his genocidal intent First editions first printings of both volumes of perhaps the most infamous and reviled book of the 20th century a work nevertheless of enormous historical and geopolitical significance; from the library of an early Nazi activist. Part autobiography part manifesto Hitler espouses with neither equivocation nor restraint his extreme anti-Semitism racial prejudice and commitment to violence to achieve political aims. Germany's need for Lebensraum to recapture territories lost at Versailles and purge itself of all internal enemies are all spelled out in detail refuting any arguments that the coming evils of the Nazi regime could not be foreseen. The first volume is in the second issue binding the first having a white spine. Provenance: the half-title of vol. I has the ownership stamp of Doctor Richard Dingeldey of 37 Franz Josefstrasse Munich. An early Nazi party member Dingeldey hosted Hitler for dinner at his Franz Josefstrasse home in October 1923 Ullrich p. 830. He remained active in the party. "Nazi activist Richard Dingeldey. delivered a standard speech on Luther's convictions to numerous Nazi gatherings in the fall of 1925 claiming that 'the life of Luther is our goal'" Hastings p. 162. He then worked in Munich at the pharmaceutical and chemical company Wilhelm Kathe AG. He worked for the board of health under the later Nazi regime and was a leader of their young doctor medical association Jungärzte beim NS-Ärztebund. 2 vols octavo. Frontispiece photographic portrait of Hitler to vol. I. Original red cloth spines and front covers lettered in white top edges red. A few instances of marginal crosses and ticks in vol. I with a list of pencilled page numbers towards end of the same. Spines lightly sunned else sharp copies. Printing and the Mind of Man 415. Derek Hastings Catholicism and the Roots of Nazism 2011; Volker Ullrich Hitler: Volume I 2016. hardcover
1939231, [1] pages. 9.2" x 6.3". Waton (1871-1959) was a Jewish philosopher keenly interested in the works of Marx and Spinoza. In the Foreword, dated 1939, he states "I convinced myself that human society is irresistibly and inevitably moving towards state capitalism and fascism. Further reflection also convinced me that this social transformation would inevitably bring upon the Jews great suffering. How could the Jews face this world situation? This question occupied my mind for the last twelve years. At last I reached the conclusion which I embodied in a program for the Jews. When the Jews declared war against Nazi Germany and fascism (in 1933), I saw that as a suicidal policy. Thus passed more than five years of ever-increasing suffering for the Jews. When the situation became so grave that the Jews themselves began to realize the gravity of the situation, the Spinoza Institute of America asked me to formulate my program." On page 199 he adds "We have to face the fact that the Leader of the German people has no doubt in his mind that the Jewish problem is the centre of all problems, not merely in Germany, but in the world. It is useless to dismiss this as an illusion, because if it is, it demands explanation. But it is no illusion." Brilliant gilt lettering upon front board. Light external wear. Binding tight. Faint patches of soiling to boards. Occasional light pencil marginalia and underlining until page 21. Moderate age-toning to contents. It is left to readers to ponder the impact Waton's program could have had upon twentieth-century history. Book
1933Best.-Nr. 002253Munich: Verlag Franz Eher Nachfolger GmbH 1933 1933. FROM THE DACHAU PRISONER CONCENTRATION CAMP LIBRARY. 1 vol. 175 x 115 mm 7 x 4-1/2 inches including the Inseraten-Anhang advertising supplement at end halftone portrait frontispiece printed in sepia facsimile signature complete. Bound in crude half black cloth mottled boards art-laid endpapers all edges trimmed and plain undoubtedly BOUND BY THE PRISONERS' BINDERY AT DACHAU dated 6 May 1936 on a Kontroll-Zettel control-slip tipped in. Worn scattered light foxing half-title lost a few short tears carefully mended without loss. Reference: 1 Cf Printing and the mind of man 1967 1983 415n. 2 For the prisoners' library at Dachau see Torsten Seela 'Die Lagerbucherei im KZ Dachau' Dachauer Hefte Dachau vii 1991 34-46 and his Bucher und Bibliotheken in nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern: Das gedruckte Wort im antifaschistischen Widerstand der Hftlinge 1992. Provenance: 1 BUCHEREI DES KONZENTRATIONSLAGERS DACHAU Library of Dachau concentration camp with their manuscript Kontroll-Zettel control slip tipped on the upper free endpaper printed lending-rules mounted on the frontispiece recto purple stamp Konzentrationslager Dachau Gefangenenlager in about margins. 2 Liberating soldier 1945; by descent to his widow 3 "a woman in New England"; sold 2006 AN EVIL BOOK SNATCHED FROM THE VERY HEART OF EVIL. This copy belonged originally to the prisoners' library 'Lagerbucherei' at Dachau. Now almost forgotten this unlikely library was installed in Barracks 10 along with the infirmary and a sort of canteen. It was conceived as early as October 1933 by an imprisoned publisher Heinrich Bergmann who somehow obtained permission from the commandant Theodor Eicke to set up a lending-library for 'privileged' prisoners. For his part Eicke supplied some books predictable Nazi fare including presumably the present volume. To these were added some tractates and Jesuit relations seconded from a nearby Roman Catholic library and later literature history geography polonica &c from various sources. Perhaps the library appealed to Eicke's sense of Dachau as a 'model' camp or perhaps it was just a bit of practical penology controlling the many by meting out 'privileges' to the few. In any case the prisoners' library became a center of subversive activity within the camp particularly under its later librarians Kurt Schumacher and Viktor Matejka and by 1945 the library held some 15000 volumes: Some of these were carted off into the old town of Dachau where a former prisoner named Albert Zeitler set up a small lending-library in Augsburgerstrasse and the rest were simply scattered among surviving prisoners or mostly lost. Today these books are so rare on the market that the leading historian of concentration-camp libraries has never heard of one. Munich: Verlag Franz Eher Nachfolger GmbH, 1933 hardcover
